The crypto price chart reflected more profits than losses on Monday, December 29. Bitcoin, over the last day, managed to rope-in gains of nearly 2.5 percent. After having reeled under the crucial $90,000 mark for weeks, BTC price climbed to $90,010 on the last Monday of 2025.
Ether price spiked by 2.27 percent over the last day. The second most expensive crypto asset after BTC, ETH was trading at $3,033 at the time of writing – touching a key physiological safezone for investors after days. Notably, BitMine’s investment of $219 million into ETH staking has also testified to the institutional interest in the asset, adding to its rally. The BTC mining-turned-ETH treasury firm plans to own and hold five percent of all Ethereum in existence.
Market analysts have noted that the crypto market has turned broadly positive with BTC and ETH reclaiming key moving averages that indicate that momentum is returning to the market.
Institutional participation, like Bitmine’s $219 million ETH staking, reinforces the growing belief in long-term yield opportunities within the ecosystem.
“With only a few days left in 2025, Bitcoin needs a modest six percent rally to end the year in green territory. The overall sentiment is cautiously bullish, pending confirmation of a breakout above key resistance levels,” Riya Sehgal, Research Analyst, Delta Exchange told Coin Headlines. “A clear breakout above the $90,000–$92,000 resistance band could open the path toward $97,700–$101,000, while $85,000–$88,000 remains an important support zone. For ETH, the $3,134 level will be crucial, a sustained move beyond it could trigger a rally toward $3,340–$3,370.”
BNB, XRP, Solana, Dogecoin, and Cardano also managed to rope-in profits of under four percent over the last day alongside World Liberty Financial, Chainlink, Zcash, Sui, and Toncoin. Canton (CC), on the other hand, grew by over ten percent to trade at $0.1299 at the time of writing. Canton’s seven-day price trajectory shows a gain of over 43 percent despite the wider market slowdown around the holidays.
“While Dogecoin shows potential trend reversal, with targets near $0.14 and possibly $0.20 if momentum strengthens, Shiba Inu remains in a tight consolidation after months of decline, suggesting selling pressure is fading and the market is finding balance,” said Sathvik Vishwanath, Co-Founder and CEO, Unocoin – highlighting the situation of the memecoin category especially when a new token on the block, ApeMars is grabbing major spotlight even before its launch slated for January 2026.
The overall crypto market cap rose by 2.30 percent over the last day to claim the valuation of $3.04 trillion on Monday.
Leo and Near Protocol emerged among a handful of majority underdog assets in seeing small losses.
A total of 69,786 traders were liquidated in the last 24 hours, data by CoinGlass showed. The total liquidations over the last day have been logged at $169.25 million – with over $45 million being pulled out of both, BTC and ETH ecosystems.