Bitcoin traded above $80,000 on Thursday as Charles Schwab told clients it will widen the list of tokens available in Schwab Crypto accounts, giving Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink access to a retail brokerage that has offered only bitcoin and ether since May.
The three named tokens outpaced the two Schwab already carries. SOL gained 12.9%, Chainlink 5.5% and Avalanche 3.6%, against 2.1% for bitcoin and 1.5% for ether. U.S. spot Solana ETFs have taken in $1.23 billion since launch and drew $3.6 million on Wednesday.
Bitcoin last changed hands at $80,020, up 2.1% over 24 hours and 10.4% over seven days, after trading between $78,294.85 and $80,793.49, CoinGecko data shows. It closed at $79,018 on Wednesday and had not settled above that level in the prior five sessions. Ether was at $2,504, up 1.5% on the day and 8% on the week. XRP added 6% to $1.46; Solana rose 12.9% to $109.13; BNB gained 1.6% to $710.12. Total crypto market value stood at $2.79 trillion, up 2.22% over 24 hours, on $99.4 billion of volume, with bitcoin dominance at 57.6%.
Among the 100 largest tokens, 71 are neither stablecoins nor tokenized funds or commodity tokens, and 63 of those rose on the day. Across the 150 largest, 16 non-stablecoin tokens declined.
