On Dec. 25, XRP traded near $1.86, dipped, and recovered toward $1.87, finishing the holiday session in the green. According to CoinGlass, the last hour saw $12,510 in liquidations, mostly $11,802 in shorts, while the 24-hour total reached $828,440 with longs leading $481,670 versus $346,760 in shorts.

On Christmas, Shiba Inu's burn rate reportedly surged 505.74%, with 5,984,918 SHIB destroyed over a 24-hour period while the token traded around $0.00000719. Despite the headline jump in burns against a backdrop of over 410.75 trillion SHIB already removed from the initial supply, the price action stayed slightly negative and continued to reflect a pattern of lower highs into late December.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has publicly rejected renewed claims that he sold ADA near its 2021 peak around $3, insisting he did not offload tokens during the rally. As ADA trades around $0.35 on Binance after a prolonged downtrend, traders are watching key support near $0.30 and resistance between $0.38 and $0.50 to gauge whether any rebound can develop into a sustained recovery.

On Dec. 25, Binance's BTC/USD1 pair briefly registered an abnormal low of $24,111.22 before rebounding toward the $87,000 area, highlighting how thin liquidity on a single market can create a flash-crash style wick. XRP's weekly chart is nearing a death cross with traders watching a potential move down toward the 200-week moving average near $1.3762, while Cardano's historical January performance shows positive average and median returns that keep a bullish seasonal narrative in play.

On Dec. 25, Changpeng Zhao shared a Christmas Day note stressing that the most compelling Bitcoin entries often occur when sentiment is weak. According to TradingView, BTC/USDT posted a wide daily range with a high near $90,599, a low around $86,412, and a close around $87,784, down roughly 1% for the day.

XRP is finishing December 2025 down about -13.44%, trading near $1.8653 on the monthly chart while the Bollinger midband sits around $1.8193. If the monthly close holds above roughly $1.82, the upper band near $3.60 becomes the next upside reference; a close below would restore downside levels.

On Dec. 24, 2025, a long-inactive Ethereum premine address holding 2,000 ETH was reactivated after 10.4 years, with the stash's value rising from $620 in 2015 to $5.86 million. On-chain data show a sequence of test and bulk transfers, and traders are watching whether the remaining 401 ETH heads to exchanges during the thin holiday trading period.

On Dec. 24, 2025, XRP community figure BearableGuy123 resurfaced with a "589"-themed image and a 2026 message. Upbit recorded three deposits totaling 51,231,999,673 SHIB within roughly eight hours, and Bitcoin's monthly Bollinger Bands show price under the midband with the lower band near $52,187.

The XRP Ledger's AlphaNet has implemented Dilithium-based, quantum-resistant cryptography, enabling developers to create new accounts and conduct transactions secured by the upgraded scheme. Jameson Lopp has estimated that a comparable transition across the Bitcoin network, including nodes, wallets and stored coins, could require at least 5 to 10 years, underscoring a widening technological gap in post-quantum readiness between the two chains.