Interactive Brokers teamed with Paxos Trust Company to enable its customers to trade cryptocurrencies alongside other asset classes that the firm provides.
The cryptocurrency market cap is close to $2 trillion for the first time since May as some altcoins have surged in value, including a 20% jump from ADA.
The bears took over the cryptocurrency market as bitcoin dropped below $33,000, while ether dumped beneath $2,000 for the first time in over two weeks.
While bitcoin has added $2,000 in the past 24 hours, several DeFi coins, including UNI, Aave, SNX, and COMP, have charted impressive double-digit gains.
Dogecoin and Cardano have charted the most significant gains in the past 24 hours, while bitcoin fails to continue higher as it's stuck around $33,000.
Bitcoin's price headed south again to a low of just over $37,000 as on-chain data suggests that whales have started to sell off some of their holdings.
With bitcoin surging to $39,000 in the past 24 hours and most alts deep in green, the crypto market cap has exceeded $1.7T for the first time since Friday.
