Dogecoin has lagged the broader crypto market in the current bull cycle, recording the weakest year-to-date performance among the top 10 coins while several smaller meme tokens have rallied. Analysts highlight five alternatives—Fartcoin, Pepe, Pippin, Maxi Doge, and Pepenode—which feature low to mid caps, high trading volumes or presale inflows, and in some cases staking rewards or on-chain activity that could support stronger upside into 2026. These projects span Solana- and Ethereum-based ecosystems and are being accumulated by so-called smart money investors looking for higher risk-reward opportunities.

Solana has been subjected to a distributed denial-of-service attack peaking at nearly 6 terabits per second, reportedly the fourth-largest incident ever recorded against a distributed system, yet its network continued processing transactions without disruption. While validators absorbed the week-long surge in traffic, on-chain indicators now point to shrinking liquidity and persistent realized losses, with analysts describing the current phase as a full liquidity reset that could precede the next market cycle.

CME Group will introduce real-time and daily reference pricing indices for Hedera’s HBAR on December 29 via the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Market Data feed. The rollout adds regional benchmarks and a live index updating about once per second; HBAR was at $0.1135 after a 5.32% 24-hour decline.

On Monday, 15 December 2025, Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER) reported $29.5 million raised in its token presale. The project positions an SVM-powered execution layer alongside Bitcoin's base chain, keeping BTC as settlement while pushing transactions off-chain; HYPER is priced at $0.013425 for the next five hours before the presale's next phase.

As 2026 approaches, this overview highlights Liquidchain, Zcash, and Bittensor as projects with notable technical and market developments. Liquidchain's Layer-3 design and a presale price of $0.01255 stand out, while Zcash faces mid-December ETF uncertainty alongside protocol upgrades. Bittensor completed its first halving, reducing daily issuance from 7,200 to 3,600 TAO amid rising institutional participation.

According to on-chain data from Ember, a large AI Agent-focused wallet has exited a basket of agent tokens bought for $31.12M, receiving just $2.57M and realizing a loss of about $28.54M. Individual positions in AIXBT, FAI, NFTXBT, POLY, BOTTO and MAICRO dropped between 84% and 99% as the whale's sell orders hit thin order books.

U.S. spot XRP ETFs have notched 30 consecutive days of net inflows since launch, according to Coin Bureau, adding about $990.9 million and taking net assets to around $1.18 billion within a month. By contrast, Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs have recently posted outflows, highlighting shifting investor preferences toward XRP's utility-focused exposure.

MYX Finance’s token climbed about 8% in the last 24 hours, breaking above the $3 and $3.45 resistance bands and briefly hitting $3.9 on 15 December. While spot volumes and price structure turned bullish, derivatives data showed falling Open Interest and negative funding, suggesting the rally above $3.7 could have been a short squeeze and may face heightened volatility.