Prediction Markets Lead Crypto Sectors With a 9.68% Gain in Snapshot

Prediction Markets led TokenPost’s listed crypto sectors with a 9.68% 24-hour gain at 11 p.m. ET (03:00 UTC Oct. 16) Oct. 15, while Tokenized Private Credit had the steepest decline.

The comparison covered sector categories with market capitalizations of at least $2 billion. Prediction Markets’ gain exceeded Options, the second-ranked gainer, by 0.12 percentage points. Options had a larger capitalization, at $7.30 billion versus $6.95 billion, and trading volume of $25.5 million compared with $24.4 million for Prediction Markets.

Data Availability rose 9.35% to $8.06 billion, with $1.48 billion traded. Gambling (GambleFi) added 8.99% to $7.59 billion on $22.4 million in volume. Quantum-Resistant advanced 8.97% to $22.78 billion, with $1.71 billion in volume.

Among the declining sectors, Tokenized Private Credit fell 0.53% to $24.65 billion on $215.6 million in volume. Synthetic Dollar slipped 0.36% to $6.85 billion, with $59.1 million traded. Trump-Affiliated declined 0.33% to $6.49 billion on $1.37 billion in volume.

Privacy Blockchain dropped 0.29% to $8.35 billion, with $968.4 million in volume. USD Stablecoin had the smallest decline, down 0.20% to $296.11 billion, while its trading volume reached $88.04 billion. It had the largest capitalization among the listed sectors; Prediction Markets’ capitalization was about 2.3% as large.

In the Oct. 14 sector snapshot, Prediction Markets was down 8.96% at 2:24 a.m. ET (06:24 UTC). The later Oct. 15 snapshot showed the sector among the leaders. The two readings were taken at different times.

Sector classifications overlap, so their market capitalizations and trading volumes should not be added together.