Lil' Shrub Jumps 375% as Meme Coins Lead Today's Crypto Movers · Sep 3, 2026

Which crypto tokens moved most over the last 24 hours as of September 3, 2026, and the themes that drove them.

1. Market at a glance

- Total market cap 24h — ▲ +2.3% - BTC dominance 59.4% — - Themes above size floor 131 of 757

2. Biggest movers, grouped by what drove them

🐸 Meme Coins *(grouped from the “Robinhood Chain Meme” category)* — Theme index +80.0% on $1.1B cap and $201M volume. - SHRUB +374.8% — Lil' Shrub - BONER +29.4% — Boner Coin - MICRODUCK +21.7% — microduck - CHUMP +21.1% — Chump Coin - CASHCAT +15.4% — Cash Cat - PIPEDOG +13.1% — pipedog 🤖 DeFi AI *(grouped from the “DeFAI” category)* — Theme index +20.2% on $945M cap and $67M volume. - APR +35.4% — Capricorn - DRV +13.5% — Derive - VELVET −5.0% — Velvet 🔐 Privacy Coins *(grouped from the “Quantum-Resistant” category)* — Theme index +17.7% on $17.6B cap and $966M volume. - ZEC +18.2% — Zcash - ALGO +2.0% — Algorand - STRK +1.6% — Starknet 💧 Liquid Staking — Theme index +7.9% on $1.4B cap and $429M volume. - APR +35.7% — Capricorn - LISTA +18.1% — Lista DAO - SSV +11.7% — SSV Network - JTO +7.3% — Jito - ANKR +6.9% — Ankr Network - LDO +6.7% — Lido DAO ⚙️ AI Infrastructure *(grouped from the “AI Framework” category)* — Theme index +3.0% on $1.8B cap and $253M volume. - EIGEN +3.8% — EigenCloud (prev. EigenLayer) - ALLO +4.2% — Allora - VIRTUAL +4.6% — Virtuals Protocol - UB +6.6% — Unibase - ARC +9.0% — AI Rig Complex - COAI +12.8% — ChainOpera AI 🎮 Gaming Tokens *(grouped from the “Gaming Blockchains” category)* — Theme index +3.0% on $848M cap and $144M volume. - BEAM −0.7% — Beam - IMX +3.6% — Immutable - APE +5.9% — ApeCoin

3. What drove the upside

- Robinhood Chain Meme +80.0% — led by SHRUB +374.8% - DeFAI +20.2% — led by APR +35.4% - Quantum-Resistant +17.7% — led by ZEC +18.2%

4. What weighed on it

- AI Framework +3.0% — EIGEN +3.8% - Gaming Blockchains +3.0% — BEAM −0.7%

5. How this was built

626 of 757 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.