About

Crypto Wheel exists because "which one should I pick" is a question people ask far more often than they mean it. Every site that answers it tries to sell something. This one spins a wheel, tells you it spun a wheel, and stops there.

What this site does not have

No prices, no charts, no market data of any kind, and no request to any server once the page has loaded. There is no account, no newsletter and no "sign up to see your result". The 24 wheels here are fixed lists built into the page, and the pick is made by your own browser.

That is a deliberate limit rather than a stage the site has not reached yet. The moment a page shows a price next to a coin it has picked at random, it starts to look like it is recommending something — and it is not, it cannot, and it should not appear to.

What is excluded from every wheel, and why

The ranked wheels claim to hold the largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalisation. Four kinds of token are removed before that list is drawn, which means the ranking here does not match a raw exchange listing. The removals are the interesting part, so they are stated rather than left for you to notice:

Stablecoins (USDT, USDC, USDe, DAI) — They track a currency rather than moving on their own, so a wheel that lands on one has not picked anything.
Wrapped assets (WBTC, WETH, cbBTC) — A wrapped token is a claim on the coin already on the wheel. Listing both would give that coin two segments.
Liquid staking tokens (stETH, wstETH, WBETH) — Same asset again, with a staking wrapper. It is not a separate thing to pick.
Exchange-issued duplicates (bridged and mirrored listings) — The same underlying coin counted twice on a different chain.

How current the lists are

Every ranked wheel prints the date its ranking was true, directly under the coin list. The current one is 21 August 2026. The ranking is re-fetched on a daily schedule and the site is rebuilt from it, so a page is only ever as old as its printed date.

That is still not a live feed, and the difference is the point: the list is fixed at build time, so the page you are reading is identical to the one everybody else is reading, and it can tell you honestly when it was true. A feed queried on load would make every page different on every visit and put whatever is moving today at the front of a page trying hard not to recommend anything.

If the ranking has drifted far enough to be wrong, that is a real bug and worth telling me about.

Is the wheel actually random?

Yes, and it is worth being precise about what that means. The winning segment is chosen before the wheel starts turning, using crypto.getRandomValues — the cryptographic random number generator built into your browser — rather than the general-purpose one most sites reach for. The rotation is then calculated to land on that segment. The animation is decoration; it cannot change the answer, and nothing reads the wheel afterwards to find out what it says.

Every entry gets one segment and one segment only, which is the other half of "equal chance". It is also why wrapped tokens are excluded: leaving Bitcoin on a wheel twice, once as BTC and once as WBTC, would double its odds without either segment looking wrong.

Who made it

Wickeey, a web developer. The code is plain HTML, CSS and a few kilobytes of JavaScript, hosted as static files. Corrections are welcome, particularly to a coin list.