Crypto Market Rises for Three Consecutive Days, PayFi Sector Leads with Over 7% Gain, BTC Touches $76,000

2026-03-17 02:20

According to data from SoSoValue, the crypto market continues to rally, rising for three consecutive days. The PayFi sector performed strongly, leading the gains with a 24-hour increase of 7.22%. Among them, XRP (XRP) rose by 8.29%, and Stellar (XLM) rose by 6.19%. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) rose by 4.12%, touching $76,000 during the session; Ethereum (ETH) rose by 8.32%, breaking through $2,300.

Notably, MAG7.ssi rose by 5.43%, DEFI.ssi rose by 8.21%, and MEME.ssi rose by 7.30%.

Other standout sectors include: the RWA sector, which rose 6.25% in 24 hours, with Ondo Finance (ONDO) up 6.90%; the NFT sector, which rose 6.16%, with Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) up 8.08%.

In other sectors: the Layer2 sector rose 6.08%, with Mantle (MNT) up 8.29%; the Meme sector rose 5.82%, with Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) up 26.19%; the DeFi sector rose 4.86%, with Hyperliquid (HYPE) up 8.71%; the Layer1 sector rose 3.20%, with Zcash (ZEC) up 19.24%; the CeFi sector rose 1.86%, with Cronos (CRO) up 4.86%.

The crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance show that the ssiPayFi, ssiLayer2, and ssiRWA indices rose by 7.82%, 7.53%, and 6.86%, respectively.