PRIVACY AND EXCHANGE TOKENS WERE THE ONLY SECTORS TO FINISH GREEN Privacy coins and exchange tokens were the best performing sectors this year and the only two to remain in the green, standing out in an otherwise broad drawdown across crypto. The outperformance points to capital favoring utility and cash-flow-adjacent narratives over speculation, with users gravitating toward assets tied to trading activity, revenue generation, and censorship-resistant use cases rather than hype-driven themes.