Rare U.S. session gains have bitcoin trading above $90,000

Last year in crypto will be remembered for many things, but one notable trend — particularly late in the year — was the selloffs that occurred nearly every day during U.S. trading hours.

It’s not much to go on just yet, but on 2026’s first official trading day, a change could be afoot as crypto prices are actually rising while American markets are open.

The action has pushed bitcoin BTC$90,053.25 above $90,000, up 2.5% over the past 24 hours. Ether ETH$3,106.40, solana SOL$130.25 and XRP$1.9442 are seeing advances closer to 4%.

Assets in general are on the rise in the year’s first session, with the Nasdaq higher by 0.6%, led by AI-related chipmakers like Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron and Intel posting 3%-6% gains. Favored commodity play of late, silver has added 3%. Gold and copper are each modestly higher.

Bitcoin miners turned AI infrastructure firms are sharply higher across the board, with Hut 8 (HUT), CleanSpark (CLSK), TeraWulf (WULF) sporting 10% gains, and Cipher Mining (CIFR) and IREN (IREN) each higher by 8%.

Strategy (MSTR) and Coinbase (COIN) are each ahead more than 3%, Galaxy Digital (GLXY) by 7% and Circle Financial (CRCL) by 4.5%.