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 $1,821,653,798,973 $39,502,887,223
2 Ethereum Ethereum ETH $365,810,836,614 $10,971,026,799
3 Tether Tether USDT $184,620,560,522 $43,072,165,972
4 XRP XRP XRP $132,335,130,626 $1,702,353,636
5 BNB BNB BNB $122,507,922,594 $954,966,365
6 Solana Solana SOL $76,812,605,703 $3,269,986,598
7 USDC USDC USDC $76,592,606,568 $3,346,872,218
8 TRON TRON TRX $26,719,293,579 $383,472,562
9 Lido Staked Ether Lido Staked Ether STETH $26,092,777,909 $23,644,781
10 Dogecoin Dogecoin DOGE $22,730,849,673 $678,543,918
11 Cardano Cardano ADA $15,517,106,228 $541,013,699
12 Figure Heloc Figure Heloc FIGR_HELOC $14,281,293,121 $146,771
13 WhiteBIT Coin WhiteBIT Coin WBT $12,588,272,202 $47,113,646
14 Wrapped stETH Wrapped stETH WSTETH $12,195,159,763 $45,431,935
15 Wrapped Bitcoin Wrapped Bitcoin WBTC $11,363,364,769 $92,285,797
16 Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash BCH $10,994,646,554 $451,379,280
17 Wrapped Beacon ETH Wrapped Beacon ETH WBETH $10,707,002,387 $5,815,833
18 USDS USDS USDS $9,411,288,109 $6,245,630
19 Chainlink Chainlink LINK $9,268,822,113 $313,900,457
20 LEO Token LEO Token LEO $9,076,919,738 $393,487
21 Hyperliquid Hyperliquid HYPE $8,986,798,614 $225,117,334
22 Binance Bridged USDT (BNB Smart Chain) Binance Bridged USDT (BNB Smart Chain) BSC-USD $8,983,580,224 $902,229,327
23 Stellar Stellar XLM $8,140,972,697 $85,062,029
24 WETH WETH WETH $7,951,187,542 $92,314,759
25 Monero Monero XMR $7,763,111,886 $137,199,066
26 Wrapped eETH Wrapped eETH WEETH $7,731,238,211 $25,014,350
27 Zcash Zcash ZEC $7,220,159,192 $631,738,977
28 Ethena USDe Ethena USDe USDE $7,180,134,835 $82,476,750
29 Coinbase Wrapped BTC Coinbase Wrapped BTC CBBTC $6,533,130,566 $193,574,892
30 Litecoin Litecoin LTC $6,424,840,389 $340,517,847
31 Hedera Hedera HBAR $6,112,466,528 $119,132,760
32 Avalanche Avalanche AVAX $5,943,962,009 $342,464,732
33 Sui Sui SUI $5,680,146,022 $422,389,229
34 Shiba Inu Shiba Inu SHIB $4,990,727,676 $82,459,221
35 Dai Dai DAI $4,437,649,155 $65,141,609
36 World Liberty Financial World Liberty Financial WLFI $4,344,254,604 $105,575,851
37 Cronos Cronos CRO $4,036,174,153 $11,599,618
38 sUSDS sUSDS SUSDS $4,032,831,301 $16,671,388
39 Toncoin Toncoin TON $3,998,258,119 $83,833,106
40 Ethena Staked USDe Ethena Staked USDe SUSDE $3,909,989,175 $56,050,899
41 Uniswap Uniswap UNI $3,875,600,965 $253,543,184
42 PayPal USD PayPal USD PYUSD $3,867,261,334 $34,691,438
43 USDT0 USDT0 USDT0 $3,809,330,287 $154,654,514
44 Polkadot Polkadot DOT $3,716,368,905 $79,443,137
45 Mantle Mantle MNT $3,527,240,022 $204,359,585
46 Canton Canton CC $3,074,970,053 $9,958,702
47 Bittensor Bittensor TAO $2,864,833,003 $72,449,819
48 Aave Aave AAVE $2,728,960,204 $230,156,679
49 USD1 USD1 USD1 $2,716,676,605 $257,850,305
50 Bitget Token Bitget Token BGB $2,529,807,183 $2,642,272
51 MemeCore MemeCore M $2,414,956,375 $24,897,640
52 NEAR Protocol NEAR Protocol NEAR $2,376,835,330 $99,880,855
