The best cryptocurrencies set to explode in 2026

Key facts:

The total crypto market capitalization is around $3.5 trillion today.
There are tens of thousands of cryptocurrencies listed worldwide, but only a few hundred (or at most a thousand) are truly active and liquid enough to appear in the top market rankings.

Here is our selection of the best alternative cryptocurrencies of the moment to make a profit in 2026.

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Top 250 Active Cryptocurrencies

Live ranking of the 250 most traded cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and 24h volume. Data automatically updated from the CoinGecko public API.

# Name Symbol Market Cap (USD) Volume 24h (USD)
1 Bitcoin Bitcoin BTC $1,813,687,682,697 $39,886,882,221
2 Ethereum Ethereum ETH $364,479,237,078 $11,410,770,435
3 Tether Tether USDT $184,627,465,471 $43,661,179,024
4 XRP XRP XRP $131,293,350,798 $1,776,969,126
5 BNB BNB BNB $121,812,055,291 $968,267,124
6 USDC USDC USDC $76,590,137,153 $3,616,413,469
7 Solana Solana SOL $76,558,745,172 $3,254,095,541
8 TRON TRON TRX $26,702,500,804 $381,892,994
9 Lido Staked Ether Lido Staked Ether STETH $26,059,342,735 $18,639,795
10 Dogecoin Dogecoin DOGE $22,511,872,892 $686,911,776
11 Cardano Cardano ADA $15,452,790,680 $543,185,782
12 Figure Heloc Figure Heloc FIGR_HELOC $14,281,293,121 $146,771
13 WhiteBIT Coin WhiteBIT Coin WBT $12,521,600,386 $48,157,805
14 Wrapped stETH Wrapped stETH WSTETH $12,181,255,907 $28,658,374
15 Wrapped Bitcoin Wrapped Bitcoin WBTC $11,338,366,150 $80,903,971
16 Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash BCH $10,932,740,193 $448,624,983
17 Wrapped Beacon ETH Wrapped Beacon ETH WBETH $10,677,295,784 $5,798,673
18 USDS USDS USDS $9,411,130,941 $6,355,868
19 Chainlink Chainlink LINK $9,190,102,915 $316,527,591
20 LEO Token LEO Token LEO $9,070,779,043 $394,870
21 Binance Bridged USDT (BNB Smart Chain) Binance Bridged USDT (BNB Smart Chain) BSC-USD $8,985,396,556 $743,355,551
22 Hyperliquid Hyperliquid HYPE $8,813,415,241 $236,372,446
23 Stellar Stellar XLM $8,084,007,748 $87,061,793
24 Monero Monero XMR $7,995,753,445 $149,039,830
25 WETH WETH WETH $7,941,992,295 $113,979,677
26 Wrapped eETH Wrapped eETH WEETH $7,722,462,776 $32,944,458
27 Ethena USDe Ethena USDe USDE $7,179,961,310 $79,060,166
28 Zcash Zcash ZEC $7,082,611,812 $696,737,968
29 Coinbase Wrapped BTC Coinbase Wrapped BTC CBBTC $6,529,860,725 $204,722,289
30 Litecoin Litecoin LTC $6,399,809,049 $355,554,757
31 Hedera Hedera HBAR $6,067,035,775 $121,137,108
32 Avalanche Avalanche AVAX $5,953,883,469 $347,181,619
33 Sui Sui SUI $5,612,873,571 $431,009,863
34 Shiba Inu Shiba Inu SHIB $4,971,221,517 $82,538,759
35 Dai Dai DAI $4,440,002,706 $64,481,124
36 World Liberty Financial World Liberty Financial WLFI $4,332,571,966 $105,714,269
37 sUSDS sUSDS SUSDS $4,031,618,979 $18,534,995
38 Toncoin Toncoin TON $4,017,172,961 $85,707,786
39 Cronos Cronos CRO $4,013,223,224 $11,537,077
40 Ethena Staked USDe Ethena Staked USDe SUSDE $3,910,578,070 $57,880,956
41 PayPal USD PayPal USD PYUSD $3,864,960,219 $35,169,995
