Crypto Market Sees Broad Decline, RWA Sector Drops Nearly 7%, BTC Briefly Falls Below $82,000

Odaily News: On October 13, according to SoSoValue data, the crypto market experienced a broad decline, with 24-hour losses generally ranging from about 2% to 7%. The RWA sector showed weakness, dropping 6.94%. Within the sector, Centrifuge (CFG) fell 11.47%, and Ondo Finance (ONDO) declined 9.60%. The AI sector dropped 6.25%, with Unibase (UB) falling 13.58% and Fetch.ai (FET) declining 10.55%, though Render (RENDER) bucked the trend with a 5.83% gain.

In addition, Bitcoin (BTC) fell 1.40%, briefly dropping to near $81,000 before recovering above $82,000; Ethereum (ETH) declined 2.91%, falling below $2,500.

In other sectors, the CeFi sector dropped 2.13% over 24 hours, with Aster (ASTER) falling 3.57%; the Layer1 sector declined 4.21%, with NEAR Protocol (NEAR) dropping 10.99%; the PayFi sector fell 4.40%, though Safe (SAFE) remained relatively resilient with a 16.60% gain; the Layer2 sector dropped 5.53%, with Starknet (STRK) plunging 27.26%; the DeFi sector declined 5.90%, with Ethena (ENA) falling 12.25%; the Meme sector dropped 6.04%, with Pons (PONS) declining 18.75%.

Crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance show that the ssiRWA, ssiLayer2, and ssiDeFi indices fell 7.59%, 6.70%, and 6.63% respectively.