The crypto market generally declined, with BTC falling below $68,000, but the AI ​​and meme sectors bucked the trend and rose.

PANews reported on March 23 that, according to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market generally declined. The RWA sector fell 4.85% in the past 24 hours. Within the sector, Sky (SKY) fell 7.95%, Ondo Finance (ONDO) and Pendle (PENDLE) fell 2.61% and 2.49% respectively. Additionally, Bitcoin (BTC) fell 1.42%, dropping below $68,000; Ethereum (ETH) fell 1.78%, dropping below $2,100.

It is worth noting that the AI ​​and Meme sectors performed exceptionally well, rising against the market trend by 10.36% and 3.66% respectively in the last 24 hours. Within the AI ​​sector, Siren (SIREN) surged by 163.98%, and Kite (KITE) rose by 7.19%. Within the Meme sector, MemeCore (M) rose by 3.31%, and Banana For Scale (BANANA) rose by 48.95%.

In other sectors, the CeFi sector fell 0.65% in the last 24 hours, with Aster (ASTER) showing relative resilience, rising 1.52%; the Layer 1 sector fell 0.80%, but Kaspa (KAS) rose 0.58%; the PayFi sector fell 1.10%, with Monero (XMR) surging 4.95% intraday; the DeFi sector fell 1.70%, with River (RIVER) surging 22.20%; and the Layer 2 sector fell 2.26%, with Mantle (MNT) falling 3.20%.