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Veteran trader Peter Brandt has warned that XRP's chart may be forming a double-top pattern, with price action now threatening a key neckline support. If this classical setup completes, XRP could slide back toward the $0.50 area, while a sharp move above $2.00 would invalidate the bearish scenario Brandt is tracking.

Bitcoin recently retreated from resistance near $90,000 and is now trading under $87,000, below the 100-hour Simple Moving Average. The price is consolidating after a drop toward the $85,282 low, with key resistance levels seen around $87,350 and $87,800. A move above $87,800 could open the way to $88,000–$89,200, while failure to break higher may trigger another decline toward $85,000 or even $84,200.

On the night of December 17, 2025, Coinbase activated live U.S. stock trading in its app, allowing users to purchase American equities using USDC. The company is also rolling out futures, perpetuals, prediction markets, and a tokenization stack for institutions, positioning the platform as a hub for traditional assets, derivatives, and on-chain products.

India’s Competition Commission cleared Coinbase Global’s minority investment in CoinDCX, according to a regulatory notice and a post by CLO Paul Grewal on Wednesday. The approval follows an October notice indicating a post‑money valuation of approximately $2.4 billion and Coinbase’s report of about $141 million in annual revenue as of July. Coinbase has also reopened its app for India and targets a fiat on‑ramp in 2026.

Bitcoin's drop into the mid-$80,000s has drawn buying interest and set up a potential rebound as price compresses below key moving averages. Ethereum sits under $3,000 and needs a swift recovery toward $3,100–$3,200 to preserve its higher‑time‑frame structure. Cardano trades well below major EMAs, with RSI in the low 40s signaling late‑stage downside exhaustion risk.

Bitcoin has fallen over 30% since early October, shifting sentiment from optimism to caution as some market participants view the move as a possible peak. A new thesis argues the classic four-year pattern may be giving way to a structurally supported supercycle. Price action remains weak below 90,000 dollars, with 85,000–86,000 highlighted as key support.

On December 15, 2025, Kalshi's John Wang called prediction markets "the memecoins of 2023," underscoring a shift as memecoin activity cooled by late 2025. The article reports that Kalshi, Polymarket and Limitless saw $44 billion in volume this year, while on-chain monthly activity exceeded $13 billion, according to Keyrock and Dune Analytics.

On Dec. 17, analyst Will Taylor of CryptoinsightUK argued that XRP has returned to the lower end of a long‑standing trading range between about $2.01 and $1.60, which he views as the most attractive area for risk‑to‑reward entries. He highlighted a remaining liquidity pocket around $1.83, discussed adjusting his stop loss near $1.79, and identified a reclaim of roughly $2.07 as a potential trigger for a rapid move toward $2.58–$2.60. At the time of his remarks, XRP was trading near $1.92, and he framed both the asset and the wider crypto market as deeply discounted relative to traditional assets.

Perplexity AI has issued new price projections for Pi Network, Bitcoin and Solana, outlining sharply divergent bullish and bearish paths into the end of 2025. The AI model sees Pi trading anywhere between $0.15 and $2.80, while Bitcoin could swing between $70,000 and $230,000 and Solana between $30 and a multi-hundred-dollar rally. These scenarios underscore heightened volatility risk for major and emerging crypto assets in the coming months.

Analysts say Bitcoin's recent weakness could extend into the $65,000–$75,000 area, but they view a potential move to $70,000 as part of a broader macro reset rather than the start of a new bear market. Traders are tracking a possible three-day bullish divergence and past recoveries after oversold RSI readings, while long-term models still outline a potential price path toward $300,000 by 2029. In this view, deeper pullbacks are interpreted as building the base for the next structural uptrend.