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How Many Cryptocurrencies Are There? Millions made, thousands tracked.
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There is no single answer, because the trackers count different things. On October 29, 2026, CoinGecko tracked 22,569 cryptocurrencies and CoinMarketCap ranked 8,072. CoinMarketCap's full database, which lists tokens automatically from on-chain data, held 65.04 million. Underneath those totals, CoinGecko saw 24.04 million new tokens appear on its DEX tracker in just 13 months, and 13.4 million tokens stop trading between mid-2021 and the end of 2025.
Short answer: millions of cryptocurrencies have been created, tens of thousands are tracked by the major data sites, and far fewer are traded in any meaningful way. Which number is "right" depends on which of those you mean.
Cryptocurrency counts at a glance
- 22,569 cryptocurrencies tracked by CoinGecko, October 29, 2026.
- 8,072 assets ranked by CoinMarketCap, October 29, 2026.
- 65.04 million entries in CoinMarketCap's full database, most of them listed automatically.
- 24.04 million new tokens on CoinGecko's GeckoTerminal, January 2025 to January 2026.
- 13.4 million tokens that stopped trading, July 2021 to December 2025.
- 68.67% of Pump.fun tokens had their last bonding-curve trade on launch day.
Tracker counts are our own snapshots from October 29, 2026. On October 30, CoinGecko showed 22,591 and CoinMarketCap ranked 8,074. Live counts move every day.
How cryptocurrencies are counted
The word "cryptocurrency" covers several very different things, so it helps to know what is being counted before reading any total.
Coins and tokens. A coin is the native asset of its own blockchain, like BTC on Bitcoin or ETH on Ethereum. A token is issued on top of an existing blockchain through a smart contract. Almost everything created today is a token, because launching one takes minutes and costs very little.
Contracts and projects. One project can exist as several token contracts on different chains, like the same stablecoin issued on Ethereum, Tron and Solana. Some datasets count each contract. Others count the project once.
| Level | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Discovered | A token contract exists on-chain and a data provider has picked it up | CoinMarketCap's 65.04 million database entries |
| Tracked | A data site has reviewed the asset against its listing criteria | CoinGecko's 22,569 tracked cryptocurrencies |
| Ranked | The asset meets extra requirements, such as trading on an integrated exchange, to get a rank | CoinMarketCap's 8,072 ranked assets |
| Actively traded | The asset has recent, meaningful trading | No industry-wide count exists |
Inactive is not the same as delisted. A token can stop trading without being removed from a tracker, and a tracker can delist a token that still trades somewhere else. Neither status alone proves a project is dead or a scam.
CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap count differently
- CoinGecko lists an asset only if it passes a review, and says meeting the criteria does not guarantee a listing. Its research team also draws on GeckoTerminal, its decentralised exchange tracker, which sees far more tokens than the main site lists.
- CoinMarketCap says that since it launched DexScan, the majority of assets are listed automatically from on-chain data, many without a verified name, website or logo. Only tracked listings get a CoinMarketCap rank.
That is how one site can show 22,569 and the other 65.04 million on the same day without either being wrong.
How many cryptocurrencies have been created
2021 to April 2024: from 443,513 to 2.5 million tokens
CoinGecko's count of tokens recorded on GeckoTerminal grew 5.7 times between the end of 2021 and April 11, 2024. Between January 1 and April 11, 2024 alone, 540,630 tokens were added, about 5,300 a day, and March 2024 set a monthly record of 195,735.
The yearly additions are our arithmetic from CoinGecko's cumulative figures.
January 2025 to January 2026: 24.04 million new tokens
CoinGecko's 2026 CEX and DEX trading report counts 24.04 million tokens listed on GeckoTerminal over 13 months, January 2025 to January 2026. That averages roughly 1.85 million a month, and it is about 9.5 times everything CoinGecko had recorded up to April 2024.
It is a count of tokens appearing on one DEX tracker, not a census of every token on every chain. The two studies may also cover different chains and sources, so we have not joined them into one continuous line. They point the same way, though: token creation exploded.
Why creation took off
The main driver is launchpads. Services like Pump.fun on Solana let anyone create a tradable token in a few clicks, with no code, no audit and almost no cost. Most of what they produce is memecoins built for a short burst of speculation. Creating a token is not the same as building a cryptocurrency: most never reach a major tracker, a centralised exchange, or more than a handful of trades.
