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Top crypto gainers and losers today

See the coins that went up the most and fell the most over the last 24 hours on Coinbase and Kraken. Every market is filtered with a $1M volume floor so only real trading is ranked.

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How to read a list of top movers

A ranking by percentage change rewards whatever moved most, and the assets that move most are usually the ones with the least money behind them. A token that trades $20,000 a day can double on a single order. That is a fact about one order, not about the token, and the price you see is rarely a price you could sell at.

Three figures next to the percentage tell you how much weight a move can bear:

  • 24h volume. How many dollars changed hands. The tables hide everything under $1,000,000 unless you ask for it.
  • Volume against the 30-day average. 1.0× is a normal day. A 15% gain at 0.6× happened on less trading than usual; the same gain at 4× had far more participants.
  • Venues, price gap and volume difference. Comparing Coinbase and Kraken side by side shows how price and volume differ between the two exchanges. The price gap shows differences in quotes at collection time, while volume disparities highlight where trading activity is concentrated.

None of this predicts direction. The top of a gainers list is where the most volatile assets on the board gather, and volatility cuts both ways. You can track all advances on the top crypto gainers ranking ($1M+ volume floor), compare them against the top crypto losers table of steepest declines, check volume distribution on the crypto market heatmap, and review data standards in our methodology guide or the About Gainers Today overview of sources and operation.

What sits behind a big gain

Coins reach the top of a gainers list for ordinary reasons: an announcement, a listing on another exchange, a rally that lifts the whole market, or a few large orders landing in a market with few sellers. The exchange data does not say which of these happened, and this site does not guess.

The two filters above the table exist to tell those cases apart using only what the exchanges publish:

  • Volume against the 30-day average. When a gain arrives with volume far above the coin’s usual day, many buyers and sellers agreed on the new price. When volume is ordinary, a handful of orders may have done the work.
  • Distance from the 24h high. A gainer still close to the top of its range is holding its move. One that has slipped well below it has already handed part of the gain back, which the percentage alone does not show.

Three risks come with the territory. Volatility: the same coin that rose fast can fall as fast. Liquidity: the price shown is the last trade, and selling a larger amount into a thin market pushes the price against you. Cost of trading: a wide gap between the best buy and sell orders, shown on the Kraken page, is paid every time you get in or out.

What this site does differently

Six things you can check on the page itself.

  • The volume floor is on by default

    A market needs at least $1,000,000 traded in 24 hours to be ranked. You can raise the floor to $10M or remove it; removing it marks every thin row.

  • Exchange data only

    Prices and volumes come from the public market-data APIs of Coinbase Exchange and Kraken. No scraped screens, no unlicensed stock feeds.

  • The collection time is on every table

    One snapshot is collected every 15 minutes and shown with its time in UTC. A snapshot older than 40 minutes is labelled as delayed.

  • Losers get the same table

    The decline ranking uses the same columns, floor and source as the advance ranking, one link away.

  • No invented reasons

    There is no "why it moved" column and no overbought or oversold label, because the sources carry neither.

  • Readable without colour

    Every change has an arrow and a plus or minus sign, so green and red are never the only signal.

What is covered, and what is not

The rankings are built from Coinbase and Kraken exchange data, with a $1M daily-volume floor on by default and the collection time printed on every table. They cover crypto assets quoted in US dollars on Coinbase Exchange, with Kraken added for volume, a second price and the bid-ask spread. Stablecoins are excluded. Stocks are not covered: publishing stock quotes requires a display licence, and no free source grants one.

The data is delayed by up to 15 minutes and is not suitable for placing orders. For that, use the exchange itself. The crypto market heatmap sized by dollar volume visualizes the 30 most-traded markets, the top crypto gainers in the last 24 hours and top crypto losers tables show the full sorted boards, the 7-day crypto movers view puts today’s moves in a longer frame, and operator questions or correction requests can be sent via our Contact Gainers Today page for data inquiries and corrections.

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Questions and answers

What makes a coin a top gainer?

Its last price is compared with the price 24 hours earlier, and the coins with the largest percentage increase rank highest. The ranking shows how far the price moved, not why, and not how much money moved it, which is why the volume figures sit beside every percentage.

How do the volume and 24h-high filters work?

The volume filter keeps gainers whose 24-hour volume is at least 2× or 5× their own 30-day daily average. The high filter measures how far the last price is below the 24-hour high: "Within 2% of high" keeps coins still near the top, "5%+ below high" keeps those that have given a lot back. Both run in your browser on the snapshot already loaded, and the rank number keeps showing each coin's place in the full list.

Why can a gainer be risky even with plenty of volume?

Volume makes a price harder to push around, but it does not stop a fast move from reversing. Large gains come from volatile assets, and volatility works in both directions. Exchange data also cannot show whether the buyers who lifted the price are still there.

Where does the data come from?

From the public market-data APIs of two exchanges: Coinbase Exchange and Kraken. A scheduled job collects both every 15 minutes and stores one snapshot. The pages show that snapshot, never a figure typed by hand.

Is this real-time?

No. The snapshot is collected every 15 minutes, so a figure can be up to that old, plus the few seconds the exchanges take to answer. The collection time, in UTC, is printed above every table, and a snapshot older than 40 minutes is labelled as delayed.

Why is a coin that gained 200% today missing from the list?

Most likely because it traded less than $1,000,000 in the last 24 hours, or because it is not listed in US dollars on Coinbase Exchange. Large percentage moves on very little volume are easy to produce and hard to sell into, so they are hidden unless you choose "All" in the volume filter, where they appear marked as thin.

Do you cover stocks?

No. Showing stock prices to the public requires a display licence from a data vendor and, for most feeds, from the exchanges. This site only publishes data it is allowed to show, which today means crypto from exchange APIs.

Why is there no market cap column?

Exchanges publish prices and volumes, not the circulating supply needed to compute market capitalisation. Rather than borrow that number from a source without a licence, the tables use 24-hour dollar volume as the measure of size.

Is a top gainer a good buy?

A ranking of past price changes says nothing about future ones. Assets that rise sharply often fall sharply afterwards. Nothing on this site is investment advice.