The past year in the crypto sector will be remembered for many things, but one notable trend, particularly towards the end of the year, was the sell-offs that occurred almost every day during US trading hours.
There’s not much to say yet, but on the first official trading day of 2026, a change could be afoot, as cryptocurrency prices are actually rising while US markets are open.
The action has pushed bitcoin above $90,000, an increase of 2.5% in the last 24 hours. Ether solarium and They are seeing progress close to 4%.
Assets overall are rising in the first session of the year, with the Nasdaq rising 0.6%, led by AI-related chipmakers such as Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron and Intel, which posted gains of between 3% and 6%. Lately, silver, the favorite commodity, has added 3%. Gold and copper are slightly higher.
Bitcoin miners turned AI infrastructure companies are considerably higher across the board, with Hut 8 (HUT), CleanSpark (CLSK), TeraWulf (WULF) up 10%, and Cipher Mining (CIFR) and IREN (IREN) each up 8%.
Strategy (MSTR) and Coinbase (COIN) are each ahead more than 3%, Galaxy Digital (GLXY) by 7% and Circle Financial (CRCL) by 4.5%.