53 BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund BUIDL $2,317,294,422 $0
54 OKB OKB OKB $2,234,759,700 $19,884,179
55 Tether Gold Tether Gold XAUT $2,201,348,341 $192,328,448
56 Falcon USD Falcon USD USDF $2,186,457,271 $572,356
57 Aster Aster ASTER $2,178,365,834 $179,666,553
58 Internet Computer Internet Computer ICP $2,160,257,720 $71,076,016
59 Ethereum Classic Ethereum Classic ETC $2,153,353,208 $40,202,585
60 Pi Network Pi Network PI $2,021,147,725 $18,431,664
61 Ethena Ethena ENA $1,985,279,318 $245,956,981
62 Pepe Pepe PEPE $1,953,089,462 $199,180,402
63 Jito Staked SOL Jito Staked SOL JITOSOL $1,931,575,104 $7,871,778
64 Binance-Peg WETH Binance-Peg WETH WETH $1,831,627,279 $35,254,011
65 Rain Rain RAIN $1,821,205,250 $30,255,137
66 Pump.fun Pump.fun PUMP $1,811,765,737 $104,539,733
67 Wrapped SOL Wrapped SOL SOL $1,762,840,931 $453,512,300
68 Jupiter Perpetuals Liquidity Provider Token Jupiter Perpetuals Liquidity Provider Token JLP $1,710,887,919 $17,920,162
69 HTX DAO HTX DAO HTX $1,654,200,790 $11,967,494
70 Ondo Ondo ONDO $1,624,074,950 $40,430,802
71 Kaspa Kaspa KAS $1,602,935,642 $35,976,828
72 Quant Quant QNT $1,532,302,180 $88,485,761
73 Worldcoin Worldcoin WLD $1,513,342,636 $76,900,384
74 Aptos Aptos APT $1,483,563,727 $212,296,033
75 POL (ex-MATIC) POL (ex-MATIC) POL $1,420,243,073 $40,216,140
76 PAX Gold PAX Gold PAXG $1,418,121,812 $74,901,416
77 syrupUSDC syrupUSDC SYRUPUSDC $1,367,733,974 $7,830,004
78 USDtb USDtb USDTB $1,338,254,855 $279,845
79 BFUSD BFUSD BFUSD $1,318,731,305 $10,542,414
80 KuCoin KuCoin KCS $1,303,339,703 $10,294,925
81 Binance Bridged USDC (BNB Smart Chain) Binance Bridged USDC (BNB Smart Chain) USDC $1,288,727,361 $122,423,062
82 Sky Sky SKY $1,286,352,494 $32,093,133
83 Rocket Pool ETH Rocket Pool ETH RETH $1,286,054,600 $6,008,524
84 Ripple USD Ripple USD RLUSD $1,260,503,061 $25,652,807
85 Wrapped BNB Wrapped BNB WBNB $1,234,770,371 $418,657,518
86 Gate Gate GT $1,234,109,834 $3,571,869
87 Global Dollar Global Dollar USDG $1,230,249,954 $12,688,877
88 Algorand Algorand ALGO $1,225,296,329 $33,453,857
89 Circle USYC Circle USYC USYC $1,214,090,513 $221,776
90 Official Trump Official Trump TRUMP $1,210,710,870 $168,117,368
91 Arbitrum Arbitrum ARB $1,203,558,447 $82,624,819
92 Provenance Blockchain Provenance Blockchain HASH $1,201,423,634 $911
93 Flare Flare FLR $1,181,086,569 $3,782,533
94 Binance Staked SOL Binance Staked SOL BNSOL $1,165,377,053 $3,878,963
95 Cosmos Hub Cosmos Hub ATOM $1,159,076,070 $27,560,911
96 Filecoin Filecoin FIL $1,157,517,111 $109,551,824
97 VeChain VeChain VET $1,147,508,787 $13,301,585
98 Kelp DAO Restaked ETH Kelp DAO Restaked ETH RSETH $1,079,564,106 $526,635
99 Function FBTC Function FBTC FBTC $1,072,684,519 $45,969
100 Lombard Staked BTC Lombard Staked BTC LBTC $1,036,284,449 $2,994,062
101 Liquid Staked ETH Liquid Staked ETH LSETH $1,013,469,691 $41,572
