TechFlow news, December 18 — According to SoSoValue data, the crypto market continued its correction today, while the NFT and PayFi sectors rose逆势 by 20.04% and 3.11% respectively. Within the NFT sector, Pudgy Penguins (PENGU), a newly launched token yesterday, surged 775% in 24 hours with a circulating market cap reaching $1.865 billion, ranking first in market capitalization among NFT tokens and significantly boosting the overall sector performance. In the PayFi sector, Litecoin (LTC) rose 9.17% in 24 hours, Stellar (XLM) gained 4.93%, and XRP increased by 3.18%.
The AI Agents sector saw the largest drop today, declining 8.74% over 24 hours. Newly listed tokens within the sector performed poorly: Vana (VANA) fell 36.30%, Goatseus Maximus (GOAT) dropped 10.21%, Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) declined 8.12%, ai16z (AI16Z) decreased 6.07%, and Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) lost 3.72%.
Other sectors: CeFi declined 0.18%, with Bitget Token (BGB) rising逆势 15.69%. Layer 1 dropped 1.57%, Meme fell 2.12%, DeFi declined 3.97%, Layer 2 dropped 4.98%, and the AI sector fell 6.12%.
