How to Read a Crypto Price Table: 1h, 24h and 7d Changes Explained

Our homepage table packs a lot into a single row. This guide goes through it column by column, explains where each number comes from and points out a few details that are easy to misread.

Rank and name

The “#” column is the coin’s rank by market capitalization. Next to it are the coin’s logo, name and ticker symbol. Tickers are not unique across the crypto world — unrelated projects sometimes use the same symbol — so the name and logo are the safer identifiers. Click a name to open the coin’s detail page.

Price

The price is the latest aggregated price from CoinGecko, which combines trades from many exchanges into a single figure. It is shown in your chosen display currency; you can switch between US dollars, euros, pounds, yen, yuan and Brazilian reals from the header.

Crypto prices span an enormous range, so we vary the number of decimal places: two for prices of 1 or more, and progressively more for smaller prices so that tiny values stay readable. The page refreshes its data every 30 seconds. When a price changes, its cell briefly flashes green for an increase or red for a decrease, so you can see what just moved.

1h, 24h and 7d change

The three percentage columns show how much the price has moved over the last hour, 24 hours and 7 days. Each is a rolling window measured back from the moment the data was produced, not from a fixed daily open — crypto markets trade around the clock, every day of the week.

Percentages make coins with very different prices comparable. A $1 move is enormous for a coin priced at $2 and invisible for one priced at $60,000. They also compound in a way that is easy to forget: a coin that rises 10% and then falls 10% ends 1% below where it started.

The columns are most useful together. A large 24-hour gain alongside a negative 7-day change may simply be a bounce within a falling week. Green across all three suggests a move that has persisted.

24h volume and market cap

Volume is the value of the coin traded over the past 24 hours; market cap is price multiplied by circulating supply. Both are shown in compact form, so $1.2B means 1.2 billion. Our guides to trading volume and supply explain both in depth.

The 7-day chart

The small chart at the end of each row, called a sparkline, plots the price over the past seven days. It is drawn green when the 7-day change is positive and red when it is negative. Each sparkline is scaled to its own high and low, so a gentle wobble in a stable coin and a violent swing in a volatile one can look similar. Read the shape from the chart and the size of the move from the 7d column.

Sorting, searching and your watchlist

• Click any column heading to sort by it; click again to reverse the order.
• Use the search box above the table to filter by name or ticker.
• Press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K) anywhere on the site to jump straight to a coin.
• Tap the star on any row to add a coin to your watchlist, which is saved in your browser only.

When data is delayed

If our data source is briefly unavailable, the status indicator above the table says so, and the table keeps showing the last prices it received rather than going blank. Treat prices shown during those moments as stale.

No public data feed is perfectly real-time, and the price on any individual exchange can differ from an aggregated price. Our guide to price differences between exchanges explains why.