finance tokens rose 0.12%.

On the downside, Layer 2 solutions and meme tokens faced sharper declines, although outliers like SOON surged 5.93% and REKT rocketed nearly 45% higher. This mixed picture was reflected in the broader sector indices. The RWA sector index rose 1.16% while the Layer 1 index declined 0.70% and the DeFi index lost 1.95%.

Today, a number of far-reaching developments outside of technical trading are driving crypto prices.

South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Upbit, has been hacked for around $32 million. Investigators are looking at whether North Korea's notorious Lazarus Group was behind the attack, as the hackers used transaction mixing techniques commonly linked to the group. It is the second major breach at Upbit; the exchange previously lost $58 million in Ethereum during a 2019 hack that was also attributed to Lazarus.

CME Group briefly shut down all trading when a cooling system malfunctioned at its data centers. The outage impacted the futures and options contracts across currencies, stock indexes, and commodities on the Globex platform. The price quotes for S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 stopped updating to show how technical issues can ripple across traditional and crypto markets.