Dogecoin’s trading volume surged 61% to $1.68 billion ahead of today’s Federal Reserve rate decision, as the memecoin traded within a narrow $0.131–$0.156 range. With markets pricing a 90% chance of a 25 bps cut, traders are positioning for potential volatility around Chair Jerome Powell’s commentary on the 2026 policy path.

XRP exchange-traded funds have recorded 16 consecutive days of net inflows since Nov. 13. Aggregate assets have surpassed $1 billion, with $944.13 million attributed to products from Canary Capital, Grayscale, Bitwise and Franklin Templeton. 21Shares, CoinShares and WisdomTree are expected to launch XRP ETFs next, expanding institutional access.

Shiba Inu’s spot trading volume on U.S. exchange Kraken jumped 2,394.51% over the past week as traders positioned around the token ahead of potential market catalysts, CoinGlass data show. SHIB is trading near $0.000008513 with weekly gains, while analysts point to shifting bid/ask dynamics and a possible accumulation phase for altcoins despite ongoing caution in the market.

XRP Ledger validators face a critical deadline to upgrade to rippled version 2.6.2 within approximately two weeks. Failure to complete the update may result in nodes being amendment-blocked from the network. The release introduces the fixDirectoryLimit amendment and addresses a bug related to Batch transaction failures.

Three additional XRP exchange-traded funds are preparing to launch in the United States. 21Shares, CoinShares, and WisdomTree will debut their XRP ETF products following the recent launches of Grayscale and Franklin Templeton spot ETFs this week. Binance XRP reserves have declined to 2.7 billion tokens since October, with over 300 million XRP withdrawn since Oct. 6, according to CryptoQuant data.

Binance will delist 12 cryptocurrency margin trading pairs on December 4 at 6:00 a.m. UTC. The affected pairs include WAXP/BTC, SXP/BTC, ONT/BTC, ID/BTC, ZRX/BTC, CHR/BTC, ENJ/BTC, ONG/BTC, POWR/BTC, AGLD/BTC, and UMA/BTC across Cross Margin and Isolated Margin platforms. The exchange will close user positions, perform automatic settlement, and cancel all pending orders during the delisting process.

Asset manager Bitwise will launch its spot Dogecoin ETF on November 26 under the ticker BWOW. Grayscale's GDOG ETF, which began trading November 25 on NYSE Arca as the first U.S. Dogecoin exchange-traded product, recorded $1.4 million in first-day volume, according to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas.

Cardano faces three major milestones this month. Midnight blockchain will launch its NIGHT token as a Cardano native asset on December 8. Coinbase Derivatives will begin offering 24/7 trading for Cardano monthly futures starting December 5, with perpetual-style futures launching December 12.

XRP futures trading volume on Bitmex surged 2,668% to $100.57 million within 24 hours, data show. The spike coincides with multiple U.S. XRP ETF launches, including Bitwise's debut recording $107.6 million in inflows and $25.7 million in trading volume on its first day. XRP fell below $2 on Friday for the first time since October 10, dropping to $1.81.