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 $1,757,577,793,396 $48,130,919,203
2 Ethereum Ethereum ETH $356,067,513,674 $23,507,381,705
3 Tether Tether USDT $186,054,008,851 $80,122,892,172
4 BNB BNB BNB $122,225,206,396 $1,267,747,292
5 XRP XRP XRP $113,971,192,945 $2,421,292,425
6 USDC USDC USDC $71,187,923,909 $8,892,377,963
7 Solana Solana SOL $69,557,654,046 $4,114,058,077
8 Lido Staked Ether Lido Staked Ether STETH $28,009,046,794 $28,568,934
9 TRON TRON TRX $27,868,109,290 $620,100,832
10 Dogecoin Dogecoin DOGE $20,574,947,515 $1,062,040,859
11 Figure Heloc Figure Heloc FIGR_HELOC $15,163,060,485 $66,152,754
12 Cardano Cardano ADA $12,899,412,578 $467,301,837
13 Wrapped stETH Wrapped stETH WSTETH $12,549,196,876 $7,738,875
14 Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash BCH $11,640,875,129 $285,772,539
15 WhiteBIT Coin WhiteBIT Coin WBT $11,497,192,019 $49,021,599
16 Wrapped Bitcoin Wrapped Bitcoin WBTC $10,968,991,110 $194,970,583
17 Wrapped Beacon ETH Wrapped Beacon ETH WBETH $10,814,215,619 $2,745,376
18 Wrapped eETH Wrapped eETH WEETH $9,726,700,985 $40,475,801
19 USDS USDS USDS $9,256,687,831 $9,932,115
20 Binance Bridged USDT (BNB Smart Chain) Binance Bridged USDT (BNB Smart Chain) BSC-USD $8,969,933,296 $1,402,574,803
21 Monero Monero XMR $8,708,370,650 $102,081,580
22 LEO Token LEO Token LEO $8,502,630,364 $803,588
23 Chainlink Chainlink LINK $8,245,515,516 $334,565,303
24 Hyperliquid Hyperliquid HYPE $7,600,846,671 $765,914,658
25 Coinbase Wrapped BTC Coinbase Wrapped BTC CBBTC $6,959,297,542 $409,195,868
26 WETH WETH WETH $6,683,085,085 $292,404,925
27 Stellar Stellar XLM $6,681,425,409 $110,830,159
28 Ethena USDe Ethena USDe USDE $6,586,284,767 $133,767,006
29 Canton Canton CC $6,156,363,562 $27,716,169
30 Zcash Zcash ZEC $6,021,979,526 $511,352,752
31 Litecoin Litecoin LTC $5,220,443,596 $324,711,600
32 Sui Sui SUI $5,181,275,981 $628,968,573
33 Avalanche Avalanche AVAX $5,080,189,229 $278,318,320
34 USD1 USD1 USD1 $5,067,171,432 $1,600,365,284
35 Hedera Hedera HBAR $4,492,007,156 $121,252,837
36 Shiba Inu Shiba Inu SHIB $4,489,572,930 $109,341,392
37 USDT0 USDT0 USDT0 $4,426,856,156 $146,588,462
38 World Liberty Financial World Liberty Financial WLFI $4,413,908,829 $91,603,022
39 Dai Dai DAI $4,353,002,090 $77,735,953
40 sUSDS sUSDS SUSDS $4,255,985,552 $9,050,522
41 PayPal USD PayPal USD PYUSD $3,797,848,782 $135,319,711
42 Ethena Staked USDe Ethena Staked USDe SUSDE $3,782,193,836 $27,127,708
43 Toncoin Toncoin TON $3,674,995,717 $83,029,511
44 Cronos Cronos CRO $3,552,096,000 $12,384,265
45 Rain Rain RAIN $3,332,615,607 $38,958,015
46 Polkadot Polkadot DOT $3,010,047,986 $135,449,965
47 Uniswap Uniswap UNI $2,991,910,950 $169,030,162
48 Mantle Mantle MNT $2,936,924,810 $58,572,974
49 Tether Gold Tether Gold XAUT $2,877,154,530 $775,130,043
50 MemeCore MemeCore M $2,680,608,518 $9,371,779
51 Bitget Token Bitget Token BGB $2,493,545,534 $20,429,741
52 Aave Aave AAVE $2,377,871,730 $399,571,860
