Cryptocurrency stocks retreated across the board, with AI stocks falling over 3%, but BTC briefly broke through $97,000.

PANews reported on January 15th that, according to SoSoValue data, the entire cryptocurrency market saw a pullback. The AI sector fell 3.29% in the past 24 hours, with Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) down 6.51%, Render (RENDER) and Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) down 7.29% and 8.75% respectively. However, Bitcoin (BTC) remained relatively resilient, rising 1.39% against the trend and briefly surpassing $97,000. Ethereum (ETH) fell 0.05%, remaining above $3,300.

In other sectors, the Layer 1 sector fell 0.80% in the last 24 hours, with Zcash (ZEC) rising 4.38% within the sector; the DeFi sector fell 1.11%, but River (RIVER) rose 15.07%; the CeFi sector fell 1.17%, with Bitget Token (BGB) rising 2.29% intraday; the PayFi sector fell 1.40%, with Dash (DASH) bucking the trend and rising 37.95%; the Meme sector fell 2.16%, with Pump.fun (PUMP) rising 2.16%.