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Total Market Cap
$2.28T
1.0%
24h Trading Volume
$51.68B
2.3% of market cap changes hands in 24h
BTC Dominance
56.5%
BTC 56.5%
ETH 10.0%
Others 33.5%
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Top 100 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap
View all 250 →| # | Coin | Price | 1h % | 24h % | 7d % | 24h Volume | Market Cap | Last 7 Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bitcoin BTC | $64,210.00 | 0.2% | 1.4% | 1.1% | $20.70B | $1.29T | |
| 2 |  Ethereum ETH | $1,884.55 | 0.2% | 2.2% | 1.4% | $7.26B | $227.42B | |
| 3 |  Tether USDT | $0.9992 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $34.24B | $183.10B | |
| 4 |  BNB BNB | $606.82 | 0.3% | 0.4% | 2.9% | $606.58M | $80.80B | |
| 5 |  USDC USDC | $0.9997 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $8.37B | $72.12B | |
| 6 |  XRP XRP | $1.00 | 0.1% | 2.6% | 6.3% | $1.06B | $62.70B | |
| 7 |  Solana SOL | $75.86 | 0.1% | 1.5% | 3.4% | $1.38B | $44.19B | |
| 8 |  TRON TRX | $0.3369 | 0.9% | 1.3% | 1.4% | $446.42M | $31.97B | |
| 9 |  Figure Heloc FIGR_HELOC | $1.00 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.3% | $53.01M | $21.14B | |
| 10 |  Hyperliquid HYPE | $55.16 | 0.1% | 0.9% | 1.0% | $242.30M | $12.27B | |
| 11 |  Dogecoin DOGE | $0.0704 | 0.4% | 0.7% | 0.6% | $313.02M | $10.94B | |
| 12 |  USDS USDS | $0.9998 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $184.66M | $9.81B | |
| 13 |  Rain RAIN | $0.0128 | 0.0% | 2.1% | 1.3% | $32.56M | $9.19B | |
| 14 |  LEO Token LEO | $9.39 | 1.0% | 2.7% | 4.0% | $311,470 | $8.64B | |
| 15 |  Zcash ZEC | $484.72 | 0.0% | 4.7% | 0.1% | $177.46M | $8.18B | |
| 16 |  Monero XMR | $396.32 | 0.2% | 0.1% | 8.0% | $86.01M | $7.45B | |
| 17 |  Cardano ADA | $0.1880 | 0.0% | 3.8% | 3.3% | $239.47M | $7.02B | |
| 18 |  WhiteBIT Coin WBT | $55.48 | 0.1% | 1.6% | 0.7% | $48.08M | $6.55B | |
| 19 |  Chainlink LINK | $8.65 | 1.8% | 5.6% | 6.4% | $291.01M | $6.47B | |
| 20 |  Stellar XLM | $0.1602 | 0.4% | 2.2% | 5.5% | $78.10M | $5.53B | |
| 21 |  Dai DAI | $0.9999 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $138.68M | $4.59B | |
| 22 |  Bitcoin Cash BCH | $214.57 | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.8% | $145.95M | $4.31B | |
| 23 |  USD1 USD1 | $0.9995 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $694.68M | $4.01B | |
| 24 |  Ethena USDe USDE | $0.9997 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $42.46M | $3.93B | |
| 25 |  Gram (prev. Toncoin) GRAM | $1.34 | 0.7% | 0.5% | 3.0% | $16.77M | $3.69B | |
| 26 |  Canton CC | $0.0935 | 0.5% | 3.9% | 15.4% | $11.79M | $3.67B | |
| 27 |  Litecoin LTC | $45.43 | 0.6% | 0.3% | 3.0% | $131.45M | $3.52B | |
| 28 |  Global Dollar USDG | $0.9999 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $264.94M | $3.47B | |
| 29 |  Circle USYC USYC | $1.13 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | $5,667 | $3.01B | |
| 30 |  Hedera HBAR | $0.0672 | 0.0% | 1.8% | 4.9% | $35.43M | $2.94B | |
| 31 |  Sui SUI | $0.6892 | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.1% | $148.70M | $2.81B | |
| 32 |  Avalanche AVAX | $6.48 | 0.4% | 0.1% | 3.8% | $128.63M | $2.80B | |
