The current price of BTC is $8,977 (press time) and earlier today it broke the $9,000 price mark, which is a 2% growth in the past 24 hours. Ethereum is up over 5%, trading at around $637. The biggest gainers this week are Bitcoin Cash, trading at $1,240 (9% up) and IOTA, trading at $2.08 (up 10%). Total market cap is nearing the $400 bln, currently being around $397 bln. The overall positive trend of the crypto market could be due to some potentially good news for crypto regulation in the past few days.