How many new coins does Bybit list in a month? I would have guessed one or two. When I actually counted the last twelve months, the answer was 121. That's about ten a month, or one every three days. In the busiest month there were 30. And in their first month after listing, far more of these coins got cut in half than doubled.
Why I counted
You hear about new coins now and then. One goes up several times right after listing, another loses half its value in a few days. I heard stories like that maybe once or twice a month, so I assumed listings happened about that often.
But I was probably only remembering the loud ones. A coin that lists quietly and drifts along doesn't stick in your head. So instead of trusting that feeling, I decided to count how many coins Bybit actually listed.
How I counted
I used my own record of Bybit listings, which also keeps coins that were later delisted.
- Market: Bybit USDT perpetual futures (futures with no expiry date)
- Period: October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026 (listing time in UTC)
- Excluded: stock, ETF, commodity and currency futures, plus dated futures
The stock and ETF exclusion matters. In 2026 alone, Bybit listed 260 of these non-crypto contracts. Counting them would make it look like coin listings had exploded.
Keep in mind that this counts futures listings. A coin that only trades on Bybit spot, with no perpetual contract, isn't in these numbers. This is a count, not a trading backtest, so fees don't come into it.
121 in a year, about 10 a month
121 coins were newly listed over the year. Divided by 12, that's 10.1 a month. Divided into 365 days, it's one every 3.0 days. In other words, roughly two new coins a week.
They didn't arrive evenly. In the chart below, the first bar, October 2025, stands alone at 30. Every other month landed between 4 and 13.
| Period | New coins listed |
|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | 30 |
| Nov–Dec 2025 | 11, 13 |
| Jan–May 2026 | 13, 5, 6, 5, 5 |
| Jun–Sep 2026 | 10, 4, 8, 11 |
Looking at days instead of months, a new coin appeared on 90 of the 365 days. Most of those days had just one, but 20 days had two or three.
| Coins listed that day | Number of days |
|---|---|
| 1 | 68 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 |
In the next chart each square is one day. The colored squares are denser than I expected, and they bunch up at the start, in October 2025.
October 2025: 30 coins
I drew the busiest month, October 2025, as its own calendar. New coins showed up on 16 of its 31 days. From the 6th to the 11th there was one every day for six days straight, and on the 17th and the 23rd there were four in a single day. Thirty in a month works out to almost one a day.
That was a one-off, though. October was the only month in the past year that reached 30.
What happened in the first month
New listings tend to move hard, so I also looked at how these coins behaved in their first 30 days. I took the close of the first 15-minute candle as the listing price, then checked how high and how low the 15-minute closes went over the next 30 days.
This part covers 101 coins, not 121. I included coins listed from October 2025 through August 2026 whose first candle came within two days of listing and that had more than a week of candles. Coins listed in September didn't have a full 30 days yet, so they're left out.
| Within 30 days of listing | Coins |
|---|---|
| Went above 2x the listing price | 27 |
| Fell below half the listing price | 48 |
| Neither | 31 |
Five coins did both, which is why the three numbers add up to 106 instead of 101.
So 70 of the 101 coins either doubled or halved within a month. Halving was nearly twice as common as doubling. Only 31 coins, about three in ten, stayed relatively calm.
The longer view
I have yearly counts done the same way. Compared with the last few years, ten a month is actually on the low side.
| Year | New coins listed | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 86 | 7.2 |
| 2023 | 121 | 10.1 |
| 2024 | 216 | 18.0 |
| 2025 | 243 | 20.2 |
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 67 | 7.4 |
In 2025 Bybit listed about twenty coins a month. In 2026 coin listings dropped to around seven a month, while those 260 stock and ETF futures filled the gap. September 2025, the month just before my window, also had 30. The busy pace carried into October and then fell off from November, which is why the first month of my count stands out so much.
What I took from this
My gut was way off. I thought one or two, and it was ten. What I'd been hearing about were the coins that made the news by jumping or crashing. The rest went by without me noticing.
The other thing is how rough these coins are. Almost half of them dropped below half their listing price within a month. A new coin every three days also means a new round of that kind of volatility every three days. You could read that as frequent opportunity. It also means running into a coin that halves is just as frequent.
Caveats
- These are futures listings. Coins listed only on spot aren't included.
- Thirty in a month happened only in October 2025. In 2026 the range was 4 to 13 a month.
- The first-month numbers come from 101 coins and use 15-minute closes, so brief spikes inside a candle aren't counted.
- The yearly counts use the same method, but 2026 covers only nine months, through September.
Nothing here is investment advice. Crypto is volatile, and past results don't guarantee future returns.