On December 12, 2025, Coinbase Institutional outlined macro forces it expects to shape crypto in 2026, saying liquidity support appears earlier than anticipated and reserve growth may persist until April 2026. The Fed cut its policy rate by 25bp to 3.5%-3.75% and signaled RMP U.S. T-Bill purchases over the next 30 days, a backdrop Coinbase views as constructive for digital assets.

Cardano has printed a death cross on its hourly chart after the 50-period moving average slipped below the 200-period line, while the price attempts a short-term rebound. After peaking at $0.484 on Dec. 9 and dropping for two days, ADA traded around $0.424 with a 2.47% daily gain, as traders watched key levels between $0.37 and $0.90. Cardano's MVRV reading of -4.4% and the planned early 2026 deployment of the Pyth Lazer oracle integration offer potential upside signals.

Lookonchain reports that veteran Bitcoin holder BitcoinOG has expanded his leveraged long position in Ethereum to 120,094 ETH, worth $392.5 million, with a liquidation level at $2,234.69. ETH was trading near $3,203 and down 3.33% over the past 24 hours as traders took profits, while on-chain metrics and the recent Fusaka upgrade, including PeerDAS (EIP-7594) and BPO-1, signaled returning buyers and higher data capacity for rollups.

Dogecoin’s trading volume surged 61% to $1.68 billion ahead of today’s Federal Reserve rate decision, as the memecoin traded within a narrow $0.131–$0.156 range. With markets pricing a 90% chance of a 25 bps cut, traders are positioning for potential volatility around Chair Jerome Powell’s commentary on the 2026 policy path.

XRP exchange-traded funds have recorded 16 consecutive days of net inflows since Nov. 13. Aggregate assets have surpassed $1 billion, with $944.13 million attributed to products from Canary Capital, Grayscale, Bitwise and Franklin Templeton. 21Shares, CoinShares and WisdomTree are expected to launch XRP ETFs next, expanding institutional access.

Shiba Inu’s spot trading volume on U.S. exchange Kraken jumped 2,394.51% over the past week as traders positioned around the token ahead of potential market catalysts, CoinGlass data show. SHIB is trading near $0.000008513 with weekly gains, while analysts point to shifting bid/ask dynamics and a possible accumulation phase for altcoins despite ongoing caution in the market.

XRP Ledger validators face a critical deadline to upgrade to rippled version 2.6.2 within approximately two weeks. Failure to complete the update may result in nodes being amendment-blocked from the network. The release introduces the fixDirectoryLimit amendment and addresses a bug related to Batch transaction failures.

Three additional XRP exchange-traded funds are preparing to launch in the United States. 21Shares, CoinShares, and WisdomTree will debut their XRP ETF products following the recent launches of Grayscale and Franklin Templeton spot ETFs this week. Binance XRP reserves have declined to 2.7 billion tokens since October, with over 300 million XRP withdrawn since Oct. 6, according to CryptoQuant data.

Binance will delist 12 cryptocurrency margin trading pairs on December 4 at 6:00 a.m. UTC. The affected pairs include WAXP/BTC, SXP/BTC, ONT/BTC, ID/BTC, ZRX/BTC, CHR/BTC, ENJ/BTC, ONG/BTC, POWR/BTC, AGLD/BTC, and UMA/BTC across Cross Margin and Isolated Margin platforms. The exchange will close user positions, perform automatic settlement, and cancel all pending orders during the delisting process.