If you've glanced at your portfolio at all this month, you already know: it's been a good one. Bitcoin is up over 27%. Ethereum is up more than 35%. And it's not just the big names — 86 out of every 100 major coins we track are in the green over the past 30 days.
But “everything went up” isn't the interesting part. The interesting part is what went up the most — and it's probably not what you'd expect.
We pulled apart the top 100 crypto assets and found a few things worth knowing before you make your next move.
1. The old-school “privacy coins” are quietly having their best run in years. Zcash (ZEC), Dash (DASH) and Monero (XMR) — three coins built around keeping transactions private, which have mostly been left for dead the last few years — are up 106%, 66%, and 53% this month. That's not a coincidence; they moved together, on the same days, which usually means a specific trend is pulling money in, not just random hype.
2. DeFi is back. The tokens behind decentralized lending and trading platforms — Curve (CRV), Uniswap (UNI), Aave (AAVE) — are having a real comeback, up 44-80% this month. If you wrote DeFi off in the last bear market, it might be time for a second look. See DeFi coins.
3. The exchanges that let you trade with leverage on-chain are on fire. Tokens like Lighter (LIT), Arbitrum (ARB), and Hyperliquid (HYPE) — all tied to on-chain trading platforms — are among the biggest winners of the month. This is one of the clearer “hot narrative” plays out there right now.
4. Not everything is winning. Metaverse tokens and AI-related tokens are the laggards this month — both barely positive while everything else runs. If you're holding bags in either category, you're not imagining the underperformance.
5. “Small caps are outperforming” is mostly a myth right now. It's tempting to think smaller, riskier coins are where the real money's being made. But once you strip out a couple of freak outliers, the typical small-cap coin did about as well as a typical large-cap coin this month. The difference is a handful of extreme winners dragging the average up — not a broad small-cap rally.
6. Meme coins look like the hottest category on paper — that's mostly an illusion. The meme coin average is being inflated by two obscure micro-cap tokens that moved several hundred percent. Take those out, and meme coins are still doing fine, just nowhere near as wild as the headline number suggests.
That's the short version. The free full report breaks down all 100 assets — every top performer and every laggard, ranked by category (DeFi, gaming, memes, AI, and more), and by market-cap tier — so you can see exactly where the money's moving and where it's quietly leaving.
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