Where the market stood on 13 September 2026
A snapshot of the digital-asset market as of 13 September 2026, covering capitalisation, dominance, fee streams, and seven-day return dispersion.
Market Capitalisation and Dominance
As of 13 September 2026, total market capitalisation stood at $2.63 trillion (point-in-time), with a 24-hour change of -3.97% recorded on that date. Two assets alone account for a substantial majority of that figure: Bitcoin's dominance was 58.85% and Ether's was 11.59% (both point-in-time), meaning the remaining several hundred tracked assets shared approximately 29.6% of total capitalisation between them. Stablecoins outstanding reached $313.9 billion (point-in-time), representing roughly 11.9% of total market capitalisation, while value locked across chains was recorded at $88.4 billion (point-in-time).
Breadth of Seven-Day Movement
Among assets with market capitalisations above $1 billion, the trailing seven-day return distribution was notably wide. The strongest performer in that cohort, Bitway, returned +47.8% over the trailing 7 days, followed by Venice Token at +25.6%. At the other end, Ethena fell -19.6% and Morpho -14.6% over the same period. The gap between the single best and single worst performer in this large-cap subset exceeded 67 percentage points, indicating that the week's movement was far from uniform even within the higher-capitalisation tier. The presence of both double-digit gains and double-digit losses among assets above the $1 billion threshold suggests dispersion rather than a single directional sweep.
Fee-Generating Assets Versus Capitalisation Ranking
The largest annualised fee streams, calculated from the trailing 30 days to 13 September 2026, were led by Uniswap at $2.10 billion, Pons at $1.38 billion, and Canton at $609 million. Lido DAO, Aave, TRON, Solana, and Meteora followed, ranging from approximately $278 million to $558 million annualised. Notably, Canton appears in both the top fee-stream list and the weakest seven-day performers (trailing 7 days: -13.2%), illustrating that fee generation and short-term price movement do not necessarily move in the same direction. The fee figures are annualised projections from a 30-day trailing window and do not represent guaranteed forward revenue; they describe the run-rate implied by recent on-chain activity only.
What These Figures Cannot Capture
Market-wide aggregates of this kind compress a great deal of heterogeneity. They do not distinguish between fee revenue that accrues to token holders and fee revenue that does not; they do not reflect the concentration of volume within each protocol, the counterparty or smart-contract risk embedded in locked value, or the proportion of stablecoin supply that is actively circulating versus dormant. Dominance percentages treat all constituent assets as fungible units of account, which obscures structural differences in liquidity, custody arrangements, and the degree to which individual assets are independently priced.
A reader seeking to interpret any of these figures further would need to examine individual asset tokenomics, on-chain volume breakdowns, and the methodologies each data provider uses to calculate market capitalisation and total value locked.