How to read the nation
Crypto Nation shows the top 1,000 coins by market cap as the map of one nation. Know the few points below and you can read, without a single table, what is big, what is busy and where it is raining today.
At a glance
One coin is one building; one chain (mainnet) is one city. Because more coins were issued on Ethereum than anywhere else, Ethereum City is the capital, and the L2s (layer-2 networks) that record their transactions on Ethereum are the capital-region cities around it.
The city-hall tower in the middle of a city is that chain’s own coin (BTC, SOL, BNB…); the buildings around it are tokens issued on that chain.
Four kinds of city
Capital — Ethereum City. Every token issued on Ethereum stands here.
Capital region — Ethereum L2s. An L2 with four or more coins of its own becomes its own city; the others share the L2 Suburbs.
Mainnet cities — mainnets with four or more coins, or whose own coin is in the top 30 by market cap (Bitcoin, Solana, XRP…).
Provinces — the Mainnet Province, where small mainnets each form a neighbourhood, and provinces grouped by sector such as payments, AI or scaling.
Which city a coin stands in
For every coin, CoinGecko lists the chains it lives on. The first chain in that list counts as the coin’s home. That is why USDT and USDC, which live on many chains, stand in the capital: Ethereum is first on their lists.
A chain’s own coin (Solana’s SOL, for example) becomes the city-hall tower of that chain’s city. The registry is rebuilt every week, re-checking each coin’s rank and home.
Reading a building
Height — market cap, on a log scale: ten times the market cap is about 22 m taller (6–170 m). The tallest building is BTC.
Lot size — market-cap tier. Big coins take a whole block; small coins share a block four or nine to a block.
Window lights — a day’s trading volume divided by market cap (turnover). The more a coin changes hands that day, the more windows are lit.
Window colour — the 24-hour move: gold when it rose a lot, blue when it fell a lot.
Shape — an architectural style. Each coin gets one of more than twenty styles that suit its sector, such as a stepped spire, a twisting glass tower, twin towers, a round tower, an observation tower or a domed hall. None is modelled on a real building, and whatever the shape, the height is still the market cap.
LED signs on the walls — the coin’s symbol and its 24-hour move (green up, red down on the English page). From far away the signs turn into glowing panels.
Weather
The sky on the weather button (top left) is the whole market’s 24-hour move, weighted by market cap. Each city’s weather is the 24-hour move of that city’s coins, weighted the same way.
+7% or more: rainbow · +1.5% or more: sun · within ±1.5%: clouds · down to −7%: rain · below that: storm with lightning. Dark clouds gather and the ground darkens over a rainy city; a rainbow rises over a city that surged. The drifting clouds over the nation grow thicker the cloudier the whole sky is.
Land, roads and places
Mountains, rivers, lakes and forests, bridges and tunnels, the airports, amusement parks, stadiums, universities, golf courses, harbours, lighthouses, wind and solar farms, campsites, parks, villages and farms are scenery that makes the nation feel like a nation; they have nothing to do with any coin.
City positions are also chosen by pushing cities apart so they do not overlap, so being close does not mean being related (only the capital region is deliberately placed near the capital). The cars on the roads, the planes taking off and the boats in the harbours show a nation that is alive.
Where prices come from
The browser of each visitor fetches CoinGecko’s public prices directly every five minutes and updates the buildings and weather. If that fails, it uses the prices saved with the registry (“saved prices”). The chip at the top left says which one you are seeing.
The market caps and coin lists in this library’s city guide are the values from when the registry was built.
Controls
Drag to turn; use the wheel or two fingers to zoom. Tap a building or a city sign for details. City names stand in front of each city like road signs: blue for the capital, navy for the capital region, green for mainnet cities and brown for provinces.
Press ☆ Favorite in a coin’s card and a gold light pillar rises over that building (a building picked by search gets a light-blue one); the ⭐ button lists your favorites. Favorites are saved only in this browser.
Find a coin with the / key (or the search box); use the 🗺 city list, 🌤 nation weather, 📚 library and 🏷 labels (signs on and off) buttons. Add #c-bitcoin (a coin) or #city-solana (a city) to the address to start there.
Good to know
Crypto Nation is an unofficial fan project made by an individual. It does not recommend or rate any coin, and looking big on the map does not mean a coin is good. It is not investment advice, and prices may be delayed or wrong.