Created against listed
In the same 13 months, MEXC listed 1,281 tokens and Gate listed 1,273, the most of any centralised exchange in CoinGecko's report. That is roughly one MEXC listing for every 18,800 new GeckoTerminal tokens. The two datasets do not describe the same population, so the ratio only shows scale: the gap between launching a token and getting it in front of mainstream traders is enormous.
How many cryptocurrencies have failed
CoinGecko counts about 13.4 million tokens that failed between July 1, 2021 and December 31, 2025, which it puts at 53.2% of all cryptocurrencies on GeckoTerminal.
- What "failed" means here: no longer actively traded. It does not mean the token was a scam, was hacked, or was formally shut down.
- Who was counted: only tokens with at least one trade before going quiet, and only Pump.fun tokens that had graduated to an outside exchange.
Shares of the 13,407,627 total are our arithmetic from CoinGecko's annual figures.
- 2025 dominated. 86.3% of every failure in the study happened in that one year.
- Failures followed creation. They jumped in 2024 and 2025, the same years launchpads made creating a token almost effortless.
- 2021 is half a year. The study starts on July 1, 2021, and far fewer tokens existed then.
Why tokens stop trading
Trading data cannot tell you why a token went quiet. The usual reasons are thin liquidity pools that drain or never fill, memecoin attention moving on, teams running out of money, and projects migrating to a new contract or chain. Some are deliberate rug pulls where insiders sell and walk away, but on-chain volume alone cannot separate those from the rest.
How long newly created tokens survive
No verified survival rate exists for all cryptocurrencies. The best data is platform-specific. CoinGecko studied 18,675,645 tokens launched on Pump.fun between January 14, 2024 and June 18, 2026, and measured the days between each token's creation and its last recorded trade on Pump.fun's bonding curve.
68.67% of the Pump.fun tokens CoinGecko studied had their last tracked bonding-curve trade on the day they launched. 87.93% were done within seven days, and only 7.55% traded on the curve beyond 30 days.
What this study does not show
A bonding curve is the automatic pricing a Pump.fun token trades on at launch. Tokens that attract enough demand graduate to an outside exchange, where trading carries on. The study only sees the curve, so a token whose curve went quiet on day one may still be trading elsewhere. It shows that the vast majority of Pump.fun launches see little sustained activity. It does not show that two thirds of all cryptocurrencies die on launch day, and it says nothing about other platforms or chains.
Which cryptocurrency categories grew the most
While millions of tokens come and go on launchpads, the smaller universe CoinGecko actually lists has changed shape too.
Growth multiples are our arithmetic from CoinGecko's counts.
- Tokenised assets grew fastest. Tokenised stocks and real-world assets, which put things like equities, bonds and commodities on-chain, went from small niches to hundreds and thousands of listings.
- AI went from niche to major category, growing more than twelvefold in a little over two years.
- DeFi is still the most listed non-meme category, with 2,328 coins in May 2026, but grew more slowly than the newer sectors. Memecoins, across all ten sub-categories, numbered 3,287.
- Gaming grew the least of the categories here.
These counts only cover what CoinGecko has classified, and one asset can sit in several categories, so the totals do not add up to anything.
How many stablecoins are there
CoinGecko's stablecoin category grew from 131 assets in January 2024 to 573 in May 2026, about 4.4 times.
A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady value, usually pegged one to one to a currency like the US dollar. Most are backed by reserves such as cash and Treasury bills. Others use crypto collateral or algorithms. Hundreds exist, but two dominate real use: Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC). Neither peg is guaranteed, and stablecoins can lose theirs, briefly or for good, depending on how they are built and backed.
That steadiness is why stablecoins matter for crypto payments, including casino deposits. It is also why our ledger keeps one record per coin: a USDT test is measured in dollars, while a Bitcoin test can gain or lose value while the money sits in the casino.
Why CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap report different numbers
The gap between the two biggest data sites is not a mistake. It comes from three differences in method:
- What gets in. CoinMarketCap's full database lists tokens automatically from on-chain data, which is why it reaches tens of millions. CoinGecko's tracked count is assets that passed its review.
