Our 24 crypto assets cover 83.3% of the market tonight

Our crypto section lists 24 assets, and tonight those 24 carry 83.3% of the value of the entire crypto market, by CoinGecko's global figures. Every one of them has a written guide behind it rather than a price card.

“Market cap is price multiplied by circulating supply. It ranks assets by size but says nothing about whether a price is fair: a high market cap only means a lot of money is already in.”

— intokened.com, Assets section FAQ

From the FAQ on our assets page

What the 83.3% covers

The three numbers behind that share:

• The 24 coins on the page are worth $2.255 trillion against a total crypto market of $2.709 trillion.
• Tether and USDC add another $257 billion, or 9.5%, and we leave both out on purpose.
• Staked ether and wrapped bitcoin account for a further 1.3%, and they are claims on coins already counted.

The gap between 83.3% and 100% is mostly dollars. Stablecoins track the dollar and a list built to compare crypto assets against each other learns nothing from putting three of them at the top. Wrapped and staked versions would double-count bitcoin and ether, which already sit in the table on their own.

How the table is built

The 24 split into eight sectors, and the split follows what an asset is to a reader rather than how its network is built. Layer 1 is the crowd with nine entries. BNB sits under DeFi and exchanges because that is what people hold it for, even though BNB Chain is an L1. Tron sits under Layer 1 because it runs smart contracts, even though it mostly carries dollar-pegged coins.

The table sorts by market value, price or 24-hour move, filters by sector, searches by name or ticker, and switches between a dense table and cards. Each row carries a seven-day sparkline. Price, market value and that sparkline come from CoinGecko and refresh every 15 minutes. That is fast enough to read an article against and too slow to trade on.

What sits behind each name

Each of the 24 guides is written by hand in both languages, and the depth follows the asset's history rather than a template. The bitcoin guide runs a dated timeline from the 2008 white paper through the pizza for 10,000 BTC, the Mt. Gox collapse, the 2022 FTX low and the spot ETFs. The oldest asset on the list launched in 2009 and the newest in 2023.

Terms inside those guides link into the glossary, so a reader who stops at a word can settle it without leaving the page and come back to the sentence.

The section ranks by size, explains what each network was built for, and prints the same numbers an exchange prints. Buying decisions stay with the reader. The 83.3% sits there to show how small the rest of the market looks next to the two dozen names that fill the headlines.

Nothing here should be taken as financial advice; treat it as information to consider.