Which crypto tokens have unusual trading activity?

Below are the tokens showing unusually strong activity right now — ranked by CoinGecko search interest (not by performance), with the notable 24h movers flagged. Only the biggest outliers are worth calling out as "unusual."

The stand-out movers

• Lil' Shrub (SHRUB) — up +72% in 24h, now a ~$20M market cap with ~$6M volume. A small-cap meme-style name making a sharp single-day run.
• Basecat (BASECAT) — up +64%, ~$53M cap, ~$30M volume. Another small-cap Base-chain meme-style token on a hot streak.
• Useless Coin (USELESS) — up +58% to a ~$205M cap with ~$162M volume — unusually heavy volume for its size class, worth a closer look.
• Pons (PONS) — up +32% to ~$477M cap, ~$153M volume.

Lil' ShrubSHRUB#810 BasecatBASECAT#427 Useless CoinUSELESS#174 PonsPONS#112

Also trending (higher-cap, less extreme)

• Zcash (ZEC) — +14% to ~$15.8B cap; ~$990M volume is hefty for it.
• Lighter (LIT) — +14%, ~$1.1B cap — a perp-DEX platform token drawing fresh attention.
• Uniswap (UNI) — +11%, ~$4B cap, over $1B volume.

ZcashZEC#11 LighterLIT#69

Quick read

The genuinely unusual action is concentrated in the small/micro caps — SHRUB, BASECAT, and USELESS are all posting 50%+ single-day moves, which is classic high-volatility, low-liquidity behavior. Those are momentum-driven and can reverse just as fast, so size and lockup/security matter if you dig in.

If you want, I can pull the full on-chain security detail (liquidity locks, holder concentration, tax) on any one of these — that's where the real risk picture shows up. Want me to dig into a specific one?