Capricorn Jumps 29% as DeFi AI Leads Today's Crypto Movers · Aug 16, 2026

Which crypto tokens moved most over the last 24 hours as of August 16, 2026, and the themes that drove them.

1. Market at a glance

- Total market cap 24h — ▼ −0.0% - BTC dominance 56.1% — - Themes above size floor 109 of 751

2. Biggest movers, grouped by what drove them

🤖 DeFi AI *(grouped from the “DeFAI” category)* — Theme index +4.3% on $1.1B cap and $111M volume. - APR +29.1% — Capricorn - VELVET +20.3% — Velvet - DRV +15.8% — Derive 🌾 Yield Farming — Theme index +3.8% on $7.1B cap and $445M volume. - BTW +20.4% — Bitway - CVX +5.3% — Convex Finance - CRV +5.0% — Curve DAO - UP +2.6% — Unitas - UNI +2.3% — Uniswap - SYRUP +2.0% — Maple Finance 🤖 Robotics — Theme index +0.6% on $620M cap and $51M volume. - ROBO +5.5% — Fabric Protocol - VIRTUAL −1.2% — Virtuals Protocol 📍 Liquid Staking *(grouped from the “Liquid Staking Governance Tokens” category)* — Theme index +0.5% on $820M cap and $53M volume. - JTO +2.5% — Jito - LDO +1.6% — Lido DAO - ANKR +0.0% — Ankr Network 🧠 AI Applications — Theme index −0.9% on $2.3B cap and $198M volume. - AKE −14.0% — Akedo - DOS −10.8% — DAPPOS - Q +5.2% — Quack AI - VELVET +20.3% — Velvet ✈️ Telegram Apps — Theme index −0.9% on $523M cap and $72M volume. - BEAT −3.9% — Audiera - FLOKI −0.8% — FLOKI

3. What drove the upside

- DeFAI +4.3%, led by APR +29.1% - Yield Farming +3.8% — led by BTW +20.4% - Robotics +0.6%, led by ROBO +5.5%

4. What weighed on it

- AI Applications −0.9%, AKE −14.0% - Telegram Apps −0.9% — BEAT −3.9%

5. How this was built

642 of 751 categories were below the size floor ($300M cap, $50M volume) and were dropped. Without that filter, dead micro-cap baskets print percentage moves in the billions and top the list. Every number here comes from market data. The theme names and the one-line explanations are written from the day's headlines. Where a group moved with no headline behind it, we say so rather than inventing a reason. This is an observation of what moved, not advice and not a recommendation. This tells you where attention went today; it does not tell you what happens next.