53 PAX Gold PAX Gold PAXG $2,325,992,341 $1,016,817,845
54 Bittensor Bittensor TAO $2,202,969,155 $95,488,847
55 OKB OKB OKB $2,180,847,412 $26,838,521
56 Falcon USD Falcon USD USDF $2,157,816,115 $12,901,561
57 Pepe Pepe PEPE $2,027,008,183 $357,526,362
58 NEAR Protocol NEAR Protocol NEAR $1,862,304,591 $131,735,393
59 Kelp DAO Restaked ETH Kelp DAO Restaked ETH RSETH $1,788,584,980 $129,835
60 Binance-Peg WETH Binance-Peg WETH WETH $1,785,713,359 $44,961,280
61 Pump.fun Pump.fun PUMP $1,760,189,161 $258,248,539
62 Jito Staked SOL Jito Staked SOL JITOSOL $1,755,369,257 $16,753,847
63 Ethereum Classic Ethereum Classic ETC $1,754,927,002 $50,786,764
64 Internet Computer Internet Computer ICP $1,724,260,862 $57,563,901
65 BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund BUIDL $1,685,562,196 $0
66 Jupiter Perpetuals Liquidity Provider Token Jupiter Perpetuals Liquidity Provider Token JLP $1,650,246,823 $41,331,288
67 Ondo Ondo ONDO $1,631,004,007 $71,785,273
68 HTX DAO HTX DAO HTX $1,626,829,420 $46,960,289
69 Circle USYC Circle USYC USYC $1,608,230,246 $1,335
70 Aster Aster ASTER $1,588,491,796 $165,043,499
71 Global Dollar Global Dollar USDG $1,573,525,644 $59,204,345
72 Wrapped SOL Wrapped SOL SOL $1,518,380,679 $1,494,172,459
73 Sky Sky SKY $1,517,137,174 $14,185,536
74 Worldcoin Worldcoin WLD $1,460,317,569 $588,731,983
75 KuCoin KuCoin KCS $1,419,265,358 $2,823,337
76 Ripple USD Ripple USD RLUSD $1,415,127,166 $88,428,685
77 Pi Network Pi Network PI $1,387,658,564 $13,576,399
78 Wrapped BNB Wrapped BNB WBNB $1,367,347,091 $349,621,298
79 syrupUSDC syrupUSDC SYRUPUSDC $1,350,354,495 $6,224,700
80 Binance Staked SOL Binance Staked SOL BNSOL $1,341,816,326 $1,572,672
81 Ethena Ethena ENA $1,325,212,776 $133,821,531
82 BFUSD BFUSD BFUSD $1,317,216,708 $6,239,846
83 Provenance Blockchain Provenance Blockchain HASH $1,297,885,570 $19,382
84 Binance Bridged USDC (BNB Smart Chain) Binance Bridged USDC (BNB Smart Chain) USDC $1,288,516,985 $224,490,051
85 Rocket Pool ETH Rocket Pool ETH RETH $1,234,516,090 $813,404
86 POL (ex-MATIC) POL (ex-MATIC) POL $1,231,922,005 $69,365,964
87 Aptos Aptos APT $1,191,656,875 $98,190,506
88 Gate Gate GT $1,133,103,428 $2,057,534
89 MYX Finance MYX Finance MYX $1,115,814,820 $16,565,232
90 USDD USDD USDD $1,111,657,951 $2,152,379
91 Quant Quant QNT $1,089,105,587 $17,441,976
92 Algorand Algorand ALGO $1,080,769,948 $45,725,673
93 Cosmos Hub Cosmos Hub ATOM $1,071,944,178 $46,933,426
94 Kaspa Kaspa KAS $1,043,574,816 $20,131,708
95 Lombard Staked BTC Lombard Staked BTC LBTC $985,421,953 $5,856,896
96 Midnight Midnight NIGHT $969,428,158 $11,132,955
97 Arbitrum Arbitrum ARB $968,582,694 $92,937,881
98 Function FBTC Function FBTC FBTC $965,024,690 $41,978
99 Render Render RENDER $959,690,186 $105,302,725
100 Official Trump Official Trump TRUMP $938,793,688 $154,742,086
101 NEXO NEXO NEXO $934,051,748 $6,987,384
102 River River RIVER $922,334,287 $99,805,058
103 Filecoin Filecoin FIL $920,125,274 $80,691,081
104 Flare Flare FLR $866,848,136 $5,468,500
