Crypto Rollercoaster: BTC Whales Accumulate, Terra CEO Jailed, XRP ETFs Surge

Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast.Hey folks, Crypto Willy here with your Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide, recapping the hottest action from the week leading up to December 20, 2025. Markets have been a rollercoaster, but let's dive in like we're grabbing coffee at the corner shop.Bitcoin's been testing our nerves, trading between $89,480 and $92,661, closing around $90,449 by Saturday per Binance Market Update—down 1.81% with the global crypto cap at $3.08 trillion, off 2.1%. Ethereum dipped harder to $3,114, down 3.74%, while Solana hit $133.74 (-2.69%) and XRP ticked up to $2.0356. Binance Square analysis flagged BTC's key support at $91,000 and resistance at $93,000, with whales quietly accumulating—net outflows over 8,000 BTC for three days straight. Fear and Greed's at 29, pure caution mode ahead of that CPI data drop.Big regulatory wins lit up the week: The OCC granted national trust bank charters to Ripple, Circle, Paxos, BitGo, and Fidelity Digital Assets, hooking them into the Fed's payment system for 24/7 stablecoin settles, as Coinpedia Digest reports. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse called XRP spot ETFs' $1B AUM surge "pent up demand." CFTC's new Digital Assets Pilot Program lets BTC, ETH, and USDC collateralize derivatives. And President Trump targeted bank restrictions on digital asset firms, with OCC issuing oversight warnings.Terra's Do Kwon got 15 years and must forfeit $19.3 million. Tether's eyeing full Juventus takeover with a €1B investment pledge. Bhutan's TER gold-backed token launched on Solana, and YouTube added PayPal's PYUSD payouts—PayPal crypto chief May Zabaneh says it's seamless for creators. Coinbase teased prediction markets with Kalshi and tokenized stocks at their December 17 event. NFTs cooled, Ethereum leading with $33.7M weekly sales per MEXC, but BNB Chain and Solana gained ground amid a 50% volume drop. Watch those $23.8B Bitcoin options expiring December 26 on Bitget.D'CENT's Year End Gala slashed wallet prices, and yeah, an Ethereum whale lost $27M to a private key hack via PeckShieldAlert—stay vigilant, fam!Thanks for tuning in, buddies—catch you next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, and for me, check out Quiet Please Dot A I. Stay stacked!Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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