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Which part of the market is trending

The same trending data grouped by sector. Membership comes from CoinGecko's category lists; a category counts as trending when its members appear in the global or national trending feeds.

Layer 1 chains leads today with 28 of its 132 members trending, and a median 24-hour move of +2.1%. Across all 14 categories, 124 coins are trending in total. Categories with no trending member are still listed, because their absence is part of the picture: attention rotates between sectors, and the table below is the fastest way to see where it sits today.

CategoryCoinsTrendingMedian 24hSize
Layer 1 chains13228+2.1%$2.23T
DeFi16223+1.6%$72.77B
Meme coins11616+1.7%$30.58B
AI coins10815+2.6%$17.61B
Exchange tokens6410+1.4%$160.54B
DePIN498+2.2%$8.18B
Layer 2 networks415+1.5%$9.13B
Real-world assets914+0.4%$51.26B
NFT tokens474+1.8%$4.17B
Privacy coins83+6.4%$34.90B
Dog coins153+1.7%$16.91B
Gaming tokens493+1.3%$2.83B
PolitiFi42+0.4%$716.1M
Oracles130+2.6%$9.35B