The last year in the cryptocurrency space will be remembered for many things, but one trend worth noting — especially later in the year — was the near-daily sell-off during U.S. trading hours.
Not much is happening yet, but on the first official trading day of 2026, changes may be on the way as cryptocurrency prices are actually rising as U.S. markets open.
The action boosted Bitcoin Above $90,000, it is up 2.5% in the past 24 hours. ether Solana and The improvement is close to 4%.
On the first trading day of this year, assets generally showed an upward trend, with the Nasdaq index rising 0.6%, led by artificial intelligence-related chip manufacturers such as Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron and Intel, with gains of 3%-6%. Silver, a favored commodity of late, rose 3%. Gold and copper both edged higher.
Shares of Bitcoin miners turning to artificial intelligence infrastructure companies saw sharp gains across the board, with Hut 8 (HUT), CleanSpark (CLSK), TeraWulf (WULF) up 10%, and Cipher Mining (CIFR) and IREN (IREN) up 8% each.
Strategy (MSTR) and Coinbase (COIN) both lead by more than 3%, Galaxy Digital (GLXY) leads by 7%, and Circle Financial (CRCL) leads by 4.5%.