Categories

The coins on today's board, grouped by CoinGecko's categories. A coin can sit in several. All coins.

• Layer 1 blockchains (41)
  Base blockchains that settle their own transactions, secured by their own validators or miners.
• Layer 2 networks (5)
  Networks that execute transactions off a base chain and settle back to it, usually Ethereum.
• DeFi (28)
  Lending, trading and yield protocols that run on smart contracts rather than through an intermediary.
• Decentralized exchanges (11)
  Exchanges where trades settle on chain from the user's own wallet.
• Lending and borrowing (3)
  Protocols that let users lend assets for yield or borrow against collateral.
• AI tokens (12)
  Projects building or coordinating AI compute, models, data or agents.
• Meme coins (8)
  Tokens whose value rests mainly on community and culture rather than a product.
• Real-world assets (7)
  Tokens that represent or give access to off-chain assets such as treasuries, credit or commodities.
• DePIN (5)
  Decentralized physical infrastructure: networks of real hardware such as storage, compute, wireless or sensors.
• Exchange tokens (10)
  Tokens issued by a crypto exchange company and used inside its business.
• Infrastructure (9)
  Services other projects build on: indexing, data, interoperability and developer tooling.