According to @StockMKTNewz, Shopify (SHOP) said its merchants generated a record $14.6 billion in Black Friday–Cyber Monday sales, up 27% year over year, source: Shopify company update. Shopify characterizes these holiday results as gross merchandise value processed across its merchant base, a key operating volume metric for investors tracking platform scale, source: Shopify 2024 Form 10-K. Merchant Solutions revenue, including Shopify Payments, is primarily driven by GMV and gross payments volume, making this BFCM print a direct read-through for Q4 operating trends, source: Shopify 2024 Form 10-K. For crypto linkage, Shopify enables crypto checkout via integrations such as Coinbase Commerce and BitPay, supporting assets like BTC and ETH for participating merchants, source: Coinbase Commerce documentation and BitPay Shopify integration guide. Traders should watch SHOP premarket reaction and any commerce-volume updates from crypto payment processors to gauge potential spillover into BTC/ETH payment activity on supported storefronts, source: Coinbase Commerce merchant resources and BitPay data pages.