102 Solv Protocol BTC Solv Protocol BTC SOLVBTC $996,833,477 $271,879
103 syrupUSDT syrupUSDT SYRUPUSDT $995,242,678 $401,063
104 XDC Network XDC Network XDC $984,943,265 $23,973,506
105 NEXO NEXO NEXO $947,776,571 $7,793,296
106 Kinetiq Staked HYPE Kinetiq Staked HYPE KHYPE $931,270,410 $10,241,545
107 Superstate Short Duration U.S. Government Securities Fund (USTB) Superstate Short Duration U.S. Government Securities Fund (USTB) USTB $926,203,875 $0
108 First Digital USD First Digital USD FDUSD $923,460,043 $1,657,847,494
109 Render Render RENDER $914,746,577 $32,048,208
110 Sei Sei SEI $891,728,041 $44,527,824
111 Story Story IP $835,932,453 $51,710,076
112 PancakeSwap PancakeSwap CAKE $810,249,603 $40,299,493
113 Bonk Bonk BONK $791,838,043 $51,457,434
114 Jupiter Jupiter JUP $785,334,746 $22,516,323
115 Morpho Morpho MORPHO $784,085,764 $6,002,062
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 $754,048,566 $687,272
119 Renzo Restaked ETH Renzo Restaked ETH EZETH $745,493,289 $1,084,808
120 Arbitrum Bridged WBTC (Arbitrum One) Arbitrum Bridged WBTC (Arbitrum One) WBTC $743,784,157 $45,924,283
121 clBTC clBTC CLBTC $699,995,374 $6
122 Pudgy Penguins Pudgy Penguins PENGU $694,428,510 $76,843,631
123 Ondo US Dollar Yield Ondo US Dollar Yield USDY $686,705,088 $942,740
124 Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Artificial Superintelligence Alliance FET $686,301,775 $63,252,277
125 Dash Dash DASH $684,026,033 $101,149,013
126 SPX6900 SPX6900 SPX $655,609,907 $25,709,664
127 Jupiter Staked SOL Jupiter Staked SOL JUPSOL $655,378,896 $2,857,335
128 Polygon Bridged USDC (Polygon PoS) Polygon Bridged USDC (Polygon PoS) USDC.E $638,459,120 $33,333,986
129 Polygon PoS Bridged DAI (Polygon POS) Polygon PoS Bridged DAI (Polygon POS) DAI $627,890,536 $105,353,043
130 USDai USDai USDAI $622,561,109 $1,230,725
131 Optimism Optimism OP $615,757,809 $46,208,351
132 StakeWise Staked ETH StakeWise Staked ETH OSETH $613,998,226 $13,784
133 Aerodrome Finance Aerodrome Finance AERO $613,788,744 $16,282,983
134 Beldex Beldex BDX $612,582,202 $11,564,068
135 Virtuals Protocol Virtuals Protocol VIRTUAL $612,234,297 $60,824,285
136 Curve DAO Curve DAO CRV $604,823,029 $61,343,643
137 Injective Injective INJ $585,638,645 $45,044,475
138 Lido DAO Lido DAO LDO $584,512,902 $25,878,156
139 Starknet Starknet STRK $582,262,071 $81,422,480
140 L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Base) L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Base) WETH $572,849,892 $281,508,523
141 Stacks Stacks STX $568,795,716 $10,141,537
142 tBTC tBTC TBTC $568,371,237 $5,156,567
143 MYX Finance MYX Finance MYX $567,178,641 $32,616,649
144 Marinade Staked SOL Marinade Staked SOL MSOL $554,156,653 $2,436,270
145 Celestia Celestia TIA $549,652,101 $151,649,041
146 Usual USD Usual USD USD0 $549,201,961 $1,551,677
147 AB AB AB $537,592,580 $9,051,170
148 The Graph The Graph GRT $532,273,951 $14,840,742
149 Tezos Tezos XTZ $522,318,952 $18,473,264