42 Uniswap Uniswap UNI $3,858,439,899 $255,581,101
43 USDT0 USDT0 USDT0 $3,809,546,828 $156,941,359
44 Polkadot Polkadot DOT $3,695,767,100 $80,301,323
45 Mantle Mantle MNT $3,522,607,050 $205,483,132
46 Canton Canton CC $2,984,949,267 $10,589,286
47 Bittensor Bittensor TAO $2,829,798,815 $71,805,366
48 Aave Aave AAVE $2,720,435,369 $229,134,297
49 USD1 USD1 USD1 $2,716,820,137 $257,010,018
50 Bitget Token Bitget Token BGB $2,531,807,801 $2,662,865
51 MemeCore MemeCore M $2,405,739,745 $24,674,421
52 NEAR Protocol NEAR Protocol NEAR $2,356,155,054 $100,994,433
53 BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund BUIDL $2,317,294,422 $0
54 OKB OKB OKB $2,227,549,456 $19,769,506
55 Tether Gold Tether Gold XAUT $2,197,948,032 $194,705,011
56 Falcon USD Falcon USD USDF $2,187,678,879 $296,737
57 Aster Aster ASTER $2,161,700,621 $175,119,527
58 Ethereum Classic Ethereum Classic ETC $2,138,127,464 $40,315,515
59 Internet Computer Internet Computer ICP $2,137,615,261 $71,029,853
60 Pi Network Pi Network PI $2,026,171,818 $18,056,359
61 Ethena Ethena ENA $1,945,749,935 $250,490,025
62 Pepe Pepe PEPE $1,941,434,190 $204,017,383
63 Jito Staked SOL Jito Staked SOL JITOSOL $1,926,667,630 $7,774,127
64 Binance-Peg WETH Binance-Peg WETH WETH $1,824,297,240 $31,336,318
65 Rain Rain RAIN $1,808,298,399 $30,738,136
66 Pump.fun Pump.fun PUMP $1,792,306,078 $106,014,839
67 Wrapped SOL Wrapped SOL SOL $1,759,569,379 $457,720,917
68 Jupiter Perpetuals Liquidity Provider Token Jupiter Perpetuals Liquidity Provider Token JLP $1,709,647,170 $17,923,923
69 HTX DAO HTX DAO HTX $1,654,168,024 $12,007,672
70 Ondo Ondo ONDO $1,615,313,583 $41,213,236
71 Kaspa Kaspa KAS $1,569,017,268 $36,237,388
72 Quant Quant QNT $1,506,721,588 $88,709,235
73 Worldcoin Worldcoin WLD $1,492,680,568 $76,664,656
74 Aptos Aptos APT $1,469,547,027 $211,841,238
75 POL (ex-MATIC) POL (ex-MATIC) POL $1,413,925,968 $40,777,575
76 PAX Gold PAX Gold PAXG $1,413,847,350 $86,031,495
77 syrupUSDC syrupUSDC SYRUPUSDC $1,367,484,647 $8,365,658
78 USDtb USDtb USDTB $1,338,803,881 $279,857
79 BFUSD BFUSD BFUSD $1,318,923,669 $10,532,090
80 KuCoin KuCoin KCS $1,303,989,799 $9,942,480
81 Binance Bridged USDC (BNB Smart Chain) Binance Bridged USDC (BNB Smart Chain) USDC $1,288,637,672 $150,083,316
82 Rocket Pool ETH Rocket Pool ETH RETH $1,284,027,669 $6,606,509
83 Sky Sky SKY $1,267,333,088 $30,861,126
84 Ripple USD Ripple USD RLUSD $1,260,680,872 $26,539,350
85 Gate Gate GT $1,237,222,354 $3,490,120
86 Global Dollar Global Dollar USDG $1,230,127,671 $12,881,434
87 Wrapped BNB Wrapped BNB WBNB $1,229,109,125 $248,561,195
88 Algorand Algorand ALGO $1,221,954,500 $34,142,337
89 Circle USYC Circle USYC USYC $1,214,090,513 $221,776
90 Official Trump Official Trump TRUMP $1,205,804,331 $171,957,865
91 Arbitrum Arbitrum ARB $1,201,188,394 $83,009,044
92 Provenance Blockchain Provenance Blockchain HASH $1,198,184,790 $837
93 Flare Flare FLR $1,173,260,294 $3,787,589
94 Binance Staked SOL Binance Staked SOL BNSOL $1,160,448,813 $3,848,406
95 Cosmos Hub Cosmos Hub ATOM $1,153,998,875 $28,592,976
96 Filecoin Filecoin FIL $1,153,787,930 $110,543,267
