All other crypto sectors underperformed Bitcoin this year, with average decline ranging from nearly 50% to as high as 85%.

According to data available on Delphi Digital, various crypto sectors such as AI frameworks, Agent-based projects, meme coins and others have crashed this year.

In a surprising turn of events, crypto sectors have crashed this year, rendering a poor performance compared to the benchmark assets of the industry, namely Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL), according to data available on Delphi Digital.

Out of all the sectors, AI frameworks and platforms have seen the worst decline as they fell by 84.05% on average. Meanwhile, Agent-based projects are down 70.27% on average compared to last year. The meme coin sector also saw a major decline as it plummeted by 51.74% this year, much to the dismay of meme coin traders.

These results are surprising considering many traders were confident that AI-based projects and the meme coin sector would be the ones leading the crypto market in 2025. A Binance survey conducted last December showed that nearly 45% of users believed that AI projects and meme coins would emerge as strong players in the coming year.

The gaming infrastructure sector also saw a similar loss of 51.54% this year, followed by the modular solutions sector which is down 47%. The AI and DePIN sector also suffered this year, with a loss of 42.41%. The Layer 1 sector seems to be doing better with only a decline of 26%.

On the other hand, despite suffering a major drop in price and falling below the $90,000 threshold, Bitcoin’s performance has managed to sustain minimal damage. At press time, Bitcoin’s performance by return percentage has seen a 5.23% decline.

Compared to other benchmark assets, like Ethereum and Solana, Bitcoin’s performance has sustained the least damage. Meanwhile, Ethereum has seen a 25.5% decline in returns and Solana has suffered a similar loss of 24.8% in performance. On average, the benchmark assets have gone down by 18.53% in returns. Although this is still not a good sign for the crypto market, the benchmark assets seem to be doing much better than all the other crypto sectors.

Crypto market crashed after Bitcoin slipped below $90,000

The crypto market suffered a major crash on Feb. 25 after Bitcoin slipped below $90,000 for the first time since November 2024. Crypto liquidations have now passed the $1 billion mark, with long positions making up the majority of liquidations.

According to data available on Glass Node, crypto liquidations have been steadily increasing since February 24, varying between $600 million and $650 million in 24 hours. However, on Saturday, the total liquidations went over $1 billion. A vast majority of the liquidations were in the derivatives market, with only 10% of liquidations being spot.

Out of the total liquidations, 60% were long positions and 40% were short positions, rendering a strong presence of traders who got liquidated on their belief that the crypto market would continue going up. The biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, saw the highest volume of liquidations.