As of 12:53 p.m. ET in New York on Friday, December 26, 2025, Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ: HUT) is trading lower in a post-holiday session that has U.S. indexes hovering near record levels. ^[1]

Real-time pricing shows HUT around $49.76, down about 5.8% on the day, after opening near $52.88 and moving through an intraday range of roughly $48.43 to $53.39.

While the broader tape has been relatively calm—SPY slightly down and QQQ roughly flat—crypto-linked equities can swing hard even in quiet index sessions.

What’s driving Hut 8 stock right now

1) Bitcoin’s pull on miner-adjacent names is still real

Even as Hut 8 pushes deeper into AI data center infrastructure, it remains tethered to crypto market sentiment. At the same timestamp, Bitcoin is…