97 VeChain VeChain VET $1,140,050,652 $13,478,758
98 Kelp DAO Restaked ETH Kelp DAO Restaked ETH RSETH $1,078,337,798 $524,330
99 Function FBTC Function FBTC FBTC $1,068,408,372 $46,864
100 Lombard Staked BTC Lombard Staked BTC LBTC $1,032,206,398 $3,286,206
101 Liquid Staked ETH Liquid Staked ETH LSETH $1,012,713,912 $42,496
102 Solv Protocol BTC Solv Protocol BTC SOLVBTC $997,098,957 $273,141
103 syrupUSDT syrupUSDT SYRUPUSDT $995,294,787 $401,096
104 XDC Network XDC Network XDC $984,672,020 $24,142,596
105 NEXO NEXO NEXO $947,601,097 $7,590,483
106 Superstate Short Duration U.S. Government Securities Fund (USTB) Superstate Short Duration U.S. Government Securities Fund (USTB) USTB $926,203,875 $0
107 First Digital USD First Digital USD FDUSD $923,552,685 $1,685,749,099
108 Kinetiq Staked HYPE Kinetiq Staked HYPE KHYPE $913,802,680 $6,408,940
109 Render Render RENDER $905,666,692 $32,281,224
110 Sei Sei SEI $886,690,675 $45,231,891
111 Story Story IP $847,778,808 $58,091,674
112 PancakeSwap PancakeSwap CAKE $809,289,410 $38,131,638
113 Bonk Bonk BONK $790,014,810 $52,186,190
114 Morpho Morpho MORPHO $783,625,127 $6,085,227
115 Jupiter Jupiter JUP $780,149,290 $22,732,046
116 OUSG OUSG OUSG $772,528,184 $0
117 Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Fund Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Fund JAAA $762,507,497 $0
118 Mantle Staked Ether Mantle Staked Ether METH $753,101,305 $686,420
119 Renzo Restaked ETH Renzo Restaked ETH EZETH $744,802,919 $136,800
120 Arbitrum Bridged WBTC (Arbitrum One) Arbitrum Bridged WBTC (Arbitrum One) WBTC $741,248,161 $47,762,224
121 clBTC clBTC CLBTC $699,995,374 $6
122 Pudgy Penguins Pudgy Penguins PENGU $689,455,451 $78,275,479
123 Ondo US Dollar Yield Ondo US Dollar Yield USDY $687,338,876 $163,814
124 Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Artificial Superintelligence Alliance FET $680,019,544 $63,840,998
125 Dash Dash DASH $674,337,689 $75,405,843
126 Jupiter Staked SOL Jupiter Staked SOL JUPSOL $655,998,518 $2,750,692
127 SPX6900 SPX6900 SPX $641,499,032 $27,255,579
128 Polygon Bridged USDC (Polygon PoS) Polygon Bridged USDC (Polygon PoS) USDC.E $638,404,332 $31,427,606
129 Polygon PoS Bridged DAI (Polygon POS) Polygon PoS Bridged DAI (Polygon POS) DAI $627,817,446 $105,034,476
130 USDai USDai USDAI $621,975,292 $1,230,739
131 Optimism Optimism OP $612,454,864 $46,669,197
132 StakeWise Staked ETH StakeWise Staked ETH OSETH $611,447,523 $359,491
133 Beldex Beldex BDX $610,699,771 $8,719,616
134 Virtuals Protocol Virtuals Protocol VIRTUAL $607,002,901 $61,314,573
135 Aerodrome Finance Aerodrome Finance AERO $606,961,401 $15,814,969
136 Curve DAO Curve DAO CRV $601,389,353 $60,163,612
137 Injective Injective INJ $583,096,389 $44,813,107
138 Lido DAO Lido DAO LDO $581,557,678 $26,320,007
139 L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Base) L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Base) WETH $572,422,193 $338,639,905
140 Starknet Starknet STRK $570,444,579 $86,427,302
141 tBTC tBTC TBTC $568,200,954 $5,144,035
142 Stacks Stacks STX $564,241,531 $10,018,693
143 MYX Finance MYX Finance MYX $559,474,965 $33,013,727
