Gold and Layer-1s Climb as AI and DeFi Tokens Slip

CoinGecko's top-100 snapshot at 09:00 UTC on 09 Oct shows a clear sector rotation: store-of-value and legacy Layer-1 tokens gained ground while AI-adjacent and DeFi names gave back recent gains, with the top-10 order unchanged.

The rotation in detail

The standout pairing is PAXG and DOT. PAX Gold climbed three ranks to 54 on a modest 1.3% price move, suggesting capital weight rather than speculative momentum. Polkadot added three ranks to 51 on an 8.5% gain. Both moves contrast with the DeFi and AI cluster pulling back.

Token	Rank	Delta	24h
DOT Polkadot	#51	▲ 3	▲ 8.5%
PAXG PAX Gold	#54	▲ 3	▲ 1.3%
MNT Mantle	#56	▼ 3	▼ 4.0%
VVV Venice Token	#75	▼ 3	▼ 8.3%
ALGO Algorand	#76	▼ 3	▼ 8.2%

Venice Token (VVV) and Algorand (ALGO) each shed 8%+ in 24 hours, the sharpest single-day drawdowns in this snapshot. Mantle (MNT) also slipped three places. At the top-100 boundary, PYTH entered at rank 99 on a 14.6% surge while RAY — also up 14.1% — paradoxically dropped out, reflecting the tightness of mcap competition at that band.

Boundary note

XDC Network re-entered at rank 98, displacing DASH which exited quietly on a flat -0.2% session.