Meme Coins Lead Today's Crypto Movers · Sep 17, 2026

Which crypto tokens moved most over the last 24 hours as of September 17, 2026, and the themes that drove them.

1. Market at a glance

- Total market cap 24h — ▼ −1.3% - BTC dominance 58.2% — - Themes above size floor 129 of 763

2. Biggest movers, grouped by what drove them

🎭 Meme Coins *(grouped from the “Robinhood Chain Meme” category)* — Theme index +19.6% on $1.2B cap and $172M volume. - AMC +39.6% — A Meme Coin - AI +37.1% — Artificial Inu - CASHCAT +23.9% — Cash Cat - HOOD +1.6% — GreenHood 💾 Data Availability — Theme index +16.6% on $4.9B cap and $1.2B volume. - NEAR +19.2% — NEAR Protocol - UB +5.9% — Unibase - TIA +5.4% — Celestia - EIGEN +5.3% — EigenCloud (prev. EigenLayer) 🐱 Cat Coins *(grouped from the “Cat-Themed” category)* — Theme index +15.0% on $875M cap and $95M volume. - ZCAT +53.8% — Anonymous Cat - CASHCAT +23.9% — Cash Cat - POPCAT +3.3% — Popcat - MOG +3.3% — Mog Coin 🔄 DeFi Tokens *(grouped from the “Index Coop Defi Index” category)* — Theme index +14.8% on $7.4B cap and $1.9B volume. - UNI +18.8% — Uniswap - AAVE +9.3% — Aave - LDO +4.7% — Lido DAO - SNX +3.3% — Synthetix - COMP +3.0% — Compound - WETH +1.5% — WETH 🔗 Base Layer Tokens *(grouped from the “Base Native” category)* — Theme index +1.4% on $111.0B cap and $19.6B volume. - AERO +9.0% — Aerodrome Finance - ZEN +9.3% — Horizen - AAVE +9.4% — Aave - CAKE +10.3% — PancakeSwap - VVV +11.5% — Venice Token - DRV +24.1% — Derive 🏆 Tokenized Gold — Theme index +1.6% on $5.1B cap and $478M volume. - PAXG +1.5% — PAX Gold - XAUT0 +1.6% — Tether Gold Tokens - XAUT +1.6% — Tether Gold

3. What drove the upside

- Robinhood Chain Meme +19.6% — led by AMC +39.6% - Data Availability +16.6% — led by NEAR +19.2% - Cat-Themed +15.0% — led by ZCAT +53.8%

4. What weighed on it

- Base Native +1.4% — AERO +9.0% - Tokenized Gold +1.6% — PAXG +1.5%

5. How this was built

634 of 763 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.