Derive Jumps 28% as DeFi AI Leads Today's Crypto Movers · Aug 24, 2026

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

1. Market at a glance

2. Biggest movers, grouped by what drove them

🏢 Real World Assets *(grouped from the “Real World Assets (RWA)” category)* — Theme index +49.1% on $71.0B cap and $2.8B volume. - INJ +7.2% — Injective - SYRUP +1.7% — Maple Finance - PAXG +0.8% — PAX Gold - XAUT +0.8% — Tether Gold - LINK +0.6% — Chainlink - ONDO +0.6% — Ondo 🔗 Wrapped Tokens *(grouped from the “Bridged-Tokens” category)* — Theme index +27.0% on $546M cap and $3.0B volume. The index moved far more than any coin in it — a small-cap effect, not a broad move. - WBTC +1.9% — Arbitrum Bridged WBTC (Arbitrum One) - BTC.B +1.8% — Lombard BTC.b - WETH +1.2% — L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Base) - WETH +1.2% — Arbitrum Bridged WETH (Arbitrum One) - WETH +1.2% — L2 Standard Bridged WETH (Optimism) - WETH +1.2% — Polygon PoS Bridged WETH (Polygon POS) 🚀 New Token Listings *(grouped from the “CoinList Launchpad” category)* — Theme index +0.9% on $65.7B cap and $6.6B volume. - ZAMA +4.9% — Zama - SOL +1.2% — Solana - ONDO +0.4% — Ondo - MINA −0.5% — Mina Protocol - IMX −0.8% — Immutable - NEAR −1.0% — NEAR Protocol 💰 Staking Coins *(grouped from the “Proof of Stake (PoS)” category)* — Theme index +0.7% on $528.8B cap and $32.5B volume. - INJ +7.0% — Injective - GRT +1.5% — The Graph - ETH +1.2% — Ethereum - SOL +1.2% — Solana - RUNE +0.9% — THORChain - ONT +0.6% — Ontology 🤖 DeFi AI *(grouped from the “DeFAI” category)* — Theme index −18.4% on $882M cap and $131M volume. - VELVET −74.7% — Velvet - DRV +27.8% — Derive ⭐ IDO Tokens *(grouped from the “Binance Wallet IDO” category)* — Theme index −14.5% on $1.6B cap and $284M volume. - VELVET −74.7% — Velvet - SENT −7.7% — Sentient - NIGHT −5.6% — Midnight - MMT −1.1% — Momentum - UP −0.2% — Unitas - ZAMA +4.9% — Zama

3. What drove the upside

- Real World Assets (RWA) +49.1% — led by INJ +7.2% - Bridged-Tokens +27.0% — led by WBTC +1.9% - CoinList Launchpad +0.9% — led by ZAMA +4.9%

4. What weighed on it

- DeFAI −18.4% — VELVET −74.7% - Binance Wallet IDO −14.5% — VELVET −74.7%

5. How this was built

620 of 754 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.