Toncoin climbed nearly 10% over the past week as buyers returned after a mid-month dip, with RSI strengthening and MACD turning bullish. The move aligned with Telegram launching a self-custodial wallet for U.S. users, enabling in-app send, swap, and storage. DeFi TVL sat around $85 million and stablecoin supply near $960 million, signaling active usage but lagging liquidity.

Analyst Ali Martinez has outlined how XRP could slide toward $0.80, citing several on-chain indicators. He points to a sharp drop in daily active addresses to about 38,500 and recent whale selling of roughly 40 million tokens as signs of fading interest and weaker confidence. Martinez adds that losing the $1.77 support level could open the way to the next major demand zone near $0.80, with XRP trading around $1.86 at the time of his analysis.

Chiliz [CHZ] posted sharp gains, with CoinMarketCap showing a 16.7% rise in 24 hours and 25.6% over the week, while Coinalyze reported Open Interest up 66% in 24 hours and expanding from $12 million to $33 million since 19 December. After structure shifts on 9 and 19 December, price now approaches the $0.05 barrier.

The US Senate Banking Committee aims to hold a January 15 markup for the CLARITY Act, a wide‑ranging digital asset bill that stalled in 2025 amid disputes over DeFi, token definitions, and stablecoin yield treatment. Ahead of the session, traders are repositioning around ETH and SOL, while prediction markets and institutional staking flows reflect rising expectations that lawmakers could finally advance a federal framework for crypto assets.

On December 27, the Flow network suffered a major exploit that allowed attackers to mint a large volume of tokens, triggering a rapid response from Binance to freeze associated funds on its platform. The incident coincided with a sharp drop of about 40% in FLOW's value and, as of December 31, 2025, the token trades at $0.09 after a 48.95% weekly decline. Market data show Flow's capitalization around $142.64 million and a 43.73% fall in 24-hour trading volume to $24.57 million, while community figures have called on validators to pause transactions until a remediation plan is clarified.

Franklin Templeton's head of digital assets recently described XRP as a core component for improving cross-border payment efficiency, highlighting the XRP Ledger's real-time, low-cost settlement for large institutional transfers. Since mid-October, spot XRP ETFs have attracted $1.07 billion in inflows and Franklin Templeton's own fund has posted $28.6 million in weekly volume, while analysts watch the $3.00–$3.05 resistance zone as a key level after XRP’s rally from roughly $0.50 to about $3.50 between November 2024 and July 2025.

Standard Chartered's digital assets research head Geoff Kendrick projects that XRP could reach $8 by the end of 2026, implying roughly a 330% gain from current levels and a new high above its prior $3.84 peak. The outlook is tied to clearer US regulation, growing institutional access via XRP ETFs with about $1.27 billion in assets, and Ripple's expanding payment network. Analysts also highlight tightening on-chain supply and a potential technical breakout around the $1.88 level, with XRP recently trading near $1.86.

At press time, Ethereum trades around $2,970 after gaining close to 2% over the past week. Analysts highlight $4,800 as a key barrier, with scenarios pointing to $5,000 on a daily breakout and a potential path toward $8,500 if resistance gives way. Short interest has eased while traders track support at $2,800 and nearby inflection levels.