On December 19, 2025, multiple newly created wallets pulled more than 8,000 ETH from Binance as the token traded below $3,000. Exchange balances fell to 16.22M ETH, with Binance at around 3.88M. Derivatives open interest edged from $17.4B to $17.7B, while one whale held a $600M long on Hyperliquid.

On December 19, 2025, the court-appointed plan administrator for Terraform Labs filed a $4 billion lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Jump Trading, its co-founder William DiSomma, and president Kanav Kariya. The complaint alleges secret token deals, market manipulation, and undisclosed support for TerraUSD’s peg that allegedly let Jump earn billions while UST and LUNA investors absorbed heavy losses.

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On Thursday, Real Vision founder Raoul Pal said Zcash's sharp advance resembles capital rotation rather than a lasting bull trend. ZEC is up about 699% since Jan. 1 to around $385, but has fallen roughly 37% over the past 30 days. Pal argued the asset needs to build a durable base before its rally can be deemed structural.

On 19 December 2025, a U.S. judge allowed plaintiffs to amend and refile a class-action complaint against Pump.fun, Solana Labs, the Solana Foundation, and Jito Labs. The motion cites over 5,000 internal chat logs from a confidential informant submitted in September, tied to maximal extractable value practices. The case, first filed in July, may influence how courts handle MEV-related disputes.

On December 18, 2025, Arkham Monitoring said BitMine's Ether purchases for the week reached at least $229.31 million, including a 30,075 ETH ($88.73 million) withdrawal from FalconX. The NYSE American–listed firm also said Monday it holds over 3.2% of ETH supply, while CoinGecko data shows 407,331 ETH added in the past 30 days.

On Thursday, the XRP Ledger activated the fixDirectoryLimit amendment, removing a hard cap on directory pages that had caused transaction failures during periods of heavy activity. In parallel, Japanese exchange SBI VC Trade opened a new recruitment round for its Rent Coin lending service on December 18 at 20:00 JST, offering yields on 34 cryptocurrencies including XRP. Together, these developments highlight both technical refinement on the network and expanding XRP-based financial products in Japan.

Dogecoin fell below $0.1250 after a close under $0.1300 and is consolidating near recent lows, with immediate resistance around $0.1235 and a bearish trend line near $0.1300. The pair trades under $0.1220 and the 100-hour simple moving average, while supports lie at $0.1200, $0.1195 and $0.1150. A break higher could aim for $0.1350, $0.1372 and $0.1400.