$BTC reached a new all-time high of $93,800. Currently, $BTC is trading at $92,239, while $ETH is trading at $3,105. Bitcoin dominance stands at 60.37%.
President-elect Trump has nominated pro-Bitcoin Howard Lutnick for the U.S. Department of Commerce. Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, is known for his comment: "I have hundreds of millions of dollars of exposure to Bitcoin, and it will be billions."
Additional headlines include: IBIT options see hundreds of millions in volume on day one; Metaplanet shares jump 15% following its latest Bitcoin acquisition; and former Robinhood employees raise $5 million for the crypto-AI startup OpenLayer.
Over the past 24 hours, the top three gainers were $VIRTUAL, $DOG, and $GRASS, while the top three losers were $XTZ, $EIGEN, and $MOODENG.