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Since its creation in 2009, Bitcoin has shown a consistent four-year cycle. This is driven by massive movements centered around Bitcoin's halving, culminating in a speculative high in the following year.

Since the halving in 2024, Bitcoin prices have been rising, but no signs of a speculative high occurred in 2025, at least within the timeline consistent with the four-year cycle.

Without this speculative high, the rest of the crypto market stagnated, as the increase in Bitcoin prices tends to initiate the altcoin season.

Bitcoin entered the final month of 2025 under intense fear. Many investors gave up because they could no longer cope with the increasing losses. However, data indicates that a great opportunity is opening up.

The Bitcoin Capitulation Metric has just reached an all-time high. This development is of significant importance in the current market context.

How the Bitcoin capitulation metric suggests a great buying opportunity in December

The Bitcoin Capitulation Metric reflects the level of 'pain' that investors are facing.

BeInCrypto Brazil was announced as the grand winner of the Brazil Publisher Awards 2025 (BPA) in the category Best Site – Economics and/or Finance, at a ceremony held this Monday (1st) in Porto Alegre. The award is promoted by the National Association of Publishers of Brazil (ANPB) and recognizes initiatives of excellence in the country's digital media ecosystem.

This year's edition adopted the theme Authentic Intelligence and brought together publishers from all regions, highlighting projects that connect to editorial responsibility, creativity applied to technology, and the social impact of digital journalism.

US stablecoins dominate 99% of the global market. China is advancing with the e-CNY. Europe, supported by MiCA and the first euro stablecoin regulated by BaFin, the EURAU, wants to close the gap. But can it move quickly enough?

BeInCrypto spoke with Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, about Europe's strengths, its regulatory challenges, and whether the EU can still play a leadership role in digital finance.

Europe vs. USA: two competing models

BeInCrypto: How do you evaluate Europe's position in relation to the USA and Asia?

The price of XRP enters December after a weak November, with the token falling nearly 13% for the month. December often looks strong on paper due to the outlier of 2017, but recent years have shown much more modest returns.

With ETF inflows increasing, long-term investors selling, and XRP trading near a crucial resistance zone, traders want to know if December can offer a clearer scenario. This analysis examines XRP's seasonal history, on-chain behavior, and the most relevant levels.

The price of Bitcoin in December is now a crucial focus, given that the market ended November on a downturn. Bitcoin has fallen more than 17% this month, breaking its usual November trend and raising questions about whether the recent recovery to 80 thousand dollars was truly the bottom.

December has a mixed historical record for Bitcoin, and the initial data for this year shows caution in both spot market flows and chain signals. This analysis examines three main areas: seasonal performance, ETF flows, and chain insights and price charts for the upcoming month.

Crypto whales became active during the market downturn in early December, and their buying patterns reveal a divide between three very different tokens.

One of them is surpassing all major price extensions with aggressive demand from large investors. Another is establishing itself in a reversal pattern after days under pressure. And a third is showing early signs that the strong selling may finally be easing. Together, these movements show where big buyers expect the next stage of recoveries and continuations of the rise.

Silver (XAG) is surpassing Bitcoin in terms of retail interest, breaking records from several decades and leading investors to explore a new territory: tokenized silver.

With the liquidity of precious metals on the rise, analysts suggest that digital silver may be the next big on-chain asset class.

46-year high of silver alters market psychology

Silver closed the month at $58, its highest monthly close in 46 years, with retail interest in silver surpassing Bitcoin in global Google trends.

Chainlink (LINK) is about to receive its first spot ETF, as Grayscale's GLNK begins trading on December 2 on the NYSE Arca.

However, after recent altcoin ETFs failed to raise prices, investors are wondering if LINK will break the trend or become the next victim of weak market sentiment.

Grayscale advances with third ETF launch in two weeks

The launch marks Grayscale's third ETF in less than 14 days, following GDOG and GXRP, with the Zcash (ZEC) ETF also in progress.

The total cryptocurrency market capitalization (TOTAL) and Bitcoin (BTC) remained stable on Tuesday, following a pessimistic start to the week. Zcash (ZEC) followed the same trend, recording a 22% drop in 24 hours.

In today's news:

Vanguard will start allowing trading in cryptocurrency-focused ETFs and mutual funds on its platform starting December 2nd, giving more than 50 million clients regulated access to Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, and other major assets. However, the company will continue to block meme cryptocurrency products and has no plans to launch its own cryptocurrency funds.

