Bitcoin remains stable above $90,000, reflecting consolidation rather than renewed selling pressure. Ethereum shows resilience with strong weekly and monthly performance, despite a cooling in futures positioning. BTC: Bitcoin is trading sideways above $90,000, with price action reflecting consolidation after a recent advance rather than renewed selling pressure, as macro support and cycle-driven caution continue to offset each other. ETH: Ether is trading around $3,247, edging lower on short time frames but remaining up strongly on weekly and monthly views, underscoring resilience despite a recent cooling in futures positioning.
That unwind now appears well advanced. The recent pullback looks less like a structural break and more like a loss of momentum, with positioning resetting to roughly July 2025 levels, Park added in a note to CoinDesk. Importantly, that reset has not been accompanied by a sharp spot selloff. Taken together, the signals point to consolidation and rotation rather than a broad risk-off move.
Bitcoin is absorbing competing macro narratives without breaking trend, while Ethereum looks less crowded and better positioned if institutional flows re-engage. DeFi, ethics disputes remain in Senate crypto bill ahead of Jan. 15 vote. KuCoin captured a record share of centralised exchange volume in 2025, with more than $1.25tn traded as its volumes grew faster than the wider crypto market. KuCoin recorded over $1.25 trillion in total trading volume in 2025, equivalent to an average of roughly $114 billion per month, marking its strongest year on record.
This performance translated into an all-time high share of centralised exchange volume, as KuCoin’s activity expanded faster than aggregate CEX volumes, which slowed during periods of lower market volatility. Spot and derivatives volumes were evenly split, each exceeding $500 billion for the year, signalling broad-based usage rather than reliance on a single product line. Altcoins accounted for the majority of trading activity, reinforcing KuCoin’s role as a primary liquidity venue beyond BTC and ETH at a time when majors saw more muted turnover. Even as overall crypto volumes softened mid-year, KuCoin maintained elevated baseline activity, indicating structurally higher user engagement rather than short-lived volume spikes.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the Vera Rubin platform, which promises five times the AI computing power of previous systems, is now in full production. The Rubin platform will feature 72 GPUs and 36 CPUs per server, with the ability to scale into larger systems containing over 1,000 chips. The AI boom is reshaping the crypto market, with bitcoin miners pivoting to offer infrastructure services to AI customers, impacting data-center space and costs.
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