On December 15, 2025, Ripple Labs' Managing Director for Middle East & Africa, Reece Merrick, underscored South Africa as a strategic market for the company amid rapid regulatory advances. He noted that the FSCA had received 512 CASP license applications and approved 300 by December 2025, shaping a more regulated ecosystem that could support Ripple's partnerships, including its custody collaboration with Absa Bank. Merrick also pointed to a 52% surge in Sub-Saharan Africa transactions to $205 billion between July 2024 and June 2025 as evidence of growing regional crypto adoption.

On December 15, a Form 8-K showed Strategy acquired 10,645 BTC between December 8 and December 14, spending $980.3 million at an average price of $92,098, funded via equity and preferred stock offerings. The firm's holdings rose to 671,268 BTC, and it recently set up a $1.44 billion cash reserve to cover dividend and debt interest obligations.

As Ethereum trades above $3,000, the Rainbow Chart projects that by January 1, 2026, ETH will likely remain below its most euphoric valuation zones, with indicative ranges spanning from under $1,000 to over $22,000. At press time, Ethereum was around $3,155, up about 1.7% over the last 24 hours and less than 1% higher on the week. Based on the asset's current position in the "Still Cheap" band, the model highlights a plausible medium scenario of roughly $2,500 to $5,200 by that date.

Updated on December 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM UTC, Oobit integrated Plasma, a stablecoin-focused blockchain infrastructure, to enable USD₮ spending via its DePay layer across a network of more than 100 million merchants. Users can pay from self-custody wallets like Phantom, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, and Binance Wallet, with negligible fees and deep USD₮ liquidity.

PEPENODE’s presale has entered its final 24 days, with the project raising over $2.3 million and pricing the token at $0.0011968. The Mine-to-Earn meme coin pairs a gamified mining system with staking yields of up to 554%, and more than 1.4 billion tokens are already staked.

Tesla's long-serving directors realized more than $3 billion from legacy option awards as shares surged. The board halted new stock grants in 2020 and froze compensation in 2021 amid litigation. Reported pay from 2018–2024 remained far above peers, while a spokesperson said directors attended 58 meetings in 2024.

Rocket Lab stock advanced in premarket at 7:29 AM EST on December 15, 2025, to $62.80, up $1.31 or 2.13% from the prior close of $61.49. The move followed the company's first dedicated JAXA mission, RAISE And Shine, which lifted off from New Zealand on December 14 and deployed the RAISE-4 satellite.

MANTRA plans to upgrade its OM token to MANTRA on 19 January 2026 with a 1:4 non-dilutive split at target block 11,888,888. On-chain OM holders on MANTRA Chain will be converted automatically, while off-chain EVM holders must migrate to avoid stranded balances. The upgrade is designed to simplify tokenomics, support governance Proposal 26, and strengthen the project's institutional positioning.