105 Polygon Bridged USDC (Polygon PoS) Polygon Bridged USDC (Polygon PoS) USDC.E $866,558,688 $36,444,101
106 VeChain VeChain VET $858,193,074 $17,133,652
107 USDtb USDtb USDTB $857,292,688 $3,629,778
108 Mantle Staked Ether Mantle Staked Ether METH $841,945,546 $1,277,757
109 syrupUSDT syrupUSDT SYRUPUSDT $822,502,265 $482,327
110 Liquid Staked ETH Liquid Staked ETH LSETH $820,831,833 $60,289
111 Superstate Short Duration U.S. Government Securities Fund (USTB) Superstate Short Duration U.S. Government Securities Fund (USTB) USTB $820,191,304 $0
112 WrappedM by M0 WrappedM by M0 WM $756,635,272 $7,241,529
113 Bonk Bonk BONK $745,111,233 $73,695,396
114 Kinetiq Staked HYPE Kinetiq Staked HYPE KHYPE $730,870,141 $5,579,543
115 Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Fund Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Fund JAAA $727,063,633 $0
116 XDC Network XDC Network XDC $723,222,631 $23,825,774
117 Story Story IP $713,160,223 $81,138,497
118 Dash Dash DASH $711,067,302 $120,528,214
119 Solv Protocol BTC Solv Protocol BTC SOLVBTC $705,322,644 $139,182
120 Ondo US Dollar Yield Ondo US Dollar Yield USDY $703,469,037 $536,427
121 Arbitrum Bridged WBTC (Arbitrum One) Arbitrum Bridged WBTC (Arbitrum One) WBTC $692,357,035 $110,690,138
122 Sei Sei SEI $692,046,031 $26,474,470
123 clBTC clBTC CLBTC $688,796,555 $2
124 OUSG OUSG OUSG $687,520,775 $0
125 StakeWise Staked ETH StakeWise Staked ETH OSETH $682,003,904 $233,583
126 Jupiter Jupiter JUP $680,107,332 $87,477,265
127 Renzo Restaked ETH Renzo Restaked ETH EZETH $669,957,717 $275,515
128 Morpho Morpho MORPHO $654,817,291 $12,069,523
129 Spiko EU T-Bills Money Market Fund Spiko EU T-Bills Money Market Fund EUTBL $639,048,577 $0
130 Polygon PoS Bridged DAI (Polygon POS) Polygon PoS Bridged DAI (Polygon POS) DAI $638,239,854 $55,825,104
131 USDai USDai USDAI $635,434,105 $16,941,645
132 L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Base) L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Base) WETH $628,211,492 $409,226,593
133 PancakeSwap PancakeSwap CAKE $625,721,738 $32,882,110
134 COCA COCA COCA $620,822,031 $711,438
135 Jupiter Staked SOL Jupiter Staked SOL JUPSOL $611,676,467 $1,671,252
136 Binance-Peg XRP Binance-Peg XRP XRP $609,982,692 $2,420,097
137 Wrapped Flare Wrapped Flare WFLR $604,330,367 $3,483,734
138 Pudgy Penguins Pudgy Penguins PENGU $602,990,828 $153,791,678
139 Beldex Beldex BDX $591,886,275 $11,097,670
140 Usual USD Usual USD USD0 $581,884,969 $2,171,197
141 Arbitrum Bridged WETH (Arbitrum One) Arbitrum Bridged WETH (Arbitrum One) WETH $564,755,372 $298,558,980
142 Tezos Tezos XTZ $561,230,602 $20,415,155
143 Optimism Optimism OP $560,209,346 $75,843,656
144 Chiliz Chiliz CHZ $556,110,198 $71,140,141
145 Virtuals Protocol Virtuals Protocol VIRTUAL $537,620,230 $144,754,084
146 c8ntinuum c8ntinuum CTM $531,485,611 $1,066,152
147 Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund JTRSY $526,390,151 $0
148 ​​Stable ​​Stable STABLE $524,154,666 $75,906,537
