Trending and the leaderboard
How coins are ranked on Pulse and the Leaderboard — what each board measures, and why nothing here is chosen by a human.
Nothing on this site is featured, promoted, or picked by anybody. There is no editorial slot, no paid placement and no button we press to put a coin somewhere. Every ranking is computed from one thing: what the chain says happened.
That is worth saying first because it is the question behind the question. "How do I get trending?" has a boring answer here — by being traded.
The Leaderboard: four boards
The Leaderboard answers four different questions, because one ranking cannot.
All four show the same figures and differ only in which one they are ordered by. All of them are in dollars, so a coin quoted in ETH and a coin quoted in USDG are compared on the same scale rather than by whichever number happened to be bigger.
Top market cap
Every coin by market cap, largest first. No filter — everything that exists appears.
1h volume
What has actually traded in the last sixty minutes. A coin only appears if its 1-hour volume is above zero, so this board is short by design and turns over fast.
This is the sharpest reading of "what is happening right now". The 24-hour figure keeps a single large trade propping a coin up all day; this one does not.
New & moving
Two conditions, both required:
- Launched within the last 24 hours, and
- already past $5,000 of 24-hour volume.
So it is not a list of new launches — it is new launches that people are actually trading. A coin that launched an hour ago with no volume is not here, and neither is a busy coin from last week.
Movers
Ranked by the size of the 24-hour price move — the absolute value — so the biggest fall leads as readily as the biggest rise. This board is about magnitude, not direction.
Why a flat coin is not the same as a quiet one
A coin with no trade in the window has no 24-hour price to compare against, which is a different thing from one that moved nowhere. Those are excluded rather than ranked as 0%. Treating them as flat would fill the board with coins that did not move because nothing happened to them.
Pulse: three lanes
Pulse is a different shape — not a ranking of everything, but three columns showing where coins are in their life. Each lane holds up to 20.
| Lane | What is in it |
|---|---|
| New pairs | Most recently launched |
| Heating up | Most traded in the last 24 hours (anything with volume above zero) |
| Top by cap | Largest market cap |
Within any lane you can re-sort by Newest, Market cap, or Trending.
What "Trending" actually sorts by
24-hour volume, with 24-hour transaction count as the tie-break.
The tie-break is the interesting half. Between two coins that have moved the same money, the one that did it across more separate trades ranks higher — a hundred people trading looks different from one person moving the same amount, and this is where that difference shows up.
What a creator can and cannot influence
Can: launch something people want to trade. Every board responds to exactly that and to nothing else.
Cannot: be added by request, pay for a position, or be removed from a board for doing badly. Movers will list your coin for a large fall as readily as a large rise.
Should know: volume is the input to most of these, and volume can be manufactured. That is why a coin's page shows the transaction count beside its volume, and the holder count and creator's holding in Top holders. Trading with yourself moves the volume number and leaves the others behind, and the information to notice that is on the page. See the token page.
Stealth launches
A stealth launch is kept out of Explore, Pulse, search and the trade ticker until it is revealed. Its own page works the whole time, so it can be shared directly.
It is hidden from the site's listings, not from the chain — anyone watching contract events sees it the moment it is mined.