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Total Crypto Market Cap

$ 2.65 T
+$0.04T vs. yesterday (+1.5%)
Updated May 14, 2026 · 4:00 PM ET Source: CoinGecko
Past 12 months$1.95T – $2.85T
vs Last Year+$0.45T
YoY Return+20.5%
2021 ATH$3.81T

Total crypto cap at $2.65T — up 20.5% YoY but still 30% below the December 2024 high. The asset class is now larger than the global silver market and roughly half the size of gold.

Historical trend

Daily total cap in trillions USD.

Source: CoinGecko · Global Charts

The long view: since 2017

From $18B to $3.8T peak — the largest growth-rate of any asset class in modern history.

ATH $3.81T · Nov 2021 Cycle low $81B · Dec 2018 Today $2.65T

How today stacks up

vs Yesterday
+$0.04T
+1.5% — typical day in a rally regime.
vs Last Year
+$0.45T
+20.5% YoY — strong but lagging Bitcoin.
5-Year Average
$2.05T
Today is $0.60T above the 5-yr mean.
From ATH
−30.4%
Off the Nov 2021 peak by roughly a third.
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About Total Crypto Market Cap

The Total Crypto Market Capitalization sums the market value of every tracked cryptocurrency — Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and thousands of altcoins. CoinGecko tracks around 13,000 coins; the top 100 represent ~95% of total cap. Today's $2.65T means the entire digital-asset market is worth $2.65 trillion (smaller than Apple's market cap alone, larger than every individual S&P 500 company except a handful).

Why the number matters

Total market cap is the simplest read on capital flowing into and out of crypto as an asset class. It correlates with broader risk sentiment, U.S. dollar liquidity (Fed policy + Treasury cash balance), and ETF flows. Above $3T historically marks bull-cycle peaks; under $1T marks bear-cycle troughs. The market has spent most of its post-2021 history bouncing between $1T and $3T.

Reading today's number

The all-time high — $3.81T in November 2021 — was the peak of the broad crypto bull cycle. The 2022 bear washed total cap to $810B, a 79% drawdown. The 2024 spot-ETF approval cycle drove a recovery to $3.71T by December 2024, then the 2025 tariff shock cut it to $1.62T. Today's $2.65T sits roughly in the middle of the post-2024 range — neither euphoric nor capitulating.

SourceCoinGecko · Global market data
Update cadenceReal-time
Last reviewed2026-05-14 by Dennis Traina

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Frequently asked

What this number means, and what it doesn't.

For each coin: current price × circulating supply. CoinGecko sums across all tracked coins. "Circulating supply" excludes locked tokens, staked tokens that can't be sold, and developer reserves — so the number represents what could theoretically be sold today at current prices.

Yes, by default. Most stablecoins (USDT, USDC, DAI) maintain a $1 peg, so their market cap is essentially their circulating supply. They add ~$170B to the total. Some analysts strip them out to focus on "speculative" crypto market cap.

Context: U.S. equity market is ~$55T. Global stocks are ~$120T. Gold is ~$22T. Crypto is smaller than gold and a small fraction of equities, but larger than the entire silver market (~$1.7T) and most national stock exchanges outside the U.S./Japan/UK.

February 2021. The market took 12 years to reach $1T, then doubled to $2T within 3 months, and peaked at $3.81T 9 months later. The acceleration was driven by Bitcoin's rally + the explosion of DeFi, NFTs, and Layer-1 alternatives.

Methodology

Source

Pulled from CoinGecko and cached on the EvvyTools server.

Update schedule

Refreshed automatically by our cron whenever the upstream source publishes a new value. Historical values are not revised after publication.

How we compute

Display value is the raw published number, unrounded. Comparison stats use the closest available reference date. We never edit the underlying data.