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EXCHANGE LISTINGS

The more exchanges a project is listed on, the easier it is for investors to buy-in. See below for more details and examples on how this evaluation metric can be used.

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• Specific amounts are found by summing the number of exchanges listed under the "Markets" tab, for each coin.
• Highest grades awarded to projects listed on the most exchanges- [>200 markets = A+]   [120-200 markets = A]    [50-120 markets = B]   [15-50 markets = C]   [<15 markets = C-]. Note- This scale was re-adjusted in Q4 2020 as there were more exchanges, in general.
• ​​"NA" denotes projects that were not listed in the top 25 market cap, prior to the quarterly measurement. ​​​
• More exchanges tend to emerge when there is a bull market (lots of buying) occurring in the crypto markets. 

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2020

​The Data:

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Q4 2020 Highlights-​​

• ​This quarter, projects with the most exchange listings was a good predictor of the top 7 market cap coins.
• There were almost 20% more exchanges that emerged, since last quarter.
• Most projects increased the number of exchanges they are listed on, by at least 10%, since last quarter. 

• The only project that didn’t increase the number of exchanges it is listed on was Ethereum Classic.
  • Ethereum Classic also dropped to 37th in market cap. I wonder if it will ever return to the top 25.​

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Q3 2020 Highlights-​​

How many exchanges the top 25 coins are listed on. Trading volume report for the top 25 cryptocurrencies. Why this is all important. ​

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Q2 2020 Highlights-

• Tezos and Chainlink saw some of the biggest increases.
• Seemed like there were more exchanges, in general, compared to last quarter.
• See below for interesting info on what exchanges were responsible for the majority of trading volume of each coin. ​

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Q1 2020 Highlights-​​

• Stellar Lumens, and Crypty.com chain all dropped off a few exchange listings, while all other projects gained listings. 
• Biggest gainers were EOS and Tezos. 

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EXCHANGE VOLUME

Having too much of a given coin’s trading volume occur on one exchange, makes that coin more vulnerable if the exchange is compromised. 

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Exchanges responsible for the most trading volume of each coin, in Q4 2020-

• HBTC exchange is responsible for the following amount of trading volume of each coin:
  
  • 33% of Maker
    
  • 20% of Binance Coin
    
  • 19% of Chainlink
    
  • 17% of yearn.funance
    
  • 15% of Polkadot
    
  • 13% of Cosmos
    
  • 12% of Neo
    
• EtherFlyer exchange is responsible for the following amount of trading volume of each coin:
  
  • 17% of Tron
    
  • 10% of Ethereum
    
  • 10% of Litecoin
    
  • 9% of Bitcoin
    
  • 8% of EOS (and 8% on IDCM)
    
  • 6% of US Dollar Tether (4% on Binance, according to CoinGecko)
    
• Binance exchange is responsible for the following amount of trading volume of each coin:
  
  • 25% of IOTA
    
  • 20% of Binance Coin
    
  • 9% of Stellar Lumens
    
  • 9% of Tezos
    
• OKEx exchange is responsible for the following amount of trading volume of each coin:
  
  • 80% of Wrapped Bitcoin
    
  • 15% of Crypto.com Coin
    
• CITEX exchange is responsible for the following amount of trading volume of each coin:
  
  • 17% of Monero
    
  • 9% of Dash
    
• Bitribe exchange is responsible for the following amount of trading volume of each coin:
  
  • 9% of Ripple
    
  • 8% of Bitcoin Cash
    
• DragonEX exchange is responsible for 76% of Unus Sed Leo’s trading volume. 
  
• STEX exchange is responsible for 62% of Hedge Trade’s trading volume. 
  
• EXX exchange is responsible for 28% of Huobi Token’s trading volume. 
  
• Xthea Global exchange is responsible for 26% of Filecoin’s trading volume. 
  
• Omgfin exchange is responsible for 23% of US Dollar Coin’s trading volume. 
  
• OceanEx exchange is responsible for 20% of VeChain’s trading volume. 
  
