Crypto Sector Rises Broadly, AI Sector Leads with Over 6% Gain, BTC Breaks $71,000

2026-04-08 02:38

Odaily News On April 8th, according to SoSoValue data, influenced by the two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, the crypto market sectors generally rebounded. The AI sector performed strongly, rising 6.61% in 24 hours. Among them, Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) surged significantly by 18.88%, while Bittensor (TAO), Worldcoin (WLD), and Render (RENDER) rose by 8.56%, 8.94%, and 10.14% respectively.

Furthermore, Bitcoin (BTC) rose 4.30%, breaking above $71,000; Ethereum (ETH) rose 6.23%, surpassing $2,200. Meanwhile, MAG7.ssi increased by 4.58%, DEFI.ssi by 5.30%, and MEME.ssi by 5.04%.

In other sectors, the DeFi sector rose 4.41% in 24 hours, with EdgeX (EDGE) up 14.90%; the Layer2 sector rose 4.32%, with Optimism (OP) up 9.51%; the Layer1 sector rose 3.95%, with Zcash (ZEC) up 25.73%; the PayFi sector rose 3.86%, with Dash (DASH) up 8.77%; the Meme sector rose 3.56%, with SPX6900 (SPX) up 11.86%; the CeFi sector rose 2.64%, with OKB up 3.92%.

The crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance showed that the ssiAI, ssiDePIN, and ssiNFT indices rose by 9.27%, 7.08%, and 5.81% respectively.