According to the article, SOL dropped 4% in the past hour to about $127, down 7% over the week and 9.5% for the month. Farside Investors reported $16.6 million of inflows into Solana ETFs on Tuesday December 9 and $35 million across last week. CoinShares places year-to-date Solana fund inflows at $3.39 billion.

On December 14, 2025, Ali Martinez flagged a TD Sequential buy signal for Cardano's ADA after the count printed a 9 near $0.37, stating that holding this level could open a path to $0.54. The analysis also notes RSI rising toward 50 and MACD at a pivotal threshold, with the mapped pattern implying up to a 380% move toward $180 if a breakout materializes.

J.P. Morgan has introduced a $100 million tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, expanding its activity on public blockchains after arranging a $50 million commercial paper issuance on Solana. The new My OnChain Net Yield Fund (MONY) invests in U.S. Treasuries and fully collateralized repos, with tokenized shares held in investors' blockchain addresses and accessed via Morgan Money.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins, speaking at an SEC Crypto Task Force roundtable, warned that expanding government oversight could turn blockchain and crypto systems into a financial surveillance tool. He argued that treating every wallet as a broker and every transaction as reportable risks creating a financial panopticon, and called for a regulatory framework that protects lawful activity and individual privacy while still allowing innovation.

XRP continues to attract institutional capital, with Spot XRP ETFs posting 19 consecutive days of inflows and $20.17 million added on Friday. Cumulative inflows stand at $990.91 million and AUM is $1.18 billion, while Spot Ethereum ETFs saw $19.41 million of outflows last week. Despite upbeat sentiment, XRP's price remains near $2, highlighting a disconnect between demand and spot performance.

On December 15, Bitcoin extended its recent pullback while shares of Strategy (MSTR) dropped 7.29% to $163.55 on heavy trading volume. During the second and third quarters of 2025, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, which oversees about $284 billion in assets, increased its MSTR position to roughly 0.10% of the company, valued at around $113.8 million, even as the stock remained highly correlated with Bitcoin's volatility.

The SEC's crypto task force convened its sixth roundtable on Monday, bringing regulators together with industry representatives to examine financial surveillance and user privacy. Commissioner Hester Peirce argued that crypto is prompting a reassessment of financial privacy, while participants from Zcash, the Blockchain Association and the Crypto Council for Innovation weighed in on policy implications.

On December 11, 2025, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju said memecoin markets are "dead" as their altcoin share fell to 3.4% from a 10.9% peak in November 2024. Despite bearish sentiment, Pepe's chart shows a potential triple-bottom setup with a $0.0000049 neckline, a measured 75% target at $0.0000075, and, if conditions improve, scope toward $0.0000165.