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How I Use CoinMarketCap to Find Crypto Narratives BEFORE They Blow Up

15 Jul 2025 · 2 min

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In this tutorial, the presenter explains how to customize CoinMarketCap’s interface—specifically the Columns and Filters tabs—to surface the 90‑day percentage change for each cryptocurrency, rather than price or market‑cap. By focusing on the top‑performing coins over a 90‑day window, he identifies emerging demand‑driven “narratives.” He argues that low‑liquidity coins with a strong narrative can experience rapid price spikes as buying pressure concentrates. Using Maple Finance as a concrete example, he shows a 318% gain in the last 90 days, indicating a hot narrative. Extending the analysis to the top 20 gainers, he finds that 17 are AI‑related, leading him to shift his research and buying focus toward the AI narrative. The video serves as a practical guide for crypto investors to spot nascent trends before they become mainstream.

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CoinMarketCap, they have these 2 kind of like tabs here. Uh, one of them is columns and one of them is filters. So if you click columns, you might notice that mine looks completely different from yours if you actually have it up on your computer. So personally, I do not care about price that much. I don't care about market cap. I switch the website around to give me what I want, which is percentage increase. The strategic advantage is I can actually look at the 90-day best producing coins. So in the last 90 days, Maple Finance produced 318%. And what this tells me is that this category, we call it narratives. Okay. So specifics, I'm not going to go into that. Narratives drive demand. Demand is basically the amount of people buying the coin. So if you have a coin with low liquidity, but it has a really, really strong narrative, then we have a lot of people buying into a coin that has low liquidity, the price skyrockets. So a really good way to understand demand of the entire market, like what right now is really popping off, is finding coins that have gone up in price. So for example, Maple Finance, as you can see right right here, Maple Finance, has been up 318% in the last 90 days. So I know that something is cooking right in that area. But what we usually do is we actually look into all these coins, and it really tells us on the 90-day perspective what coins are doing really, really well. And it kind of gives us a grasp. Okay, out of the 20 coins that have done well in the last 90 days, 17 of them are AI coins. So something in AI is working. So then we adjust our focus of the coins that we are buying and researching to the AI narrative. Great.