XRP is finishing December 2025 down about -13.44%, trading near $1.8653 on the monthly chart while the Bollinger midband sits around $1.8193. If the monthly close holds above roughly $1.82, the upper band near $3.60 becomes the next upside reference; a close below would restore downside levels.

On Dec. 24, 2025, a long-inactive Ethereum premine address holding 2,000 ETH was reactivated after 10.4 years, with the stash's value rising from $620 in 2015 to $5.86 million. On-chain data show a sequence of test and bulk transfers, and traders are watching whether the remaining 401 ETH heads to exchanges during the thin holiday trading period.

On Dec. 24, 2025, XRP community figure BearableGuy123 resurfaced with a "589"-themed image and a 2026 message. Upbit recorded three deposits totaling 51,231,999,673 SHIB within roughly eight hours, and Bitcoin's monthly Bollinger Bands show price under the midband with the lower band near $52,187.

The XRP Ledger's AlphaNet has implemented Dilithium-based, quantum-resistant cryptography, enabling developers to create new accounts and conduct transactions secured by the upgraded scheme. Jameson Lopp has estimated that a comparable transition across the Bitcoin network, including nodes, wallets and stored coins, could require at least 5 to 10 years, underscoring a widening technological gap in post-quantum readiness between the two chains.

Cardano's derivatives positioning has turned strongly bullish as 69% of Binance's top traders are now long ADA, with the long-short account ratio near 2.23 and the positional ratio around 1.33, according to platform data. At the same time, Charles Hoskinson's Midnight (NIGHT) asset recently reached a $1.25 billion market capitalization after a 39% weekly price jump and over $1.6 billion in 24-hour trading volume.

Over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass data cited in the report, total crypto liquidations reached $227.93 million across 79,525 traders, while XRP showed $10,090 in liquidations entirely from long positions and zero on shorts. The absence of forced short closures stands out in a session dominated by leverage reduction, suggesting either limited short exposure or that sellers chose to close positions manually before hitting liquidation thresholds.

On Tuesday, veteran trader Peter Brandt revisited Bitcoin's history of at least 80% pullbacks after parabolic advances, while also projecting the next bull market peak for the asset in September 2029. XRP has reclaimed turnover leadership over Cardano's Midnight (NIGHT) after posting higher daily trading volume, and Shiba Inu (SHIB) is edging toward its so-called Black Friday support zone at $0.00000678. Across the market, Bitcoin trades in the mid-$80,000 range as traders watch defined upside and downside targets for BTC, XRP, NIGHT and SHIB.

CoinShares' latest weekly report shows XRP-based products attracting $62.9 million of inflows, a 34% increase from the prior week's $46.9 million and the largest positive figure among major assets. Over the same period, digital asset investment products recorded $952 million in outflows, with Bitcoin and Ethereum bearing the brunt, while U.S. XRP spot ETFs added $13.21 million in net inflows on Dec. 19 and pushed cumulative net inflows to $1.07 billion. XRP's price hovered around $1.93 on Monday, as institutions continued shifting capital away from Bitcoin and Ethereum toward XRP exposure.

After reaching the $120,000-$125,000 range in October 2025 and then dropping to the mid-$80,000s, Bitcoin is trading around $87,700 as traders eye profit-taking into January. Historical monthly data show January has often delivered positive returns for BTC, with notable gains in 2020, 2023 and 2025, even though some past years posted steep losses. The analysis suggests that if BTC enters January below its 2025 high and under the $90,000 mark, the greater risk could be exiting too late rather than too early.