- What gets ranked. CoinMarketCap only ranks tracked listings, which need market data from exchanges it integrates with. That is why its ranked total, 8,072, is far below CoinGecko's tracked total of 22,569.
- How prices and supply are worked out. Even for the same coin, the two sites can use different exchanges, price sources and circulating supply estimates, so market caps for the same asset do not always match.
The practical lesson: when you see a cryptocurrency count, check which site it comes from, which list it refers to, and the date it was taken.
How to check the counts yourself
| Figure | Where to look |
|---|---|
| CoinGecko tracked count | The "Coins" figure in the stats bar at the top of CoinGecko's homepage. |
| CoinMarketCap full database | The "Cryptos" figure in the stats bar at the bottom of CoinMarketCap's homepage. |
| CoinMarketCap ranked count | The "out of" total in the pagination under CoinMarketCap's main ranking table. |
| The historical studies | CoinGecko's research section, which publishes the count, failure, Pump.fun and category studies used here. |
| One specific token | Search it on both sites and check whether it is listed, its 24-hour volume, and its markets tab for which exchanges actually trade it. A listed token with near-zero volume is effectively inactive. |
Always note the date you checked. A count without a date is not a statistic.
What sits behind this
The three tracker counts are our own snapshots, read on October 29, 2026. Neither site publishes historical homepage counts, so they cannot be reconstructed later. That is why we give the date and a second reading from October 30. Every other figure is reported by CoinGecko's research team. Where we did arithmetic on top, such as yearly additions, shares of the failure total, growth multiples, the monthly average and the MEXC ratio, the page says so.
Most figures here come from one company. CoinGecko runs both the tracker and the research, and no independent census exists to check it against. We have left out market caps, rankings and price performance on purpose: they change daily and say nothing about how many cryptocurrencies exist. For the money side of crypto gambling, see our crypto gambling statistics, and for the casino side, how many online casinos there are. If you find an error, tell us and we will correct it with the date shown.
Cryptocurrency numbers: quick answers
How many cryptocurrencies are there?
It depends how you count. On October 29, 2026, CoinGecko tracked 22,569 cryptocurrencies, CoinMarketCap ranked 8,072, and CoinMarketCap's full database, mostly listed automatically from on-chain data, held 65.04 million entries.
How many new cryptocurrencies are created each month?
CoinGecko counted 24.04 million new tokens on its GeckoTerminal DEX tracker from January 2025 to January 2026, about 1.85 million a month. That covers GeckoTerminal only, not every chain, and most are memecoins from launchpads.
How many cryptocurrencies have failed?
CoinGecko counts about 13.4 million tokens that stopped being actively traded between July 1, 2021 and December 31, 2025, which it puts at 53.2% of all cryptocurrencies on GeckoTerminal. 11.56 million of them failed in 2025 alone. Failed means no longer traded, not necessarily a scam.
How many cryptocurrencies are actively traded?
No industry-wide count exists. The closest proxies are CoinGecko's tracked count and CoinMarketCap's ranked count, which both apply minimum standards, though a listed token can still have almost no real volume.
Why does CoinMarketCap show more cryptocurrencies than CoinGecko?
CoinMarketCap lists most tokens automatically from on-chain data, which pushes its full database into the tens of millions. Its ranked list, which needs exchange market data, is actually smaller than CoinGecko's tracked list.
Sources
Every figure above traces to one of these, or to our own dated tracker snapshots.
- CoinGecko, homepage tracked countcoingecko.com
- CoinMarketCap, homepage database and ranked countscoinmarketcap.com
- CoinGecko, methodology and listing reviewcoingecko.com
- CoinMarketCap, listing guidelines, DexScan and tracked listingssupport.coinmarketcap.com
- CoinGecko Research, how many cryptocurrencies are therecoingecko.com
- CoinGecko, 2026 CEX and DEX trading activity report, pages 4 and 14 (PDF)assets.coingecko.com
- CoinGecko Research, how many cryptocurrencies have failedcoingecko.com
- CoinGecko Research, average lifespan of Pump.fun tokenscoingecko.com
- CoinGecko Research, most listed coin categories, 2024 to 2026coingecko.com
- CoinGecko Research, all publicationscoingecko.com