Crypto Sectors Broadly Rise, PayFi Sector Leads with Over 8% Gain, Only GameFi Sector Slightly Declines

2026-01-06 02:49

Odaily News On January 6th, according to SoSoValue data, the overall crypto market sectors showed a continuous upward trend. The PayFi sector performed notably, leading the gains over the past 24 hours with an increase of 8.07%. Among the leading projects, XRP (XRP) rose by 9.80%, Stellar (XLM) rose by 6.45%, and Monero (XMR) rose by 4.36%. Furthermore, both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) maintained a sideways consolidation trend within a narrow range, trading at $93,000 and $3,200 respectively. Notably, MAG7.ssi rose by 2.43%, DEFI.ssi rose by 1.04%, and MEME.ssi rose by 1.60%.

Other sectors with impressive performance include: the DePIN sector, which rose by 3.50% over 24 hours, with Render (RENDER) up 9.08% and Aethir (ATH) up 10.70% within the sector; the Layer2 sector, which rose by 2.06%, with Stacks (STX) up 6.29%; and the RWA sector, which rose by 1.81%, with Keeta (KTA) up 7.10%.

In other sectors, the AI sector rose by 0.95%, with Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) gaining another 8.68%; the Layer1 sector rose by 0.62%, with Sui (SUI) surging 12.16%; the DeFi sector rose by 0.50%, with Onyxcoin (XCN) skyrocketing 45.48%; the CeFi sector rose by 0.49%, with NEXO (NEXO) up 7.64%; and the Meme sector rose by 0.21%, with Bonk (BONK) up 5.66%.

Only the GameFi sector experienced a slight decline of 0.03%, although ImmutableX (IMX) rose by 3.57%.

The crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance show that the ssiPayFi, ssiDePIN, and ssiLayer2 indices rose by 8.63%, 4.45%, and 2.90% respectively.