Bitcoin Registers Fourth-Best Day of 2024 as BlackRock ETF Posts Record Volume
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust registered $4.1 billion in volume traded as bitcoin broke out to all-time highs.
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BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust registered $4.1 billion in volume traded as bitcoin broke out to all-time highs.
The ratio surged 12% Wednesday as the pro-crypto Republican candidate Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election.
Investors say a Trump administration will favor DeFi applications and tokenomics more, given the family’s backing of World Liberty Finance – riling up DeFi-focused trades.
Analysts expect a 0.25% rate cut this week, which has historically benefited assets like BTC by diluting the dollar’s value and pushing investors towards alternative investments.
Crypto exchange Coinbase’s shares closed the day 31% higher, leading gains among digital asset-related stocks.
Quinn Thompson, the founder of crypto hedge fund Lekker Capital, shared with CoinDesk why he was so confident Trump would win despite concerning polls.
If the prediction market’s traders are right – and lately, they’ve been right – the election results are even more bullish for crypto than they appear.
The broad market gauge CoinDesk 20 Index was higher by 8.2% versus bitcoin’s 6% advance following Donald Trump’s victory.
MicroStrategy and Coinbase both added 12%, with bitcoin miners also gaining more than 10% in pre-market trading.
Bitcoin dominance approached 61% with Solana dominance also primed to touch record high.