XRP was one of the large-cap assets with the worst performance this week. The price of XRP has fallen about 1.1% since yesterday and now has a decline of nearly 11% over the last 7 days. The movement occurs as the chart shows a strong downward structure, but a rare on-chain signal has flipped and now stands between XRP and a sharper decline.

This combination keeps both sides open while XRP trades near an important decision point.

The downward structure intensifies as a critical support zone emerges

Bitcoin has shown a practically stable performance this week. It rose about 1% in the last 24 hours, but still registers a drop of nearly 21% in the last 30 days. In the last 7 days, the price of Bitcoin has changed little. This limited behavior reflects a clear range: Bitcoin has remained in the same zone of 6% while buyers and sellers continue to neutralize each other.

Behind the scenes, the balance seems fragile. The combination of technical aspects and on-chain metrics keeps the risk of a decline, unless conditions change very quickly.

The integration of Binance Pay with Pix marks a decisive advance for digital payments and, especially, for Argentine users who travel or live in Brazil. With this update, the platform allows the instant conversion of cryptocurrencies into reais through the country's most widely used payment system, opening a new chapter in the everyday use of digital assets in South America.

For millions of people, Pix is already part of their financial routine. Its arrival at Binance Pay makes the use of crypto as immediate and natural as a traditional payment, but with the benefits of blockchain technology. This combination establishes the foundation for an ecosystem where cryptocurrencies cease to be just an investment and begin to integrate into daily life.

The new cash reserve of US$ 1.44 billion from Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) has raised more questions than answers, occurring at a time when the markets feel unusually tense and every movement seems to suggest something deeper beneath the surface.

MicroStrategy builds reserve in US$ as market panic tests Saylor's Bitcoin doctrine

MicroStrategy's latest move should calm the spirits. However, it has become the new focal point of a market dominated by fear, speculation, and a rapidly approaching liquidity stress test.

Memecoins had a volatile week, with many tokens recording gains, while others suffered losses. The cascading effect of the broader market decline could further impact the memecoins that are showing losses.

BeInCrypto identified three memecoins that investors should watch, considering the market movement.

Pippin (PIPPIN)

A PIPPIN showed one of the strongest performances of the week, skyrocketing 451% over seven days. The memecoin is now trading at $0.152, marking a 10-month high.

Market sentiment entered extreme fear on December 1st. Short positions are dominating the derivatives market. Several large altcoins are showing severe imbalances in their liquidation maps, which could trigger a new record in liquidations.

The following analysis highlights the underlying factors that may cause the market to diverge from short-term expectations in the first week of December.

1. Ethereum (ETH)

The 7-day liquidation map of ETH shows that the cumulative volume of short position liquidations significantly exceeds that of long positions. This indicates that traders are aggressively selling ETH.

Pi Coin has dropped about 7% in the last 24 hours, following the broader market pullback. Even with this impact, its monthly movement is still close to -8.7%, which is better than the approximately 21% loss of Bitcoin and the 26% drop of Ethereum in the same period.

The question now is simple: is this the beginning of a deeper decline or just a pause before the next rise of PI?

New low shock and then two metrics indicate that the decline may be slowing down

The stocks of BitMine (BMNR) closed last Friday with a rise of 4.35%, raising the weekly gain to 27.78%. However, this appreciation occurred before a sharp correction over the weekend in Ethereum. Since November 28, ETH has fallen more than 9%, creating a scenario where BMNR may face pressure this week.

The behavior of the stocks generally follows the weekend movements of Ethereum, and this link can influence the trading of BMNR in the coming days.

Crypto markets experienced a sharp decline after Japan's 10-year government bond yield surged to its highest level since 2008. This movement triggered a wave of global risk reduction and one of the largest liquidation events in weeks.

This movement eliminated billions of dollars in digital asset value, highlighting how much the crypto sector is still exposed to changes in macroeconomic liquidity outside its own ecosystem.

Increase in Yields in Japan: the Yen Carry Trade Unravels and Crypto Feels the First Impact

The end of the Federal Reserve's quantitative tightening (QT) program on December 1, 2024 marks a crucial shift for cryptocurrency markets.

Despite this milestone, experts note that the visible impact may take time. The expansion of the balance sheet may be delayed until early 2026 due to delays in treasury settlements, mirroring past cycles.

Historical patterns link the Fed's policy to the performance of altcoins

The Fed's monetary policy exerts increasing influence on the cryptocurrency market. Historically, when the Fed was not in QT, altcoins showed significant strength against Bitcoin, triggering multi-year rallies and altering market dynamics.