The cryptocurrency market on December 29, 2025, presented a mixed picture, with major assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum struggling to break key resistance levels while select altcoins and presale projects posted significant gains. Bitcoin remained in an accumulation zone between $80,000 and $90,000, a level some analysts argue is lagging behind the global M2 money supply increase. Historically tracking M2, Bitcoin would need to rise at least 100% to over $160,000 to realign, a move some predict could occur in Q1 2026 if capital rotates from traditional markets into crypto as it did in 2020.
Amid this backdrop, the AI-crypto project DeepSnitch AI (DSNT) became a standout performer, rallying 100% during its ongoing presale. The project, which is building a platform of AI agents to monitor on-chain activity and provide real-time analytics to traders, has raised over $910,000 and is approaching the $1 million mark. Its token price has increased from $0.01510 to $0.03080. The team has activated three operational AI agents for presale participants and is offering bonus token incentives: a 50% bonus for investments over $2,000 using code DSNTVIP50 and a 100% bonus for investments over $5,000 using code DSNTVIP100.
Elsewhere, Clearpool (CPOOL), a decentralized capital markets platform, surged 34% after breaking a three-month downtrend on December 26. The price moved from around $0.036 to touch $0.044, with analysts eyeing a next target of $0.12 if the bullish momentum continues.
World Liberty Financial's WLFI token also gained over 5% following a Binance announcement. The exchange launched a "USD1 Booster Program" offering a 20% APR for deposits and staking of USD1, the project's dollar-pegged stablecoin. This news helped USD1 surpass a $3 billion market cap, making it the seventh-largest stablecoin. USD1 is backed by reserves in U.S. Treasury securities and cash.
Looking ahead to 2026, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas provided an optimistic outlook for crypto ETFs. He told Cointelegraph that further U.S. regulatory clarity and potential Federal Reserve interest rate cuts could ignite the market, predicting a base case of at least $15 billion in new capital inflows. He suggested assets under management (AUM) for crypto ETFs could double to $400 billion, driven by allocations from sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors.
Other market movements included Solana (SOL) trading around $122, briefly unaffected by a depegging of the Solana-based synthetic stablecoin USX to $0.92. Ethereum (ETH) hovered near $2,920, with analysts noting that growing stablecoin usage and asset tokenization could boost its Total Value Locked (TVL) significantly by 2026.