144 Marinade Staked SOL Marinade Staked SOL MSOL $553,569,233 $2,292,965
145 Usual USD Usual USD USD0 $548,512,819 $1,262,718
146 Celestia Celestia TIA $544,895,643 $152,906,837
147 Telcoin Telcoin TEL $544,472,521 $6,254,631
148 AB AB AB $537,522,008 $9,086,605
149 The Graph The Graph GRT $528,508,627 $15,121,438
150 Tezos Tezos XTZ $523,016,410 $18,121,016
151 Arbitrum Bridged WETH (Arbitrum One) Arbitrum Bridged WETH (Arbitrum One) WETH $519,401,134 $63,664,826
152 Ether.fi Ether.fi ETHFI $496,707,330 $31,213,147
153 USDD USDD USDD $495,688,254 $7,534,529
154 TrueUSD TrueUSD TUSD $492,497,454 $6,362,617
155 cgETH Hashkey Cloud cgETH Hashkey Cloud CGETH.HASHKEY $491,909,683 $266
156 Mantle Bridged USDT (Mantle) Mantle Bridged USDT (Mantle) USDT $481,614,531 $1,094,682
157 Ultima Ultima ULTIMA $476,597,867 $16,059,088
158 GTETH GTETH GTETH $464,469,814 $109,533
159 Kaia Kaia KAIA $463,941,342 $5,730,525
160 FLOKI FLOKI FLOKI $462,859,533 $29,054,434
161 Stader ETHx Stader ETHx ETHX $459,998,558 $1,158,582
162 IOTA IOTA IOTA $458,248,494 $5,119,256
163 Spiko EU T-Bills Money Market Fund Spiko EU T-Bills Money Market Fund EUTBL $444,171,686 $0
164 Ether.Fi Liquid ETH Ether.Fi Liquid ETH LIQUIDETH $441,402,743 $4,415
165 Pendle Pendle PENDLE $440,315,465 $51,738,635
166 Ethereum Name Service Ethereum Name Service ENS $436,979,368 $26,358,019
167 Pyth Network Pyth Network PYTH $428,964,068 $14,388,919
168 Trust Wallet Trust Wallet TWT $425,038,488 $11,848,305
169 Lorenzo Wrapped Bitcoin Lorenzo Wrapped Bitcoin ENZOBTC $424,833,320 $3
170 Steakhouse USDC Morpho Vault Steakhouse USDC Morpho Vault STEAKUSDC $423,734,484 $0
171 JUST JUST JST $421,149,492 $58,213,657
172 GHO GHO GHO $418,727,952 $11,384,048
173 Bitcoin SV Bitcoin SV BSV $415,170,836 $10,404,534
174 BitTorrent BitTorrent BTT $409,258,412 $11,261,113
175 Basic Attention Basic Attention BAT $408,920,374 $74,178,750
176 Plasma Plasma XPL $408,430,673 $49,863,558
177 Conflux Conflux CFX $407,401,876 $15,598,988
178 Sonic Sonic S $405,292,942 $30,274,187
179 Swell Ethereum Swell Ethereum SWETH $403,351,817 $242,338
180 Helium Helium HNT $401,687,956 $4,917,384
181 USDB USDB USDB $401,548,787 $112,331
182 The Sandbox The Sandbox SAND $400,831,604 $19,564,605
183 sBTC sBTC SBTC $400,337,772 $45,065
184 DoubleZero DoubleZero 2Z $397,520,185 $17,508,349
185 Sun Token Sun Token SUN $394,766,755 $21,548,032
186 Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH CBETH $390,686,219 $13,554,928
187 Decred Decred DCR $388,735,477 $4,213,420
188 AINFT AINFT NFT $386,007,178 $28,977,986
189 Binance-Peg Dogecoin Binance-Peg Dogecoin DOGE $379,700,939 $2,429,058
190 Flow Flow FLOW $373,991,342 $3,853,106
191 Avalanche Bridged BTC (Avalanche) Avalanche Bridged BTC (Avalanche) BTC.B $372,447,336 $20,466,640
192 dogwifhat dogwifhat WIF $372,130,354 $79,331,263
193 ether.fi Staked ETH ether.fi Staked ETH EETH $370,510,267 $4,577
194 Olympus Olympus OHM $369,607,110 $417,868
195 Merlin Chain Merlin Chain MERL $369,192,301 $40,808,822
196 JasmyCoin JasmyCoin JASMY $357,976,091 $13,641,704
197 GALA GALA GALA $356,173,897 $31,093,683
