Shiba Inu (SHIB) traded at $0.00000711, down 0.2% over 24 hours, with weekly losses above 10% following a year-to-date decline near 70% and its first weekly death cross. An AI model forecasts an average $0.0000072933 on the first day of 2026, about 2.6% higher, with scenarios ranging from $0.00000705 to $0.00000768.

By late December 2025, an investor who placed $1,000 evenly into Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and silver at the start of the year would see the portfolio grow to roughly $1,505. Bitcoin hovered near $87,182 and Ethereum around $2,928.34, both posting year-to-date losses, while gold near $2,928.34 and silver around $72 delivered strong gains. The overall return was mainly driven by precious metals, offsetting the negative performance of the cryptocurrencies.

ETH trades at $2,957 at press time, down more than 3% over 24 hours but up 0.28% for the week. According to OpenAI's ChatGPT, the most likely outcome for January 1, 2026 is around $3,200, with a base case between $3,000 and $3,300, upside toward the $4,000 area, and downside risk toward $2,500.

On December 23, on-chain analytics firm Santiment reported that XRP social sentiment had turned sharply negative even as the token's price stabilized near recent lows around $1.90. Historically, such fear-zone readings and contrarian sentiment extremes around XRP have often aligned with local market bottoms and subsequent rebounds toward key resistance levels such as $2 and the psychological $3 area, although broader crypto market conditions remain a critical factor.

According to cryptocurrency analyst Ali Martinez, a December X post outlines a cycle-based scenario where Bitcoin, after peaking near $126,000, could face a ~70% drawdown toward $37,000–$38,000, with a possible low around October 2026. BTC was $89,506 at press time, up 1.7% in 24 hours, and below its 50-day and 200-day SMAs.

According to ChatGPT, Ethereum is favored over Solana for 2026, with the AI model focusing on value capture, institutional alignment, and evolving layer-2 economics rather than raw activity. It highlights maturing rollups, rising blob-space demand, and constrained issuance for ETH, while noting year-to-date prices of $3,040 for ETH (down almost 9%) and $126 for SOL (down 33%) as of press time.

In 2025, Ripple unlocked roughly 12 billion XRP from escrow under its programmed schedule, relocking about 700 million per month. That left around 300 million monthly outside escrow, adding near 3.6 billion XRP to circulating supply. At an XRP price of $1.90, the added supply equals about $6.8 billion.

Ripple’s dispute with the SEC concluded in 2025, preserving Judge Analisa Torres’s earlier findings on XRP’s secondary‑market trading. Under the final framework, Ripple agreed to a $125 million civil penalty tied to past institutional sales. XRP briefly rallied into the $3 range before hovering near $1.93 amid mixed broader market conditions.

In 2025's volatile crypto market, ChatGPT was asked to design a $1,000 portfolio for 2026 that balances liquidity, infrastructure, and growth potential. The model allocated $250 to Bitcoin and $200 to Ethereum, with the remaining funds spread across Ondo Finance, Chainlink, Celestia, Render, Kaspa, and Arbitrum. The construction favors projects tied to tokenization, scalability, and compute-heavy use cases rather than purely narrative-driven assets.