Lil’ Shrub (SHRUB) surged 833.5% in 24 hours, rising from the basement of the market, with a market cap of just $856,279, to claim the crown as the day’s biggest gainer. Exactly one day ago the token printed an all-time low of $0.000000712; today it trades at $0.00085619. That is the kind of move that looks like someone switched on a spotlight in a dark room and discovered the basement finally has a roof.
It is a performance hard to describe without film references. While the heavyweights doze, the micro-caps staged their own Rocky story: SHRUB turned worthlessness into the topic of the day, and its $8.12 million daily volume exceeded its entire market value nearly tenfold. That volume-to-capitalization ratio is the classic signature of speculative stampede, where a token’s fate hangs by a thread. Whoever buys last is left without a chair when the music stops.
Second place went to BREW, up 160.0% to $0.01449356. Its $13.29 million market cap and $13.99 million daily turnover point to lively trading, and the chart reveals a genuine rollercoaster: the all-time high of $0.03022852 was reached on September 11, while the all-time low of $0.00354326 was recorded just three days earlier, on September 8. In two weeks BREW has traveled through both the floor and the ceiling of its own history.
Third place belongs to BENQI (QI), which jumped 139.3% to $0.00361877. This DeFi veteran, with a $26.02 million market cap and volume of $92.08 million, proves that even older projects are not immune to a rush. For perspective: BENQI was worth $0.39417 back in 2021, so today’s price sits 99% below that peak. A comeback, even for a single day, sounds like a film sequel featuring a third-rate hero refusing to stay retired.
Behind the top three, PHALA (PHA) added 68.4% while posting the highest turnover among gainers, $226.9 million, against a market cap of $73.44 million. Beside it, Aerodrome Finance (AERO) climbed 22.6% to $0.851821, and with an $849.4 million market cap it remained the biggest catch in the hunt for upside. Mubarak (MUBARAK) added 25.6% and Backpack (BP) 28.6%. On a day when micro-caps led the dance, the market once again showed that momentum does not choose by size.
What links SHRUB, BREW and BENQI is not technology or partnership but pure speculation. The trio rose on a wave of short-term interest, and such spikes usually come with a venomous sting: quick up, quick down. For now, the trophy of the day rests with those who managed to jump in before the crowd.
Financial data (24h):
- Lil’ Shrub (SHRUB): price $0.00085619 | MCap $856,279 | 24h vol $8,124,614 | Supply 1,000,000,000 | ATH $0.148102 (2026-09-04) | ATL $0.0000007129 (2026-09-25)
- BREW: price $0.01449356 | MCap $13,288,805 | 24h vol $13,986,885 | Supply 920,529,224 (max 1,000,000,000) | ATH $0.03022852 (2026-09-11) | ATL $0.00354326 (2026-09-08)
- BENQI (QI): price $0.00361877 | MCap $26,017,305 | 24h vol $92,075,656 | Supply 7,200,000,000 | ATH $0.39417 (2021-08-23) | ATL $0.00100721 (2026-07-25)
- PHALA (PHA): price $0.085651 | MCap $73,438,351 | 24h vol $226,917,915 | Supply 856,995,734 (max 1,000,000,000) | ATH $1.39 (2021-05-14) | ATL $0.01921543 (2026-08-03)
- Aerodrome Finance (AERO): price $0.851821 | MCap $849,443,096 | 24h vol $141,604,993 | Supply 996,537,831 | ATH $2.32 (2024-12-07) | ATL $0.00001861 (2023-10-16)
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