198 Ape and Pepe Ape and Pepe APEPE $351,118,586 $20,097,718
199 BENQI Liquid Staked AVAX BENQI Liquid Staked AVAX SAVAX $350,497,502 $1,732,282
200 Gnosis Gnosis GNO $345,143,732 $4,728,551
201 Wrapped HYPE Wrapped HYPE WHYPE $344,842,317 $20,335,236
202 Theta Network Theta Network THETA $339,290,092 $17,941,123
203 EURC EURC EURC $334,125,139 $9,400,094
204 Fasttoken Fasttoken FTN $332,590,733 $1,769,895
205 Compound Compound COMP $332,154,633 $98,023,242
206 Kinesis Gold Kinesis Gold KAU $326,067,657 $582,893
207 Monad Monad MON $324,536,548 $433,949,813
208 Arbitrum Bridged Wrapped eETH (Arbitrum) Arbitrum Bridged Wrapped eETH (Arbitrum) WEETH $323,669,780 $903,428
209 Fartcoin Fartcoin FARTCOIN $323,603,019 $94,333,031
210 USX USX USX $322,396,982 $2,267,728
211 ZKsync ZKsync ZK $321,874,833 $16,332,485
212 Vaulta Vaulta A $319,851,382 $20,532,344
213 Maple Finance Maple Finance SYRUP $315,667,975 $16,797,329
214 Hajimi Hajimi 哈基米 $314,657,152 $2,491,285
215 MimbleWimbleCoin MimbleWimbleCoin MWC $313,096,683 $130,815
216 Decentraland Decentraland MANA $312,616,807 $17,791,153
217 Binance-Peg BUSD Binance-Peg BUSD BUSD $312,186,326 $1,050,443
218 Vision Vision VSN $310,435,842 $1,148,317
219 Chiliz Chiliz CHZ $309,716,631 $34,045,983
220 SwissBorg SwissBorg BORG $305,811,747 $510,684
221 NEO NEO NEO $301,753,124 $9,302,427
222 Undeads Games Undeads Games UDS $301,002,804 $1,373,431
223 Unit Bitcoin Unit Bitcoin UBTC $297,557,910 $43,263,472
224 Mantle Restaked ETH Mantle Restaked ETH CMETH $296,066,259 $1,561,309
225 Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund JTRSY $295,906,836 $0
226 Raydium Raydium RAY $295,327,844 $23,163,741
227 Frax Ether Frax Ether FRXETH $293,895,779 $7,195,776
228 TOMI TOMI TOMI $283,448,358 $119,966
229 Polygon PoS Bridged WETH (Polygon POS) Polygon PoS Bridged WETH (Polygon POS) WETH $283,413,694 $5,884,781
230 Zebec Network Zebec Network ZBCN $283,192,803 $12,791,323
231 Legacy Frax Dollar Legacy Frax Dollar FRAX $281,774,652 $472,792
232 EigenCloud (prev. EigenLayer) EigenCloud (prev. EigenLayer) EIGEN $281,081,612 $27,825,974
233 Cap USD Cap USD CUSD $276,916,211 $80,524
234 Aster Staked BNB Aster Staked BNB ASBNB $276,792,204 $32,274
235 LayerZero LayerZero ZRO $275,171,555 $25,033,270
236 Arweave Arweave AR $272,089,090 $20,328,059
237 Falcon Finance Falcon Finance FF $269,285,009 $26,352,937
238 crvUSD crvUSD CRVUSD $266,675,395 $6,214,781
239 1INCH 1INCH 1INCH $263,899,559 $9,501,464
240 Fidelity Digital Interest Token Fidelity Digital Interest Token FDIT $263,313,200 $0
241 Cheems Token Cheems Token CHEEMS $263,280,318 $1,694,299
242 Wrapped AVAX Wrapped AVAX WAVAX $259,052,279 $62,886,447
243 WEMIX WEMIX WEMIX $257,982,223 $4,106,535
244 Ethena Staked ENA Ethena Staked ENA SENA $256,937,203 $439,559
245 Mantle Bridged WETH (Mantle) Mantle Bridged WETH (Mantle) WETH $251,724,566 $972,068
246 Golem Golem GLM $250,885,973 $14,449,185
247 Immutable Immutable IMX $249,579,885 $19,280,805
248 eCash eCash XEC $247,195,337 $4,666,040
249 0G 0G 0G $246,773,283 $13,525,204
250 Walrus Walrus WAL $242,303,515 $19,170,598