Bitcoin has hovered around $89,000–$90,000, well below the October peak near $126,000. Samson Mow says Dec. 26 matters more than recent candles, as the December options expiry with heavy call interest between $100,000 and $118,000 and put clusters around $85,000–$90,000 could unlock a larger move.

Bloomberg Intelligence senior macro strategist Mike McGlone has likened the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index in 2025 to the Dow Jones in 1929, suggesting Bitcoin could be entering a purge phase rather than a brief pause. He highlights that Bitcoin is only about 5% lower in 2025 through Dec. 14 and warns that this resilience, alongside a Bitcoin-to-gold ratio that has fallen about 40% this year, might conceal the risk of a deeper correction toward previous cycle levels.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is currently reacting to leverage rather than sentiment, with key pain points mapped by CoinGlass. Longs face the most stress near $0.00777 and shorts near $0.0086, while price trades around $0.00816. A decline under 5% could liquidate longs, whereas upward pressure needs more than 5% to impact shorts.

ETFs holding XRP have accumulated $1.18 billion, equal to 0.98% of circulating supply, while price hovers near $2. Shiba Inu derivatives showed a roughly 3,000% liquidation skew favoring long wipeouts. JP Morgan introduced its My OnChain Net Yield fund on Ethereum’s Base network, with a $1 million minimum and a $100 million initial allocation.

In late 2025, analyst Ali Martinez points out that Dogecoin's monthly chart is sliding back to price areas last seen in 2024, raising the risk of a deeper decline. If selling pressure pushes DOGE under $0.10, the next key zone sits near $0.062, which would effectively add a zero to the meme coin's price. The loss of support in the $0.16-$0.18 band has turned that range into resistance, leaving little visible backing between current levels and the lower targets.

As the week closes, XRP trades near $2.018 while drawing a vague short-term price comment from YoungHoon Kim, who is known as the world's highest IQ holder. Cardano hovers around $0.37 with a TD Sequential buy signal pointing to potential gains toward $0.46 and $0.54, and its ecosystem sees intense activity around the new NIGHT token. Over the same period, Shiba Inu's market cap slides from $4.97 billion to $4.86 billion, erasing roughly $110 million as volume and demand cool.

Midnight's NIGHT token began trading with more than $1 billion in 24-hour volume and a market cap above $1 billion, outpacing XRP by turnover on Bybit. On December 14, 2025, Charles Hoskinson called the $1 billion volume "absolutely remarkable," while the token traded around $0.069 and Bybit's share of turnover exceeded $650 million.

As the Federal Reserve resumed buying Treasuries and expanded its balance sheet, Peter Schiff argued that the market response exposed Bitcoin's weakness as a supposed inflation hedge. He highlighted that gold gained more than $50 to move back above $4,325, silver traded above $64, and mining stocks advanced, while Bitcoin fell alongside other risk assets instead of attracting safe-haven capital. Citing Bitcoin's drop of over 30% from its October peak near $120,000 and its subsequent technical rebound, Schiff claimed the market is no longer treating BTC as "digital gold" amid renewed quantitative easing.

Adam Back, a veteran cryptographer often cited as a top Satoshi candidate, highlighted that Bitcoin's 200-week moving average is now above $56,000, arguing it points to a rising price floor. BTC is attempting to break $90,000. $82,000 and $80,600 have capped recent pullbacks, while $74,110 has not been retested since the November drop.