Crypto narratives, ranked by how the whole sector moved.
Every sector's coins rolled into one number: the average 24-hour move across curated CoinMarketCap categories, sitting next to how many of its coins actually rose. One coin can run alone — a sector where two thirds of its coins are green is rotation. No account needed to read it.
- Sectors ranked
- 43
- Coin universe
- 787
- Window
- 24 hours
- Data age
- 28m ago
Leading narratives
Sectors with the strongest average 24-hour move across their member coins. The rows worth acting on are the ones where the up count and the median agree with the average — that is a sector being bought, not a single coin carrying a label.
| # | Narrative | Coins | Breadth | Median | Avg 24h | Top mover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Account Abstraction | 6 | 5 / 1 | +4.20% | +10.74% | BICO+46.39% |
| 02 | AI Agents | 28 | 23 / 5 | +4.15% | +6.15% | COOKIE+41.74% |
| 03 | DEX | 16 | 7 / 9 | -0.60% | +5.83% | HFT+91.57% |
| 04 | Interoperability | 32 | 27 / 5 | +1.51% | +5.70% | HFT+91.57% |
| 05 | Gaming | 58 | 41 / 17 | +1.51% | +5.45% | HFT+91.57% |
| 06 | Modular | 14 | 12 / 2 | +1.23% | +4.79% | CTSI+48.79% |
| 07 | NFTs & Collectibles | 51 | 39 / 12 | +1.46% | +3.36% | HFT+91.57% |
| 08 | AI & Big Data | 101 | 69 / 32 | +1.19% | +3.04% | SKYAI+47.76% |
Lagging narratives
The weakest end of the same list, weakest first. It is the half most boards drop, and it is half of what rotation means: money that arrived in the sectors above usually left these. A sector where almost nothing is green is also where mean-reversion hunters start reading.
| # | Narrative | Coins | Breadth | Median | Avg 24h | Top mover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Wallets | 10 | 8 / 2 | +0.94% | -0.18% | C98+9.04% |
| 02 | Stablecoins | 15 | 12 / 3 | +0.01% | -0.01% | USDS+0.06% |
| 03 | Launchpad | 5 | 3 / 2 | +0.24% | +0.04% | CGPT+2.32% |
| 04 | Storage | 10 | 5 / 5 | +0.31% | +0.21% | WAL+2.62% |
| 05 | Sports | 11 | 6 / 5 | +0.39% | +0.32% | OG+3.58% |
| 06 | Payments | 37 | 18 / 19 | -0.01% | +0.34% | RIF+9.34% |
| 07 | Layer 1 | 86 | 45 / 41 | +0.09% | +0.35% | PLUME+16.61% |
| 08 | Tokenized Assets | 187 | 91 / 95 | -0.08% | +0.57% | FLNC+25.43% |
How to read a narrative row
- 01
Average — the headline, and the number that lies most
Every member coin counts once, whatever its size, so the average describes the sector's typical coin rather than its biggest one. That also makes it fragile: in a six-coin sector, one coin up 47 percent can print a +5 percent average while four of the six are red.
- 02
Median — the check on the average
The middle coin's move. When the median sits close to the average, the sector moved together. When the average is far above it, one name is doing the work and the sector story is thinner than the ranking suggests.
- 03
Breadth — how many coins are actually up
The up-versus-down split is the most honest column here. Twenty green out of sixty-five is a sector where a few coins ran; fifty out of sixty-five is participation, and participation is what tends to persist into the next session.
- 04
Coins and top mover — the size and the source of the move
Coin count tells you whether you are reading a broad category or a handful of names. The top mover names the coin dragging the average up, which is exactly the ticker to open a chart on before deciding the sector is bid.
Sector rotation, in practice
Money moves in groups, and groups take turns.
The coin ran, the sector did not
A ticker on every gainers list, sitting inside a sector with two coins green out of eleven, is an isolated move — news, a listing, a squeeze. Fine to trade, but nothing about it says the rest of the group is next. Cross-check it on the movers board.
