Crypto Price Tracker

It is the price of one coin multiplied by the number of coins believed to be in circulation, which makes it a measure of size rather than of money invested. The figure would evaporate long before the whole supply reached a real order book. Circulating supply is an estimate too, and sources differ on whether locked, staked or burned tokens count, so the same coin can carry different capitalisations in different places. Fully diluted valuation — every token that will ever exist, priced at today's rate — is often the more sobering number.

There is no single crypto price. Every venue runs its own order book, so a coin has a slightly different last-traded price on each of them at any instant, and an aggregated figure is an average across many venues weighted by how much they trade. On top of that gap sit the costs that reach you directly: the spread between the buy and sell side, the exchange's fee, the network fee to move anything off it, and in some countries a persistent local premium. An aggregate is a reference rate, not a quote.

A rolling window, not a calendar day. The comparison is against the price at this same clock time yesterday, and the window moves forward continuously, which is why the percentage can shift even when little has traded — the anchor at the far end has moved on. That matters most when a spike or a crash rolls out of the window: a coin can go from a large gain to a small one without doing anything in the present. Sites that quote a change against a fixed midnight show a different figure at the same moment.

The figures come from CoinGecko, reached through a route on this site rather than from your browser. That request has no field for anything personal because it has no fields at all — there is nothing to type on the page and nothing to submit. The one thing your browser does fetch directly is each coin's logo, a plain image request to an address the data provider supplied. No wallet, no holdings, no portfolio and no account come into it, because the tool has no concept of any of them.

No. It is a snapshot taken when the request is made, and it stays frozen until you ask for another. Trading venues work differently: they hold an open connection and receive each change as it happens, which is what you need if seconds matter. Repeated polling of a public data source is answered from a short cache instead, so asking again straight away often returns what you already had. For reading the state of the market that is fine; for anything where the price you see has to be the price you get, it is not.

Because a top list is a cut, and everything below the line is not in the response at all. There are thousands of tradeable tokens, and only the largest handful come anywhere near the first page of a ranking, so a newly launched, small or narrowly traded coin will not appear. Ranking also shifts, so a coin sitting near the bottom edge can be there one week and gone the next without anything dramatic happening. To look one up you need a source with search across the full list, or the exchange that lists it.

Capitalisation describes size; volume describes activity. A coin can carry a large capitalisation while very little of it changes hands in a day, which is what makes a position hard to leave without moving the price against yourself. The reverse happens too — a small token with heavy volume around a piece of news. The two are worth reading together: size alone says nothing about whether anyone is on the other side of a trade. Volume is not in this table, so the ranking tells you which projects are large, not which are liquid.

Because its price is still set by trading rather than by decree. A stablecoin holds near its peg through arbitrage: when it drifts below, someone buys it cheaply and redeems it for a dollar with the issuer, and that buying pushes it back up. Deviations of a fraction of a percent are ordinary and mean little more than a momentary imbalance in an order book. A sustained gap, or one that widens, is worth attention, because it tends to say something about confidence in the redemption path rather than about the market.