On January 8, 2026, analyst Ali Martinez shared UTXO Realized Price Distribution charts indicating Dogecoin faces scarce on-chain support near $0.14, with the next major accumulation area around $0.073. As the crypto market enters its first significant 2026 drawdown, DOGE risks losing $0.10 and momentum above $0.12.

On Tuesday, December 6, the Shiba Inu community was warned about a new wallet address spoofing scam that targets active SHIB wallets by mimicking past transaction addresses. The scheme uses tiny dust transfers from look‑alike addresses so victims may later copy the wrong address from their history and send funds directly to scammers. Holders are urged to verify the entire wallet address before each transfer and avoid reusing addresses from random incoming transactions.

On Jan. 5, 2026, Ripple executed a single 300 million XRP transfer valued at about $652.64 million to an unidentified wallet, coinciding with heightened activity in a broadly bullish crypto market. As XRP outpaced Bitcoin and Ethereum in daily gains and reclaimed the $2.2 level, traders are now watching whether the token can advance toward the $2.5 price target amid ongoing speculation about Ripple's intentions.

On Jan. 3, XRP reclaimed a $122,000,000,000 market capitalization and surpassed BNB to become the fourth-largest crypto by size, according to CoinMarketCap. Trading volume jumped over 140% to $4.14 billion, while price gains reached about 5.79% near the $2 mark. On Jan. 2, XRP ETFs recorded roughly $13.59 million of inflows.

On Saturday, Jan. 3, Samson Mow argued that Bitcoin's hard-capped supply of 21 million coins cannot be altered or created through any form of transmutation. His comments followed a fusion research team's claim that future reactors could convert mercury into gold at industrial scale, potentially making gold's scarcity adjustable and reinforcing Bitcoin's appeal as a mathematically enforced scarce asset.

In the last 24 hours, Shiba Inu recorded a net outflow of 167,991,300,000 SHIB from exchanges, signaling stronger buying activity despite recent price weakness. Over the same period, SHIB futures open interest climbed 9.39% to more than 11,940,000,000,000 SHIB, with Gate.io handling 39.28% of the derivatives exposure. These moves suggest traders are positioning for a potential major price move in the meme token.

On December 30, on-chain tracker Whale Alert flagged two large Bitcoin withdrawals from Coinbase totaling 4,658 BTC, worth over $415 million at the time. The BTC was moved to unidentified wallets, while Coinglass data indicated a net inflow of about 3,307 BTC to buyers across exchanges in the last day, hinting at easing sell pressure and renewed bullish positioning by both large and small traders.

BitMine, chaired by Tom Lee, has expanded its Ethereum holdings by purchasing $132 million worth of ETH over the past week, lifting its treasury to $12.24 billion. The firm now controls about 3.39% of Ethereum's circulating supply and may need roughly $2.2 billion more in ETH at current prices to approach a 4% ownership threshold.

On December 29, analyst Ali Martinez warned that XRP could soon lose its $1.77 support, with a further slide potentially endangering the critical $1 mark. XRP is currently trading around $1.88, while selling pressure, weaker network activity, and large whale transfers are heightening downside risks.