150 Arbitrum Bridged WETH (Arbitrum One) Arbitrum Bridged WETH (Arbitrum One) WETH $520,431,407 $141,875,637
151 Telcoin Telcoin TEL $515,501,977 $4,924,935
152 Ether.fi Ether.fi ETHFI $498,715,691 $30,144,362
153 USDD USDD USDD $495,612,948 $7,566,255
154 TrueUSD TrueUSD TUSD $492,530,080 $6,331,856
155 cgETH Hashkey Cloud cgETH Hashkey Cloud CGETH.HASHKEY $491,909,683 $266
156 Mantle Bridged USDT (Mantle) Mantle Bridged USDT (Mantle) USDT $482,990,366 $1,108,199
157 Ultima Ultima ULTIMA $477,200,652 $16,673,855
158 FLOKI FLOKI FLOKI $467,793,196 $28,595,872
159 GTETH GTETH GTETH $465,458,144 $154,035
160 Kaia Kaia KAIA $465,133,018 $5,660,040
161 IOTA IOTA IOTA $461,054,007 $5,120,291
162 Stader ETHx Stader ETHx ETHX $460,883,906 $1,166,156
163 Spiko EU T-Bills Money Market Fund Spiko EU T-Bills Money Market Fund EUTBL $443,905,930 $0
164 Pendle Pendle PENDLE $441,435,094 $54,996,947
165 Ethereum Name Service Ethereum Name Service ENS $438,522,334 $26,163,587
166 Ether.Fi Liquid ETH Ether.Fi Liquid ETH LIQUIDETH $438,413,036 $3,459
167 Pyth Network Pyth Network PYTH $433,216,139 $14,300,643
168 Trust Wallet Trust Wallet TWT $427,630,862 $11,947,014
169 Lorenzo Wrapped Bitcoin Lorenzo Wrapped Bitcoin ENZOBTC $424,833,320 $3
170 JUST JUST JST $424,549,879 $58,363,697
171 Steakhouse USDC Morpho Vault Steakhouse USDC Morpho Vault STEAKUSDC $423,803,035 $0
172 Basic Attention Basic Attention BAT $419,920,466 $74,302,353
173 GHO GHO GHO $418,829,326 $11,185,167
174 Bitcoin SV Bitcoin SV BSV $417,334,470 $10,520,468
175 Plasma Plasma XPL $417,221,325 $49,320,362
176 BitTorrent BitTorrent BTT $409,050,563 $11,216,388
177 Conflux Conflux CFX $408,975,418 $15,556,430
178 Sonic Sonic S $407,493,702 $30,416,248
179 Swell Ethereum Swell Ethereum SWETH $404,220,773 $282,013
180 The Sandbox The Sandbox SAND $403,387,497 $19,854,182
181 DoubleZero DoubleZero 2Z $402,187,489 $16,473,189
182 USDB USDB USDB $401,887,181 $112,218
183 Helium Helium HNT $401,310,468 $5,037,883
184 sBTC sBTC SBTC $396,329,675 $46,070
185 Sun Token Sun Token SUN $394,947,352 $21,835,669
186 Decred Decred DCR $393,786,363 $4,053,777
187 Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH CBETH $391,197,357 $14,084,172
188 AINFT AINFT NFT $385,667,413 $29,093,283
189 Binance-Peg Dogecoin Binance-Peg Dogecoin DOGE $382,342,674 $2,344,939
190 dogwifhat dogwifhat WIF $376,745,163 $79,707,453
191 Flow Flow FLOW $375,040,290 $3,843,351
192 Avalanche Bridged BTC (Avalanche) Avalanche Bridged BTC (Avalanche) BTC.B $373,545,209 $22,423,157
193 ether.fi Staked ETH ether.fi Staked ETH EETH $371,242,115 $8,119
194 Olympus Olympus OHM $369,646,333 $410,295
195 JasmyCoin JasmyCoin JASMY $360,107,834 $13,402,997
196 GALA GALA GALA $359,216,358 $30,689,200
197 Merlin Chain Merlin Chain MERL $358,554,730 $30,592,028
198 Ape and Pepe Ape and Pepe APEPE $351,416,373 $19,713,825
199 BENQI Liquid Staked AVAX BENQI Liquid Staked AVAX SAVAX $349,670,853 $1,657,038
