XRPL developer Bird (@Bird_XRPL) said on X that XRP's hourly chart is coiling into a contracting triangle and could break "before the end of the week," with a measured upside objective near $2.69. He linked the setup to a broader "risk-on" tone in equities and strength in the Russell 2000. At press time, XRP traded around $2.06.

Keyrock, using data visualized with Dune, has released a “12 Charts to Watch in 2026” dashboard pairing live crypto market datasets with explicit forecasts for next year. The report highlights prediction markets, tokenized RWAs, x402 payments, onchain vaults, derivatives depth, buybacks, Solana MEV, Zcash privacy, Ethereum blobs, card spending, spot BTC ETFs, and stablecoin funding as key indicators of whether trading, issuance, payments, and funding are becoming more institutional. It also notes the total crypto market cap at $3.25 trillion at press time.

In early 2026, Bitcoin reclaimed $96,000. According to Glassnode's Week On-chain report, the move has run into a $93K–$110K long-term holder cost basis band formed during April to July 2025, while $98.3K is highlighted as the short-term holder line-in-the-sand. The note also warns that losing the True Market Mean near ~$81k could tilt risk toward deeper downside.

CryptoQuant contributor Darkfost reports Binance's Bitcoin futures open interest topped $15B on October 6, then fell more than 31% to about $10B as futures-led selling eased. He views the drop and an OI slide below the 180‑day average as a deleveraging signal, while Net Taker Volume has cooled to –$51M from a –$489M monthly peak. BTC last traded at $95,131.

In a Jan. 10 newsletter, analyst Will Taylor from CryptoinsightUK outlined a potential final long entry for XRP below its current support, contingent on Bitcoin forming a double-bottom-style retest that pulls major altcoins into deeper liquidity areas. Taylor's preferred buying zone for XRP sits around $1.90 to $1.82, while his minimum price target stands at $3.40, extending to $4.40 in the medium term and $8-$12 over the long run. At the time of writing, XRP was trading near $2.05, with Taylor noting that daily RSI conditions could still allow one more downside washout before a broader uptrend resumes.

Dogecoin has risen about 17% from its December 31 low, with analyst Cantonese Cat highlighting a clear shift in how the coin trades around its daily Bollinger Bands. Price has moved from persistent pressure near the lower band to the upper half of the range, with DOGE recently closing around $0.1405 above a 20‑day basis near $0.1348. On higher timeframes, the analyst frames the structure as a Wave 2 correction between Fibonacci levels at roughly $0.1177 and $0.1542, with multiple upside extensions mapped out. The key near term focus is whether DOGE can hold above the daily basis line and eventually clear the upper band region near $0.1564 while trading around $0.13674 at press time.

In 2025, Ripple carried out about $2.45 billion in acquisitions over seven months, which Digital Ascension Group CEO Jake Claver argues are designed to build an "Amazon of financial infrastructure" with XRP and Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin at the settlement core. He links major moves such as the $1.25 billion purchase of prime broker Hidden Road, the roughly $200 million Rail deal, the $1 billion GTreasury buyout and the Palisade acquisition into an end-to-end institutional platform he says Ripple now brands as "Ripple 1." At press time, XRP was trading at $2.10.

According to a Jan. 8 video analysis by crypto analyst Kevin (@Kev Capital TA), Bitcoin's weekly hash ribbons flipped back to a buy signal. He cited a 84% historical hit rate across 19 prior weekly buy signals and outlined a late December capitulation followed by a buy, with another unconfirmed capitulation this week. At press time, Bitcoin traded at $91,009.

On Jan. 7, crypto analyst Quantum Ascend shared an X video arguing Cardano (ADA) is nearing the end of a multi‑month correction resembling 2020, with a "lower trendline reset" and weekly signals turning. He outlined upside levels at $5 and $10 once the ABCDE structure completes. ADA was $0.3925 at press time.