According to Santiment, BTC briefly spiked to about $90,087 on Coinbase before retracing to roughly $86,580 at the time of the post (source: Santiment, X post, Dec 17, 2025). According to Santiment, rising positive BTC funding rates across exchanges indicate heavier leveraged long positioning, a setup that has historically preceded sharp liquidations, volatility spikes, and local tops or pullbacks (source: Santiment, X post; Santiment dashboard app.santiment.net/s/iUiEzzfd?utm_source=x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=x_btc_eth_total_aggregated_funding_rates_b_121725/&fpr=twitter). According to Santiment, ETH currently shows shorts outweighing longs, signaling weaker bullish conviction and comparatively lower immediate squeeze risk versus BTC (source: Santiment, X post; Santiment dashboard). According to Santiment, because crypto assets broadly track BTC, a cleaner path back toward $100K for BTC and an altcoin rebound requires BTC funding rates to normalize to neutral or turn negative (source: Santiment, X post). According to Santiment, traders can track aggregated BTC and ETH funding rates in real time via its dashboard to gauge leverage and liquidation risk (source: Santiment dashboard app.santiment.net/s/iUiEzzfd?utm_source=x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=x_btc_eth_total_aggregated_funding_rates_b_121725/&fpr=twitter).