Bitcoin & crypto top movers — 17 Aug 2026

By Safu Trading

The biggest 24-hour gainers and losers across the top 500 by market cap, screened for real liquidity, with a cited reason wherever one holds up.

Bitcoin moved +0.7% in the last 24 hours, and 96 of the 175 coins that clear our liquidity bar (55%) closed the day green — that's the backdrop for everything below. The widest moves across the top 500 by market cap were led by GoPlus Security at +37.9%. For each mover we say what the project actually is and, where a same-day headline genuinely explains the direction, why it moved. A single day is noise until it holds — where there's no clear catalyst we say so, and the move is better read as volatility than as the start of a trend.

Biggest 24h gainers

• GoPlus Security (GPS) +37.90%
  Cybersecurity · Binance HODLer Airdrops — GoPlus is revolutionizing Web3 user security through its permissionless and user-driven User Security Network, which provides comprehensive protection across the entire user transaction lifecycle.
  No clear catalyst.
• Bitway (BTW) +25.90%No clear catalyst.
• SkyAI (SKYAI) +17.00%No clear catalyst.
• Talus (US) +12.40%No clear catalyst.
• Nexpace (NXPC) +11.40%No clear catalyst.
• Capricorn (APR) +10.40%No clear catalyst.

Biggest 24h losers

• Humanity (H) -24.10%No clear catalyst.
• Derive (DRV) -20.10%No clear catalyst.
• XPIN Network (XPIN) -19.70%No clear catalyst.
• Audiera (BEAT) -14.50%No clear catalyst.
• CoW Protocol (COW) -14.10%No clear catalyst.
• Cash Cat (CASHCAT) -11.90%No clear catalyst.

How this list is built

Moves are 24-hour changes among the top 500 by market cap. We exclude stablecoins and wrapped or staked receipt tokens — their price tracks something else by design, so a big independent move is a pricing artifact, not a market view. We also drop anything under $50M market cap or $3M daily volume, anything turning over less than 2% of its market cap in a day, and any print beyond ±300% — at that size it is almost always a redenomination or a broken feed rather than a trade. 175 of the 500 coins we track cleared that bar today.

Reasons are quoted verbatim from same-day reporting, and only appear when the headline is about that coin, points the same way as the move, covers the same timeframe and names an actual cause: 0 of these 12 movers met that bar. For the rest we print "no clear catalyst" rather than attach an unrelated headline. Not financial advice.