Bitcoin remained flat in year-end trading, despite managing to post a modest recovery to a price level near US$89,000 amid low volatility.
The largest cryptocurrency continued to fail to break the US$90,000 resistance, with support around US$86,500 having so far prevented deeper declines.
Barring a last-minute surge, Bitcoin risks ending 2025 in the red, an anomaly for a post-halving year.
Large-cap altcoins also remained weak, with Ethereum and XRP failing to break through their respective key resistance levels.
Several small-cap tokens performed prominently, helping to boost the global crypto market capitalization to around US$3.08 trillion.
