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2025 was a rather eventful year for Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins. While BTC and most altcoins experienced sharp rises and falls throughout the year, some altcoins stood out and made their mark into 2025. While altcoins are listed according to different categories, CryptoRank has recently ranked the top 10 best-selling altcoins of 2025: Pumpfun (PUMP) topped the list, followed by World Liberty Financial (WLFI) and Monad (MON) in second and third place, respectively. “Pump.fun (PUMP) $600 million, World Liberty Financial (WLFI) $550 million, Monad (MON) $217 million, MegaETH (MEGA) $78 million, Aztec (AZTEC) $52 million, Plasma (XPL) $50 million, Gensyn (AI) $16 million, Solayer (LAYER) $10.5 million, Sahara AI (SAHARA) $8.5 million, Lombard (BARD) $6.7 million *This is not investment advice. Follow our Telegram and Twitter account now for exclusive news, analytics and on-chain data!

BlockBeats News, December 25th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor, the "Meme Coin Short Army Leader" has recently continued to adjust its short positions, shifting focus from shorting to defense. It has successively closed short positions in multiple coins such as ASTER, UNI, PUMP, and used the released margin to buy HYPE spot and open additional short positions for hedging, with the hedging position now increased to about $7.8 million. In addition, this address has completely emptied its holdings in coins such as MON, ZEC, TRUMP within this week, and withdrew about $2 million 24 hours ago. Currently, its total holdings are around $23.08 million, apart from the HYPE hedge portfolio, mainly holding ETH shorts (about $4.94 million), ASTER shorts (about $3.78 million), and UNI shorts (about $3.04 million). This address has recently been primarily focused on shorting, having completely closed 10 short positions since this month, adept at capturing meme coin volatility opportunities. Data shows that it has realized profits of about $7.1 million in the past 30 days, with a cumulative historical profit of $82.85 million.

BlockBeats News, December 25th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring data, during the Christmas holiday, most whales have not shown any new movements. The "BTC OG Insider Whale" has maintained a liquidation of over 40 million USD for a week. The "CZ Contrarian" whale has been longing ETH and XRP with a total liquidation approaching 30 million USD. Specific information is as follows: "BTC OG Insider Whale": After increasing ETH and SOL long positions and flattening them on the 18th, there have been no further position adjustments. The overall account still maintains a liquidation of around 48.2 million USD. Currently, its main holding is an ETH long position with a liquidation of 41.21 million USD (-34%), an average price of 3147 USD, and a position size of approximately 603 million USD. It also holds BTC and SOL long positions with a liquidation, and the total position size is approximately 723 million USD, making it the top ETH long on Hyperliquid. "CZ Contrarian": The current ETH long position has a liquidation of around 13.8 million USD (-122%), with a position size of about 168 million USD, an average price of 2947 USD, a liquidation price of 2669 USD, and a floating profit of 75,000 USD. In addition, it also holds an XRP long position with a position size of approximately 724.1 million USD and a liquidation of 16.59 million USD (-229%). There have been no position adjustments in the past week, and the total liquidation of the account is 30.42 million USD, making it the largest XRP long and the second largest ETH long on Hyperliquid. "pension-usdt.eth": Currently holds a 3x leveraged ETH long position with a position size of approximately 88.32 million USD, an average price of 2967 USD, a liquidation price of 1662 USD, a liquidation of 700,000 USD, and is now the third largest ETH long on Hyperliquid. "Ultimate Bear": Continues to cash out BTC short positions, with the current BTC short position size approximately 43.86 million USD, a floating profit of 12.02 million USD (548%), a liquidation price of 10.2 thousand USD, and a cumulative closing size of about 57 million USD this month. Stop-loss orders are currently set at 67.2 to 76.2 thousand USD. "Paul Wei": The current BTC long position has a floating loss of about 2.9%, accounting for 12% of the total funds, with most of the funds still in pending orders. The BTC long-short order trigger range has been adjusted to 85.6 to 89.2 thousand USD. A profit of 3100 USD has been recorded since November 16. “Copycat Air Force Frontman”: This address has recently focused on shorting, holding short positions in about 13 different coins including HYPE, ASTER, UNI, and ETH, with a total position size of around $23.05 million. Today, it continues to close multiple positions including XRP and PUMP, having recently closed out 8 different coins. In less than two months, it has realized a profit of $83.14 million through shorting multiple coins. It is currently still the largest on-chain ASTER short whale, with an average position price of $1.19, enjoying an unrealized gain of $2.72 million (366%).