| 33 |  PayPal USD PYUSD | $0.9997 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $126.37M | $2.77B | |
| 34 |  BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund BUIDL | $1.00 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $0 | $2.73B | |
| 35 |  Tether Gold XAUT | $4,358.75 | 0.0% | 0.7% | 7.7% | $208.68M | $2.67B | |
| 36 |  Shiba Inu SHIB | $0.0000045 | 0.6% | 3.9% | 8.4% | $61.66M | $2.65B | |
| 37 |  Uniswap UNI | $3.94 | 0.4% | 2.1% | 2.1% | $128.33M | $2.46B | |
| 38 |  Cronos CRO | $0.0469 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 13.6% | $5.81M | $2.22B | |
| 39 |  Ondo US Dollar Yield USDY | $1.14 | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.1% | $1.37M | $2.14B | |
| 40 |  NEAR Protocol NEAR | $1.59 | 0.0% | 3.3% | 8.1% | $128.44M | $2.08B | |
| 41 |  OKB OKB | $95.42 | 0.0% | 0.9% | 9.4% | $25.82M | $2.00B | |
| 42 |  Bittensor TAO | $200.63 | 0.5% | 1.3% | 5.4% | $75.38M | $1.93B | |
| 43 |  PAX Gold PAXG | $4,375.47 | 0.0% | 0.7% | 7.9% | $161.05M | $1.91B | |
| 44 |  World Liberty Financial WLFI | $0.0551 | 0.1% | 4.1% | 1.5% | $36.72M | $1.75B | |
| 45 |  Ondo ONDO | $0.3392 | 0.3% | 3.3% | 7.8% | $69.23M | $1.65B | |
| 46 |  HTX DAO HTX | $0.00000183 | 0.5% | 0.7% | 1.2% | $27.02M | $1.64B | |
| 47 |  Aster ASTER | $0.6029 | 0.3% | 0.9% | 0.7% | $44.39M | $1.62B | |
| 48 |  Ripple USD RLUSD | $1.00 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $79.68M | $1.56B | |
| 49 |  USDD USDD | $0.9992 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | $112.62M | $1.55B | |
| 50 |  Mantle MNT | $0.4515 | 0.2% | 5.6% | 14.4% | $31.05M | $1.49B | |
| 51 |  MemeCore M | $1.10 | 0.2% | 0.7% | 7.7% | $5.57M | $1.47B | |
| 52 |  Aave AAVE | $89.03 | 0.4% | 3.2% | 3.5% | $120.64M | $1.37B | |
| 53 |  Polkadot DOT | $0.8029 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.2% | $72.10M | $1.36B | |
| 54 |  Falcon USD USDF | $0.9955 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | $1.80M | $1.34B | |
| 55 |  BFUSD BFUSD | $0.9987 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $956,292 | $1.32B | |
| 56 |  Morpho MORPHO | $1.97 | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2.5% | $12.85M | $1.29B | |
| 57 |  Internet Computer ICP | $2.29 | 0.5% | 4.0% | 9.9% | $80.50M | $1.27B | |
| 58 |  Sky SKY | $0.0529 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 5.4% | $9.11M | $1.24B | |
| 59 |  United Stables U | $0.9993 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $77.97M | $1.22B | |
| 60 |  Worldcoin WLD | $0.3369 | 0.4% | 4.1% | 4.5% | $153.93M | $1.21B | |
| 61 |  Pepe PEPE | $0.00000285 | 0.2% | 1.2% | 1.7% | $93.81M | $1.20B | |
| 62 |  USDGO USDGO | $1.00 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $18.45M | $1.16B | |
| 63 |  Bitget Token BGB | $1.65 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 2.5% | $6.98M | $1.15B | |
| 64 |  Pump.fun PUMP | $0.002762 | 1.4% | 1.7% | 25.0% | $128.19M | $1.09B | |
| 65 |  Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund (EUR) EURSAFO | $1.16 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.3% | $0 | $1.06B | |
| 66 |  Ethereum Classic ETC | $6.39 | 0.1% | 1.7% | 2.9% | $26.41M | $1.01B | |
| 67 |  Blockchain Capital BCAP | $106.16 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | $0 | $967.34M | |