149 tBTC tBTC TBTC $520,392,590 $12,347,652
150 Stacks Stacks STX $518,050,141 $12,184,096
151 Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Artificial Superintelligence Alliance FET $513,331,003 $66,530,000
152 GHO GHO GHO $511,818,548 $12,194,444
153 A7A5 A7A5 A7A5 $509,791,917 $575
154 Curve DAO Curve DAO CRV $499,320,969 $61,738,484
155 GTETH GTETH GTETH $496,707,966 $84,153
156 TrueUSD TrueUSD TUSD $493,440,133 $5,293,285
157 Fasttoken Fasttoken FTN $472,162,830 $10,505,008
158 First Digital USD First Digital USD FDUSD $467,226,726 $547,028,944
159 Lighter Lighter LIT $457,272,577 $99,737,365
160 Ether.Fi Liquid ETH Ether.Fi Liquid ETH LIQUIDETH $439,831,246 $13,437
161 Kinesis Silver Kinesis Silver KAG $437,551,556 $4,233,654
162 Injective Injective INJ $434,858,870 $38,841,270
163 Lido DAO Lido DAO LDO $431,893,747 $28,513,033
164 Kinesis Gold Kinesis Gold KAU $424,394,813 $816,965
165 Steakhouse USDC Morpho Vault Steakhouse USDC Morpho Vault STEAKUSDC $423,062,614 $7
166 Ether.fi Ether.fi ETHFI $422,778,978 $30,874,015
167 Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH CBETH $422,083,765 $5,309,292
168 Marinade Staked SOL Marinade Staked SOL MSOL $420,710,747 $1,825,178
169 DoubleZero DoubleZero 2Z $416,833,403 $39,664,888
170 Aerodrome Finance Aerodrome Finance AERO $415,899,107 $16,208,963
171 EURC EURC EURC $408,463,526 $55,882,440
172 sBTC sBTC SBTC $404,459,540 $123,589
173 Stader ETHx Stader ETHx ETHX $403,382,145 $160,954
174 Maple Finance Maple Finance SYRUP $398,814,896 $17,344,175
175 USDB USDB USDB $398,195,240 $167,041
176 Resolv USR Resolv USR USR $397,231,997 $865,076
177 pippin pippin PIPPIN $396,727,337 $84,789,884
178 Staked Aave Staked Aave STKAAVE $393,989,078 $126,083
179 BitTorrent BitTorrent BTT $392,770,020 $13,664,462
180 LayerZero LayerZero ZRO $391,526,667 $128,791,089
181 Resolv wstUSR Resolv wstUSR WSTUSR $390,116,113 $1,793,120
182 FLOKI FLOKI FLOKI $389,494,687 $33,674,943
183 Celestia Celestia TIA $387,560,490 $44,153,570
184 JUST JUST JST $387,094,419 $39,847,385
185 Cap USD Cap USD CUSD $380,741,214 $56,918
186 The Graph The Graph GRT $379,159,362 $19,627,310
187 Kaia Kaia KAIA $372,234,226 $21,404,291
188 Gnosis Gnosis GNO $368,948,523 $5,358,955
189 Axie Infinity Axie Infinity AXS $362,588,627 $256,235,538
190 Pyth Network Pyth Network PYTH $362,365,163 $57,979,290
191 Trust Wallet Trust Wallet TWT $360,846,507 $10,597,257
192 IOTA IOTA IOTA $357,205,145 $17,208,516
193 crvUSD crvUSD CRVUSD $354,288,475 $40,399,864
194 Wrapped ApeCoin Wrapped ApeCoin WAPE $354,072,256 $388,162
195 Starknet Starknet STRK $351,083,924 $38,001,002
196 Bitcoin SV Bitcoin SV BSV $349,240,261 $7,744,474
197 Sun Token Sun Token SUN $343,793,654 $46,725,592
198 Conflux Conflux CFX $343,527,968 $10,723,966
199 AINFT AINFT NFT $342,857,477 $18,788,769
200 Telcoin Telcoin TEL $340,726,792 $1,281,729
201 Ethereum Name Service Ethereum Name Service ENS $338,014,453 $20,428,657
202 SPX6900 SPX6900 SPX $333,321,440 $13,778,546
