TechFlow news, on January 3, according to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market saw a slight broad-based uptick, with the DePIN sector leading the gains at 4.32%. Within the sector, Grass (GRASS) rose 18.32%, Akash Network (AKT) gained 15%, io.net (IO) increased by 10.19%, top project Render (RENDER) climbed 5.78%, and Filecoin (FIL) advanced 3.20%.
Notably, previously hot sectors AI Agents and Hyperliquid ecosystem experienced significant pullbacks, declining by -3.25% and -9.53% respectively. In the AI Agents sector, tokens related to the Virtuals Protocol ecosystem saw sharp corrections, with VIRTUAL, AIXBT, GAME, LUNA, and VADER falling by -5.91%, -17.34%, -18.20%, -17.97%, and -15.80% respectively. However, Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) bucked the trend, surging 24.69% and standing out as a strong performer. Meanwhile, in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, HYPE, HFUN, and PURR dropped by -9.32%, -3.84%, and -6.32% respectively.
In other sectors, GameFi rose 3.27%, with GALA up 8.17% and BEAM gaining 6.33%. The Meme sector increased by 3.19%, Layer 2 climbed 3.16%, DeFi advanced 2.80%, and Layer 1 rose 2.41%.
