Shiba Inu opened 2025 at $0.00002113 and held above $0.00001 for nine months, but on Oct. 10 it fell to $0.0000085 amid a flash crash. It is at $0.000007297, down 2.9% daily and 10.88% weekly; to erase a zero, SHIB must clear $0.0000095 and reclaim $0.00001 as support.

Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson posted "a storm is coming" on December 20, 2025 alongside Midnight branding, sparking speculation around the so-called "new ADA" project. The associated NIGHT token recently traded at $0.09324 with weekly gains of 43.22%, a market cap of $1.54B and 24-hour volume of $5.56B, giving a striking 357.73% volume-to-market-cap ratio.

By late December 2025, listed cryptocurrencies climbed to nearly 29 million, up from fewer than 6 million at the year's start. The surge added well over 20 million tokens in twelve months as issuance rates hit tens of thousands per day and regularly surpassed one million per month. Most new assets struggled to gain liquidity or lasting relevance.

In 2025, Ripple unlocked roughly 12 billion XRP from escrow under its programmed schedule, relocking about 700 million per month. That left around 300 million monthly outside escrow, adding near 3.6 billion XRP to circulating supply. At an XRP price of $1.90, the added supply equals about $6.8 billion.

Chainlink's LINK hovered near $12.5 as buyers defended support amid a cautious market tone. On December 20, a new wallet withdrew 199,520 LINK from Binance; the next day it pulled another 246,259 LINK, totaling 445,779 LINK. Chainlink's TVS reached $46.03 billion, up 2.43% month over month, while MACD and RSI showed short-term weakness.

Canton Network's CC token climbed 36% in the last 24 hours, with trading volume up 307% as the price broke above local resistance. Since Thursday, 18 December, CC has gained 54.3% and flipped the $0.079–$0.082 zone into support while its 12-hour market structure turned bullish. A potential retest of the $0.01 support and a drop below $0.095 are seen as key levels for traders watching the current uptrend.

Bitcoin Munari will conclude its BTCM presale on December 23 before listing the token on the public market on December 28. The team advanced this schedule after completing internal launch milestones ahead of time, keeping the fixed supply at 21 million BTCM and moving initially as a Solana SPL token with a later Layer-1 transition planned. The final presale round runs at a fixed price of $0.015 and includes an allocation without vesting, with remaining tokens reserved for validators, liquidity, the core team, and ecosystem growth.

On 21 December 2025, XRP exchange-traded funds had already accumulated about $1.12 billion in assets under management during a broadly weaker crypto market. Asset managers argue this trajectory differs from Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, with institutions testing XRP for its perceived infrastructure role and diversification potential rather than pure cycle-driven speculation.