The sector ran, your coin has not yet
The more useful read. A sector with broad participation and a coin inside it still flat is the laggard trade — and the reason to open the sector on the app board, where every row expands to its member coins.
Confirm it with what is happening this minute
A 24-hour sector figure is a summary. Whether the move is still pushing right now is a different question, answered by the live pump and dump feed and its continuation-versus-exhaustion read.
Then check the market it is happening in
A green sector in a market where funding is stretched and liquidations are cascading is a different trade from the same sector in a quiet tape. The market overview puts movers, volume, funding and liquidations on one screen.
How these sectors are built
Grouped from CoinMarketCap tags
Each coin carries category tags. A sector here is one of those tags, filtered through a curated allowlist with clean labels. Broad ecosystem tags are left out on purpose: they describe which chain a token lives on, not what it does.
Three coins minimum
A tag needs at least three coins with a 24-hour value before it can rank. Anything thinner is one coin wearing a category name, and it would top or bottom the board on its own move.
Equal-weighted, on purpose
Members are not weighted by market cap, so a sector's number is not simply its largest coin restated. That is the useful version for rotation — and the reason the median and the up/down split are printed next to it rather than buried.
The tradable slice
The universe is coins with a Binance spot or futures market matched to their CoinMarketCap entry, so each sector is the part of the category you can actually trade. A coin with several tags appears in several sectors.
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Narratives — common questions
- What is a crypto narrative?
- A narrative is a group of coins the market trades as one story — memecoins, AI, real world assets, layer 2s, DePIN. Capital in crypto tends to arrive by group rather than one coin at a time, so knowing which group is bid is usually more useful than knowing which single ticker is green.
- Which crypto sector is pumping right now?
- The board above answers that live: sectors are ranked by the average 24-hour move of their member coins, strongest first. Read the breadth column beside it. A sector at the top of the list with only two of its six coins green is one coin's move wearing a category name, not a sector that is bid.
- What is sector rotation in crypto?
- Rotation is capital leaving one group of coins and showing up in another — out of layer 1s and into memecoins, out of AI and into real world assets. On this board it looks like one sector's average and breadth climbing while another's slide, and it is visible at the group level before any single chart makes it obvious. Checking the ranking on consecutive days is how traders follow it.
- Where do these crypto sectors come from?
- Each coin carries category tags from CoinMarketCap. A sector here is one of those tags, restricted to a curated allowlist with clean display labels, and it needs at least three coins with a 24-hour value before it can rank. Broad ecosystem tags are deliberately excluded — they say where a coin lives, not what it does. One coin can sit in several sectors, so a DEX token also counts inside DeFi.
- Why does breadth matter more than the sector average?
- The average is an equal-weighted mean of every member coin, so in a small sector one coin up 47 percent can lift the whole row while most of its members are red. The median and the up/down counts are the check: when the average sits far above the median, a single name is doing the work, and that is a very different trade from a sector where three quarters of the coins are green.
- Which coins are included in each sector?
- The universe is the several hundred coins that have a Binance spot or futures market and a matching CoinMarketCap entry. A sector here is therefore the tradable slice of the category, not every token that has ever claimed the label. Coins without a 24-hour figure are skipped, since a board ranked by 24-hour move cannot rank them.
- How often does the narratives board update?
- Market cap and category data move slowly, so the underlying snapshot refreshes on a slow cadence — roughly hourly — rather than tick by tick. The data-age reading in the header is the honest number. For minute-level moves, the pump and dump feed and the movers boards are the right surfaces.
- Can I get an alert when a narrative starts moving?
- There is no sector-level alert type. What works is arming alerts on the coins leading a sector you are watching: a percentage alert fires when a coin moves by the amount you pick inside a time window, and a market cap alert fires on a cap value or a top-N rank change. The free plan covers 5 active alerts and 10 notifications a day, delivered by email, Telegram, Discord or webhook.
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