Bitcoin has started 2026 with new energy, bouncing back above $90,000 after ending 2025 with a small annual drop. Even though trading has been steady rather than crazy, the cryptocurrency’s liquidity has already stood out in the first few days of the year.
According to Techgaged, Bitcoin’s average daily trading volume in the first week of January was much higher than NVIDIA’s. Even though the markets were moving sideways, Bitcoin traded about 41% more volume than the very active AI-focused tech stock. This shows how much bigger and more mature the crypto market is becoming.
Bitcoin’s average daily trading volume is about $11 billion more than NVIDIA’s.
Nvidia has been one of the most actively traded U.S. stocks since the AI boom started. In a busy session, tens of billions of dollars change hands, making it as liquid as Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT).
Still, when it comes to the average daily trading volume, Nvidia is still far behind Bitcoin, the digital outsider that was born from a whitepaper in 2008. A lot of people still thought of Bitcoin as a risky bet until a few years ago. BTC, on the other hand, has steadily grown into one of the most traded assets in the world, even beating tech giants like Nvidia. At first glance, the two seem very different, but a closer look at their investor activity shows how Bitcoin is becoming more and more popular.
The Techgaged research team looked into how much more money changed hands in Bitcoin than in NVIDIA stock during the first week of 2026, and how much more each day. The number for NVIDIA was found by multiplying its 7-day average share turnover on active trading days, which was about 142.8 million shares per day, by the average price for that time period, which was about $187.9.
Bitcoin’s total came from data from major exchanges. In the first week of the year, there was about $265 billion in trading volume, which is about $37.8 billion per day. Even though the exact numbers are just guesses, Bitcoin still had 41% more daily liquidity than the AI giant. When you look at it in dollars, the difference is even more obvious: Bitcoin had an average daily trading volume of about $11 billion over the past week, which is more than one of the most actively traded stocks.
“Bitcoin’s ability to beat NVIDIA in average daily trading volume, even after a rare negative year, shows how deeply BTC has become a part of global capital markets.” “Once thought to be a speculative outlier, it is now competing head-to-head with the world’s most liquid tech stocks,” said Jastra Kranjec, a research analyst at Techgaged.com.
In the first week of the year, Bitcoin’s trading volume was up 2% from the same week last year, while NVIDIA’s was down 12%.
The Techgaged comparison also showed us something else that was interesting. Even though it ended one of only four bad years since 2010, which would normally mean less interest and less trading, Bitcoin’s trading volume still went up in the first few days of 2026. In the first week of 2025, the average daily trading volume for BTC was just over $37 billion. This is 2% lower than the same time this year. Traders kept going even after a year when they lost money, which is rare.
Nvidia’s average trading volume over the past seven days, on the other hand, fell by 12%, from $30.8 billion to $26.8 billion.