| 68 |  Invesco Short Duration US Government Securities Fund USTB | $11.17 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | $0 | $952.52M | |
| 69 |  Pi Network PI | $0.0854 | 0.3% | 3.8% | 3.2% | $5.46M | $943.03M | |
| 70 |  Spiko EU T-Bills Money Market Fund EUTBL | $1.22 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.3% | $0 | $936.79M | |
| 71 |  KuCoin KCS | $6.69 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 4.0% | $2.63M | $916.89M | |
| 72 |  Ethena ENA | $0.0902 | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.5% | $98.90M | $886.20M | |
| 73 |  Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund JTRSY | $1.11 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | $0 | $871.96M | |
| 74 |  Quant QNT | $58.29 | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2.3% | $20.54M | $847.70M | |
| 75 |  JUST JST | $0.0992 | 1.2% | 1.8% | 6.4% | $36.62M | $812.60M | |
| 76 |  POL (ex-MATIC) POL | $0.0758 | 0.0% | 2.8% | 2.0% | $25.92M | $810.23M | |
| 77 |  Stable STABLE | $0.0318 | 0.8% | 1.4% | 1.7% | $8.50M | $804.83M | |
| 78 |  Algorand ALGO | $0.0826 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 8.9% | $21.10M | $745.51M | |
| 79 |  Cosmos Hub ATOM | $1.41 | 0.4% | 2.3% | 2.1% | $23.42M | $740.98M | |
| 81 |  Kaspa KAS | $0.0261 | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | $4.30M | $721.57M | |
| 80 |  Gate GT | $6.74 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 4.6% | $1.61M | $718.12M | |
| 82 |  NEXO NEXO | $0.7161 | 0.1% | 2.6% | 0.6% | $3.26M | $716.51M | |
| 83 |  GHO GHO | $0.9982 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $1.96M | $697.71M | |
| 84 |  Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Fund JAAA | $1.05 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | $0 | $693.81M | |
| 85 |  Beldex BDX | $0.0872 | 1.8% | 5.5% | 6.3% | $9.77M | $685.91M | |
| 86 |  YLDS YLDS | $0.9992 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $13.10M | $668.67M | |
| 87 |  Render RENDER | $1.24 | 0.1% | 3.5% | 6.9% | $38.43M | $640.83M | |
| 88 |  Lighter LIT | $2.45 | 0.4% | 7.0% | 20.8% | $34.84M | $612.51M | |
| 89 |  Jupiter JUP | $0.1801 | 0.4% | 1.9% | 5.7% | $14.68M | $597.93M | |
| 90 |  Filecoin FIL | $0.7011 | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.8% | $31.52M | $574.29M | |
| 91 |  Venice Token VVV | $11.78 | 0.4% | 3.3% | 1.6% | $8.01M | $561.57M | |
| 92 |  Usual USD USD0 | $0.9985 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $114,611 | $550.79M | |
| 93 |  XDC Network XDC | $0.0271 | 0.0% | 0.3% | 3.2% | $6.69M | $541.46M | |
| 94 |  Flare FLR | $0.006109 | 0.5% | 1.0% | 0.0% | $2.89M | $530.54M | |
| 95 |  Bitway BTW | $0.1952 | 2.4% | 2.6% | 64.8% | $22.84M | $528.35M | |
| 96 |  Arbitrum ARB | $0.0795 | 0.0% | 0.1% | 2.8% | $36.96M | $525.71M | |
| 97 |  币安人生 (BinanceLife) 币安人生 | $0.5163 | 0.4% | 1.7% | 5.6% | $8.36M | $516.41M | |
| 99 |  TrueUSD TUSD | $0.9959 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | $14.85M | $492.50M | |
| 100 |  Aptos APT | $0.5815 | 0.1% | 2.0% | 1.3% | $26.99M | $491.80M | |
| 101 |  A7A5 A7A5 | $0.0121 | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.0% | $845 | $472.78M |
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