As 2025 winds down, ChatGPT outlined two cryptocurrencies it believes could potentially turn $100 into $1,000 by 2026: Solana (SOL) and Ozak AI (OZ). It cites Solana's low-fee, high-throughput design and Ozak AI's AI–blockchain angle, while noting the 900% target is high risk. SOL trades at $138.4 and is down over 9% YTD.

On December 12, Hex Trust announced it will introduce wrapped XRP (wXRP) on Solana and other networks, including Ethereum, as a fully collateralized 1:1 representation of XRP. The rollout is planned to start with more than $100 million in locked value, while XRP's price trades around $2.03 after a modest daily gain of 0.84% and a 1.26% decline over the past week.

U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds recorded $12.84 million in net inflows on December 5, extending their growth streak to 13 consecutive trading days. Cumulative inflows have reached $887.12 million since the mid-November launch, with the funds collectively holding more than 400 million tokens. XRP traded at $2.07, down more than 3% on the same day, despite the sustained institutional interest.

XRP dropped more than 4% on December 5, extending a decline that has erased over 30% of the token's value since October 5. Data show $7.83 million in long positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours as bearish pressure mounted. Sentiment metrics turned 72% more bearish, reaching their lowest level in approximately two months, according to Santiment.

Digital banking platform Revolut integrated native Solana (SOL) functionality on December 3, enabling its 65 million users to make payments, transfers, and stake SOL directly within the app. The update expands beyond previous trading-only capabilities to include peer-to-peer transactions and withdrawals using SOL, USDT, and USDC on the Solana network. Revolut previously offered limited blockchain network access for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple transactions.

Binance's Bitcoin reserves declined from approximately 595,000 BTC to around 572,000 BTC between November 22 and December 3, data show. Analysts attribute the decline to users moving holdings into self-custody wallets and institutional investors acquiring Bitcoin through spot ETFs, which draws assets off exchanges.

XRP's funding rate jumped nearly 120% on December 3, signaling increased leveraged long positioning among traders. Exchange-traded funds linked to the token have attracted an estimated $845 million in cumulative inflows. BlackRock executives drew parallels between tokenization's current development stage and the internet in 1996, noting the sector's $23 billion valuation.

The Federal Reserve ended its quantitative tightening program on December 1, injecting $13.5 billion into the U.S. banking system through overnight repurchase agreements. Data show this represents the second-largest liquidity injection since the COVID-19 era, exceeding levels seen during the Dot Com Bubble. The move marks a shift from the balance sheet reduction that began in April 2022.

Latin America's largest crypto exchange, Bitso, will introduce a multi-platform perpetuals aggregator and its own token in 2026. The Mexico-based platform's retail user base expanded by over 12% in 2024 to reach 9 million customers, driven by surging stablecoin adoption across the region.