Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and CrunchBase, recently disclosed on social media that XRP is one of his five largest crypto holdings by dollar value, alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Immutable. His post sparked heavy engagement and debate among market participants over portfolio construction and what his choices might signal. XRP’s price action has been volatile in 2025, with the token trading around $1.98 in mid-December after previously reaching nearly $3.65 in July.

JPMorgan Asset Management has launched My OnChain Net Yield Fund, a tokenized money‑market vehicle on Ethereum, according to company filings and industry reports. The bank seeded the fund with $100 million at launch, targets qualified investors via Morgan Money, and offers token shares representing direct ownership of portfolios composed of US Treasuries and repo agreements.

Macro-focused analysts warn Bitcoin could slide toward the $70,000 area if the Bank of Japan raises interest rates on Dec. 19. According to AndrewBTC, past BoJ hikes in 2024–2025 lined up with drawdowns of roughly 23%, 26%, and 31%, while traders also note a bear flag after November's drop from $105,000–$110,000.

On December 12, 2025, Solana said Firedancer, a validator client built by Jump Crypto, moved out of controlled testing and went live on mainnet. Markets responded with SOL up about 5% and trading near $140, while controlled tests reportedly spanned over 100 days and produced more than 50,000 blocks without downtime.

Binance, the largest global crypto exchange, has expanded support for USD1, the stablecoin associated with World Liberty Financial and Donald Trump's crypto projects, by adding spot pairs such as ETH/USD1, SOL/USD1 and BNB/USD1. The platform will also shift all collateral backing its Binance-Peg BUSD into USD1 at a 1:1 rate within one week, while enabling zero-fee swaps between USD1 and other major stablecoins. Market participants saw a short-term boost in BNB and related tokens after the announcement, as liquidity and trading routes tied to USD1 increased.

Bitcoin rebounded after the US Federal Reserve delivered three consecutive interest rate cuts totaling 0.75% between September and December, with prices swinging between $90,000 and $93,500 before stabilizing near $92,300. Traders are now focused on resistance in the $97,000–$108,000 zone, ETF inflows of $219 million since late November, and mixed signals from dollar weakness and US equity strength as they gauge the next move.

Dogecoin rose 4% to trade near $0.14 on Thursday, with market capitalization around $21 billion and 24-hour volume close to $1.6 billion. Daily active addresses topped 67,500 on December 3, the second-highest level in three months. Support around $0.138–$0.14 has held, and traders are watching $0.16 as the next resistance.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says Bitcoin’s traditional four-year cycle may be weakening as institutions and spot ETFs absorb and hold more circulating supply. The April 20, 2024 halving cut miner rewards to 3.125 BTC and reduced daily issuance by about 450 BTC, a change some analysts view as modest relative to total market size and ETF inflows, according to these commentators.

Shiba Inu must move back above a horizontal band between $0.000014 and $0.00001 or risk being considered "dead" from a technical perspective, according to BingX Bitcoin adviser Nebraskan Gooner. SHIB has traded below this region for much of Q4 2025. It was quoted near $0.000008618, leaving it roughly 33–38% under a level many traders view as critical for a potential recovery.