Crypto Market Rallies Broadly, DeFi Sector Leads with Nearly 7% Gain

Odaily News: On September 18, according to SoSoValue data, the resolution of the U.S. interest rate hike combined with falling oil prices, as well as the SEC's issuance of an "innovation exemption" to promote on-chain trading of tokenized NMS stocks, caused panic sentiment to dissipate rapidly. The crypto market sectors overall showed an upward trend, with 24-hour gains generally ranging from about 2% to 7%. Among them, the DeFi sector performed strongly, rising 6.80%. Within the sector, Genius (GENIUS) rose 20.66%, while Uniswap (UNI) and Hyperliquid (HYPE) rose 14.81% and 10.01%, respectively.

Notably, MAG7.ssi rose 0.25%, DEFI.ssi rose 7.75%, and MEME.ssi rose 2.55%.

Sectors that also stood out include: the DePIN sector rose 5.55% in 24 hours, with Geodnet (GEOD) up 44.90%; the RWA sector rose 4.95%, with Ondo Finance (ONDO) up 9.53%.

In other sectors, the Layer2 sector rose 4.46%, with Arbitrum (ARB) up 18.69%; the Meme sector rose 3.79%, with Useless Coin (USELESS) up 14.21%; the Layer1 sector rose 3.67%, with NEAR Protocol (NEAR) up 22.91%; the PayFi sector rose 1.94%, with Zcash (ZEC) up 8.93%, continuing to hit new all-time highs; the CeFi sector rose 1.86%, with Aster (ASTER) up 4.52%.

Crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance show that the ssiDeFi, ssiRWA, and ssiLayer2 indices rose 7.70%, 6.00%, and 5.82%, respectively.