Odaily reported on January 15 that the cryptocurrency market saw a general increase, with the AI Agents and PayFi sectors seeing 24-hour gains of 9.73% and 9.27% respectively. Within the AI Agents sector, the ecosystem token Virtuals Protocol performed well, with VIRTUAL, AIXBT, VADER, GAME, and LUNA rising 9.35%, 43.65%, 30.02%, 22.36%, and 21.78% respectively. Spore (SPORE) rose 36.07% and Eliza (ELIZA) rose 26.92%. In the PayFi sector, the leading projects XRP (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) rose 9.98% and 10.05% respectively. In other sectors, the MEME sector rose 5.02%, with the sector leader Dogecoin (DOGE) rising 5.05%. The DeFi sector rose 4.61%, with Raydium (RAY) rising 14.36% and Lido DAO (LDO) rising 10.85%. Additionally, the Layer 1 sector rose 3.16%, the Layer 2 sector rose 2.64%, and the CeFi sector rose 1.53%.