Bitcoin briefly climbed $90,000 before falling back to $87,871. The consensus is that if Bitcoin does not convincingly return $90,000, it risks repeating the structure of 2019. As BTC continues to hover around the $88,000 mark, many Wall Street analysts are predicting that Bitcoin’s “four-year cycle” is breaking. Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise, said: “I think the four-year cycle is less important now than in the past. We are no longer in a four-year cycle. We are in a 10-year upswing with strong returns and lower volatility.”
Meanwhile, Solana looks like she’s going to fall through the floor. A bearish double top appears on the weekly chart, and the channel “buzz” continues to fade.
Solana features the kind of setup that destroys late bulls. The price continues to fall while the network metrics that typically bail out the narrative go in the other direction. SOL is trading at around $125.85, down more than 12% from its monthly high and close to its September high.
The total value of DeFi locked on Solana fell to $23.8 billion from $35.1 billion in September, while protocol fees slipped from $31 million to $8 million during the same period. Meanwhile, spot inflows into the Solana ETF have cooled significantly – $199.2 million in the first week after launch, compared to $13.1 million last week, according to SoSoValue data.
Investors are watching SOL’s $120 like a hawk, because if it breaks, talk of a “healthy pullback” could quickly turn into damage control.
What if $ SOL breaks this 125 resistance that has been testing for days
Next step: an escape – Retest
and then we make money
Let’s see pic.twitter.com/19M50gf8b0
– Jacal (@JacalCrypto) December 28, 2025
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Ethereum staking queues just reversed!
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Ethereum is trading quietly near $2,970. While the bulls successfully defend the $2,900 support zone, rally attempts remain limited by descending resistance. We know that ETH must either reclaim key moving averages to trigger a breakout or risk a breakout with thinner end-of-year liquidity.
Ethereum forms a hellish and bullish launch pad. pic.twitter.com/fERzrKZ6xl
– Mr. Bitcoin Whale (@MrBitcoinWhalee) December 23, 2025
Interestingly, Ethereum’s staking queues just reversed. After six straight months of validator exits rather than entries, entries finally exceeded exits this past weekend. This change matters! But maybe not for the reason everyone thinks. The entry queue has expanded while the exit queue has contracted. This created an estimated two-week wait for new validators to join the network. This is the first time since June 2025 that ETH has entered staking rather than exiting it.
BitMine, which controls about 3.4% of Ethereum’s total supply, has scooped up about 70% of the unstaked ETH. This represents around 5% of the total supply that has changed hands since July 2025.
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