203 Avalanche Bridged BTC (Avalanche) Avalanche Bridged BTC (Avalanche) BTC.B $332,442,940 $15,587,848
204 JasmyCoin JasmyCoin JASMY $330,397,962 $21,089,621
205 ether.fi Staked ETH ether.fi Staked ETH EETH $324,651,567 $766,697
206 The Sandbox The Sandbox SAND $321,608,803 $36,027,624
207 Olympus Olympus OHM $321,584,458 $234,028
208 Pendle Pendle PENDLE $318,893,939 $51,235,645
209 Binance-Peg Dogecoin Binance-Peg Dogecoin DOGE $312,837,224 $1,053,520
210 Decred Decred DCR $311,047,361 $3,283,722
211 dogwifhat dogwifhat WIF $310,161,763 $110,869,351
212 Plasma Plasma XPL $299,545,399 $145,057,803
213 USX USX USX $297,660,429 $3,623,479
214 Wrapped STX (Velar) Wrapped STX (Velar) WSTX $294,244,764 $720
215 Binance-Peg BUSD Binance-Peg BUSD BUSD $289,715,742 $1,326,718
216 Unit Bitcoin Unit Bitcoin UBTC $287,464,567 $59,233,721
217 Fartcoin Fartcoin FARTCOIN $287,107,579 $64,182,282
218 Undeads Games Undeads Games UDS $286,585,622 $736,386
219 AB AB AB $282,554,081 $14,605,598
220 Kraken Wrapped BTC Kraken Wrapped BTC KBTC $277,114,243 $364,477
221 Aster Staked BNB Aster Staked BNB ASBNB $276,260,059 $140,761
222 Zebec Network Zebec Network ZBCN $274,301,704 $10,360,122
223 Legacy Frax Dollar Legacy Frax Dollar FRAX $273,823,219 $2,675,556
224 Kite Kite KITE $273,216,187 $197,332,818
225 GALA GALA GALA $272,185,789 $33,155,747
226 Staked USDai Staked USDai SUSDAI $269,292,271 $7,573,993
227 BENQI Liquid Staked AVAX BENQI Liquid Staked AVAX SAVAX $268,650,460 $914,822
228 Gate Wrapped BTC Gate Wrapped BTC GTBTC $266,447,828 $302,259
229 Raydium Raydium RAY $262,965,430 $36,896,963
230 Polygon PoS Bridged WETH (Polygon POS) Polygon PoS Bridged WETH (Polygon POS) WETH $262,507,328 $7,691,454
231 Onyxcoin Onyxcoin XCN $262,146,508 $25,473,436
232 Humanity Humanity H $261,604,385 $19,303,521
233 Theta Network Theta Network THETA $261,077,999 $8,387,164
234 Arbitrum Bridged Wrapped eETH (Arbitrum) Arbitrum Bridged Wrapped eETH (Arbitrum) WEETH $257,314,065 $7,255,430
235 Binance Wrapped BTC Binance Wrapped BTC BBTC $254,959,712 $6,757
236 Decentraland Decentraland MANA $253,462,423 $23,725,990
237 Basic Attention Basic Attention BAT $251,954,350 $12,977,773
238 BTSE Token BTSE Token BTSE $249,364,973 $11,946,815
239 ZKsync ZKsync ZK $249,026,975 $13,987,941
240 Sonic Sonic S $248,671,339 $21,934,074
241 Mantle Bridged WETH (Mantle) Mantle Bridged WETH (Mantle) WETH $247,281,930 $2,104,854
242 Staked Cap USD Staked Cap USD STCUSD $246,610,801 $8
243 NEO NEO NEO $243,790,909 $8,528,110
244 MimbleWimbleCoin MimbleWimbleCoin MWC $242,657,567 $128,972
245 Wrapped Aave Ethereum USDC Wrapped Aave Ethereum USDC WAETHUSDC $241,037,918 $29,417,008
246 Frax Ether Frax Ether FRXETH $240,927,364 $1,996,064
247 Arbitrum Bridged wstETH (Arbitrum) Arbitrum Bridged wstETH (Arbitrum) WSTETH $239,564,284 $728,192
248 Mantle Restaked ETH Mantle Restaked ETH CMETH $234,470,559 $4,361,007
249 Wrapped HYPE Wrapped HYPE WHYPE $232,495,984 $209,926,264
250 Compound Compound COMP $231,552,474 $14,393,159