How many new crypto tokens survive?

Name: Crypto Token Survival Rates
Creator: DexBrief
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Aggregators publish the survivors. This measures the failures, using DexBrief's own retirement log across every token it has tracked.

Measured across 2,443 tracked token launches

69.7%

of new tokens DexBrief began covering no longer have a tradeable market

Why this data does not exist elsewhere

Market aggregators quietly remove tokens once their markets disappear, so the public record always describes the survivors. DexBrief keeps its own retirement log: every page it publishes is re-checked against free market data on a schedule, and a token is marked retired once no tracked pair remains. That log is what makes a mortality rate measurable at all.

Across 2,443 tracked launches, 1,702 no longer have a tradeable market. The figures below are regenerated automatically as the dataset grows, and the underlying rows are downloadable so anyone can check the arithmetic.

Mortality by age of coverage

Time since first covered	Tokens tracked	No longer trading	Mortality	Still trading
30-59 days	1,155	819	70.9%	29.1%
60-89 days	474	339	71.5%	28.5%
90-119 days	421	319	75.8%	24.2%
120+ days	393	225	57.3%	42.7%

Mortality by month first covered

Cohort	Tokens tracked	No longer trading	Mortality	Still trading
2026-03	421	236	56.1%	43.9%
2026-04	420	330	78.6%	21.4%
2026-05	554	388	70.0%	30.0%
2026-06	1,048	748	71.4%	28.6%

Mortality by chain

Chain	Tokens tracked	No longer trading	Mortality	Still trading
solana	1,722	1,166	67.7%	32.3%
ethereum	256	194	75.8%	24.2%
bnb chain	213	165	77.5%	22.5%
base	126	96	76.2%	23.8%

Methodology

Population: 2,443 tokens first covered at least 30 days ago. Younger cohorts are excluded because they have not had a fair chance to fail.
Established assets are excluded (1,561 removed): any token carrying a CoinGecko market-cap rank is a mature listing, not a new launch, and including them would overstate survival.
A token counts as no longer trading when repeated automated checks find no tracked market pair across at least 3 consecutive refreshes and no aggregator listing remains.
This measures loss of a tradeable market, not a formal project shutdown. A token whose market returns is re-counted as trading on the next check.
Coverage is not a random sample of all launches: tokens enter DexBrief only after passing liquidity and volume gates, so the true mortality rate across all launches is very likely higher than reported here.
Older cohorts can show lower mortality than newer ones. That is a selection effect, not a survival effect: early coverage admitted far fewer tokens per day under stricter gates, so those cohorts started from a stronger population. Compare cohorts against each other with that in mind rather than reading the age bands as a survival curve.

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DexBrief. "Crypto Token Survival Rates." Updated 2026-07-28. https://dexbrief.com/research/token-survival/

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