Real-World Assets outperform the AI sector in the crypto market over the past month
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- The Real-World Assets’ sector weighted average gained 15.6% in January.
- On-chain data shows the total market capitalization of RWAs increased by $3.77 billion, while the AI sector decreased by $14.44 billion in the same period.
- Artemis Terminal data shows that MANTRA and Ondo were the top-performing RWAs.
Real-World Assets (RWAs) outperformed the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector in the crypto market over the past month, with a weighted average gain of 15.6% in January. On-chain data shows that the total market capitalization of RWAs grew by $3.77 billion, while the AI sector decreased by $14.44 billion in the same period. Artemis terminal data shows that MANTRA and Ondo were the top-performing RWAs.
Real-World Assets take the lead in the market
According to Artemis Terminal sector performance data, as shown below, the Real-World Asset has the highest weighted average of 15.6% in January, outperforming the other sectors. The store of value segment was the second on the list, with 2.3%, while others were mostly negative during the period.
Sector Performance (January month) chart. Source: Artemis Terminal
Looking down on market capitalization, data from CryptoSlate shows that RWA’s market capitalization grew to $53.03 billion from $49.26 billion, a net gain of $3.77 billion over a month. Additionally, sector dominance increased to 1.48% from 1.46%.
RWA sector information chart. Source: CryptoSlate
However, during the same period, the AI sector market capitalization dropped to $22.55 billion from $36.99 billion, a net loss of $14.44 billion.
AI sector information chart. Source: CryptoSlate
This decrease in the AI sector was mostly due to China’s DeepSeek, a newly launched AI chatbot and potential rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which caught users’ attention one week after the release of its open-source language model, R1, on January 20. The Chinese LLM potentially threatens US equity markets by disrupting US Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominance with its cost efficiency and groundbreaking open-source technology.
As the RWA narrative leads the crypto space, Artemis terminal data shows MANTRA and Ondo were the top-performing RWAs.
RWA best performance chart. Source: Token Terminal
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