200 Wrapped HYPE Wrapped HYPE WHYPE $349,306,287 $20,198,003
201 Gnosis Gnosis GNO $346,164,011 $4,747,520
202 Theta Network Theta Network THETA $342,229,014 $17,853,714
203 EURC EURC EURC $333,926,078 $8,882,536
204 Fasttoken Fasttoken FTN $332,932,892 $1,845,360
205 Fartcoin Fartcoin FARTCOIN $332,802,892 $92,727,815
206 Kinesis Gold Kinesis Gold KAU $325,871,759 $549,883
207 ZKsync ZKsync ZK $325,163,348 $16,187,932
208 Arbitrum Bridged Wrapped eETH (Arbitrum) Arbitrum Bridged Wrapped eETH (Arbitrum) WEETH $324,366,052 $917,729
209 USX USX USX $322,880,816 $2,254,933
210 Vaulta Vaulta A $321,265,482 $19,692,465
211 Monad Monad MON $320,801,074 $463,621,788
212 MimbleWimbleCoin MimbleWimbleCoin MWC $320,455,733 $130,520
213 Compound Compound COMP $318,341,882 $87,702,403
214 Maple Finance Maple Finance SYRUP $316,169,479 $17,514,441
215 Decentraland Decentraland MANA $314,117,484 $17,795,486
216 Binance-Peg BUSD Binance-Peg BUSD BUSD $312,352,551 $985,774
217 Vision Vision VSN $310,621,443 $1,200,254
218 Chiliz Chiliz CHZ $310,559,898 $33,910,314
219 Hajimi Hajimi 哈基米 $306,571,932 $2,291,933
220 SwissBorg SwissBorg BORG $305,808,506 $506,546
221 NEO NEO NEO $303,261,113 $9,275,371
222 Undeads Games Undeads Games UDS $301,173,629 $1,368,037
223 Unit Bitcoin Unit Bitcoin UBTC $298,629,515 $40,215,948
224 Mantle Restaked ETH Mantle Restaked ETH CMETH $296,788,274 $1,555,362
225 Raydium Raydium RAY $296,423,424 $23,064,307
226 Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund JTRSY $295,906,836 $0
227 Frax Ether Frax Ether FRXETH $294,259,488 $7,201,769
228 TOMI TOMI TOMI $287,295,206 $118,236
229 Zebec Network Zebec Network ZBCN $285,235,018 $13,157,744
230 Polygon PoS Bridged WETH (Polygon POS) Polygon PoS Bridged WETH (Polygon POS) WETH $283,696,790 $5,538,541
231 EigenCloud (prev. EigenLayer) EigenCloud (prev. EigenLayer) EIGEN $283,055,572 $26,379,035
232 Legacy Frax Dollar Legacy Frax Dollar FRAX $281,723,430 $455,318
233 Aster Staked BNB Aster Staked BNB ASBNB $278,397,558 $32,155
234 LayerZero LayerZero ZRO $277,109,953 $24,749,525
235 Cap USD Cap USD CUSD $276,809,694 $83,914
236 Falcon Finance Falcon Finance FF $273,199,270 $25,894,080
237 Arweave Arweave AR $272,676,718 $19,838,226
238 crvUSD crvUSD CRVUSD $266,678,509 $4,095,987
239 1INCH 1INCH 1INCH $265,373,738 $9,405,252
240 Fidelity Digital Interest Token Fidelity Digital Interest Token FDIT $263,313,200 $0
241 Cheems Token Cheems Token CHEEMS $258,714,326 $1,635,231
242 Wrapped AVAX Wrapped AVAX WAVAX $258,141,688 $63,626,319
243 WEMIX WEMIX WEMIX $257,870,872 $3,778,050
244 Ethena Staked ENA Ethena Staked ENA SENA $257,097,522 $434,806
245 Golem Golem GLM $252,924,021 $14,570,685
246 Immutable Immutable IMX $252,899,325 $19,481,117
247 Mantle Bridged WETH (Mantle) Mantle Bridged WETH (Mantle) WETH $251,779,126 $973,507
248 0G 0G 0G $249,366,642 $14,746,686
249 eCash eCash XEC $249,031,131 $4,653,400
250 Walrus Walrus WAL $246,107,105 $19,229,638