BlockBeats News, December 25th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring data, during the Christmas holiday, most whales have not shown any new movements. The "BTC OG Insider Whale" has maintained a liquidation of over 40 million USD for a week. The "CZ Contrarian" whale has been longing ETH and XRP with a total liquidation approaching 30 million USD. Specific information is as follows: "BTC OG Insider Whale": After increasing ETH and SOL long positions and flattening them on the 18th, there have been no further position adjustments. The overall account still maintains a liquidation of around 48.2 million USD. Currently, its main holding is an ETH long position with a liquidation of 41.21 million USD (-34%), an average price of 3147 USD, and a position size of approximately 603 million USD. It also holds BTC and SOL long positions with a liquidation, and the total position size is approximately 723 million USD, making it the top ETH long on Hyperliquid. "CZ Contrarian": The current ETH long position has a liquidation of around 13.8 million USD (-122%), with a position size of about 168 million USD, an average price of 2947 USD, a liquidation price of 2669 USD, and a floating profit of 75,000 USD. In addition, it also holds an XRP long position with a position size of approximately 724.1 million USD and a liquidation of 16.59 million USD (-229%). There have been no position adjustments in the past week, and the total liquidation of the account is 30.42 million USD, making it the largest XRP long and the second largest ETH long on Hyperliquid. "pension-usdt.eth": Currently holds a 3x leveraged ETH long position with a position size of approximately 88.32 million USD, an average price of 2967 USD, a liquidation price of 1662 USD, a liquidation of 700,000 USD, and is now the third largest ETH long on Hyperliquid. "Ultimate Bear": Continues to cash out BTC short positions, with the current BTC short position size approximately 43.86 million USD, a floating profit of 12.02 million USD (548%), a liquidation price of 10.2 thousand USD, and a cumulative closing size of about 57 million USD this month. Stop-loss orders are currently set at 67.2 to 76.2 thousand USD. "Paul Wei": The current BTC long position has a floating loss of about 2.9%, accounting for 12% of the total funds, with most of the funds still in pending orders. The BTC long-short order trigger range has been adjusted to 85.6 to 89.2 thousand USD. A profit of 3100 USD has been recorded since November 16. “Copycat Air Force Frontman”: This address has recently focused on shorting, holding short positions in about 13 different coins including HYPE, ASTER, UNI, and ETH, with a total position size of around $23.05 million. Today, it continues to close multiple positions including XRP and PUMP, having recently closed out 8 different coins. In less than two months, it has realized a profit of $83.14 million through shorting multiple coins. It is currently still the largest on-chain ASTER short whale, with an average position price of $1.19, enjoying an unrealized gain of $2.72 million (366%).

Major cryptocurrency prices are trading sideways this Wednesday as investors exercise caution. This market stagnation is driven by light holiday trading volumes, anticipation of upcoming U.S. economic reports, and a record options expiry this week. Summary Crypto prices are experiencing slight declines on Wednesday, amidst thin holiday liquidity. Traders are awaiting the release of a key U.S. economic data set for later today. A major options expiry event due Friday is adding to the caution. According to data from CoinGecko, the total crypto market cap fell slightly, by 0.7% to $3.02 trillion last check on Wednesday, Dec. 24, Asian time. Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest crypto asset by market cap, seesawed between $86,800 and $88,100 before stabilizing near $87,000 when writing, down by 0.5% in the past 24 hours. Ethereum (ETH) slid 0.8% to $2,940 while other large-cap cryptocurrencies such as BNB (BNB), XRP (XRP), Solana (SOL), and Tron (TRX) recorded losses between 1-2%. Some of the smaller-cap crypto assets, such as Midnight (NIGHT), Pump.fun (PUMP) and Uniswap (UNI) stood as the top laggards, posting losses of 14%, 8%, and 7%, respectively. Investors are maintaining a cautious stance and reducing exposure to risky assets ahead of the Christmas holiday period, which is typically characterized by lower trading volumes as traders realize profits. Data compiled by CoinGlass shows that the futures open interest of the total crypto market has declined by 1.3% over the past 24 hours to $128.1 billion. The volume in the spot market also dropped 10% to $101 billion. At the same time, investor appetite remains in check due to a confluence of macro headwinds and upcoming market events. When writing, the Crypto Fear Greed Index was at 24, indicating persistent “Extreme Fear.” Traders remain cautious ahead of US Jobless data Crypto prices have remained suppressed as traders have taken aback today as they wait for the release of U.S. jobless data later today. The data is expected to come slightly hotter at around 223,000–225,000 new claims. As such, hotter-than-expected data could tend to put more pressure on the Fed to cut rates. However, comments from several Fed officials and the Fed chair himself have lately set a more hawkish tone for rate cuts, at least for early 2026. Cryptocurrencies tend to rally on expectations of rate cuts and pull back when they are delayed or deemed less likely to occur in the near future. The market had turned bearish just days before after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to 0.75%, the highest in the past 30 years, a divergence from the Fed, which cut rates in December to a range of 3.50%-3.75%. Cryptocurrencies have historically been volatile when the BoJ ramped up interest rates, as it can strengthen the yen and potentially unwind “carry trades” that involve borrowing in Japan to invest in higher-yielding, riskier assets elsewhere. Record options expiry spooks investors Adding another layer of bearish pressure, traders are also preparing for nearly $27 billion to $28.5 billion of options expiry from Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts on Deribit that will take place on Friday, Dec. 26. If this record expiry comes to take place, it would mark the largest expiry in the exchange’s history. As such, the hedging from market makers around the “max pain” price (currently around $96,000 for BTC) could keep prices fixated until the options expire. However, it should be noted that once the record expiry takes place on Friday, it could trigger a post-expiry relief rally or increased volatility as mechanical hedging pressure dissipates and the market resets for 2026. Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only.