• Uniswap exchange is responsible for 18% of Dai’s trading volume. 
  
• Upbit exchange is responsible for 15% of Nem’s trading volume. 
  
• WBF exchange is responsible for 11% Cardano’s trading volume. 
  
• IDCM exchange is responsible for 11% of Ethereum Classic’s trading volume. 
  
• Huobi exchange is responsible for 8% of Bitcoin SV’s trading volume. ​
  

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Exchanges responsible for the most trading volume of each coin, in Q3 2020-

• IDCM is responsible for 
  • 23% of Litecoin’s trading volume
  • Almost 7% of Bitcoin’s trading volume
• ZG.com is responsible for 
  • 42% of Ripple
  • 36% of Dash
  • 31% of EOS
  • 26% of Cosmos
  • 24% of Cardano
  • 19% of Bitcoin Cash
  • 15% of Ethereum Classic
  • 9% of Etherum
• Binance is responsible for 
  • 36% of Binance volume 
  • 28% of IOTA
  • 16% of VeChain
  • 14% of Chainlink
• Citex is responsible for 47% of Monero
• DigiFinex is responsible for 21% of yearn.finance 
• DragonEX is responsible for 89% of LEO
• EtherFlyer is responsible for 15% of TRON
  • 2% of USDT
• EXX is responsible for 23% of Huobi
• HBTC is responsible for 
  • 58% of Maker
  • 25% of Polkadot
  • 21% of NEO
  • 16% of BTSV
  • 14% of Tezos
• OKEx is responsible for 13% of Crypto.com Coin
• Omgfin is responsible for 17% of USDC
• Sistemkoin is responsible for 7% of Stellar Lumens
• STEX is responsible for 28% of Hedge Trade

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Bonus video on suspicious trading volume numbers from coinmarketcap.com, and potential conflicts of interest with Binance buying the biggest source for crypto market data. 

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​Exchanges responsible for the most trading volume of each coin, in Q2 2020-

• DragonEx is responsible for 80% of UNUS SED LEO’s trading volume, where it's native exchange of Bitfinex is responsible for less than 1%.
• BiKi is responsible for over 18% of Huobi, where only 15% of the volume comes from the Huobi Exchange, itself.  
• PayBito is responsible for
  • 10% of Bitcoin trading volume. 
• EtherFlyer is responsible for-
  •  6% of Ethereum
  •  4% of Tether
• HCoin is responsible for 9.28% of Ripple
• Finexbos is responsible for
  • 39% of Bitcoin Cash
  • 31% of Bitcoin SV
• EXX is responsible for     
  • 9% of Litecoin
• Binance is responsible for
  • 14% of Binance Coin (but none others)
• CoinBene is responsible for
  • 6% of EOS
• BKEX is responsible for
  • 27% of Cardano
• BitForex  is responsible for
  • 17% of Tezos
  • 19% of Stellar
  • 16% of NEO
  • 27% of Cosmos
• OKEx is responsible for
  • 16% of Crypto.com Coin
  • 24% of Maker
  • 36% of IOTA
• Omgfin is responsible for
  • 30% of Chainlink
  • 31% of USDC
• MXC is responsible for
  • 14% of Monero
• Cat Ex is responsible for
  • 9% of Tron
  • 19% of Eth Classic
  • 27% of Dash

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2019

The Data:

Apology on data reported before Q3 2020. Number differences were due to a data capture error, discovered in 2020. Among the most affected- Bitcoin is consistently listed on over 500+ exchanges. Ethereum is often listed on over 300 exchanges. USDT is listed on over 100 exchanges. There may be slightly higher numbers of exchange listings for Ripple, EOS, Tron, USDC, and Bitcoin Cash. 

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Video highlights from the Q2 2019 data:

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Video highlights from the Q1 2019 data:

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2018

The Data:

Apology on data reported before Q3 2020. Number differences were due to a data capture error, discovered in 2020. Among the most affected- Bitcoin is consistently listed on over 500+ exchanges. Ethereum is often listed on over 300 exchanges. USDT is listed on over 100 exchanges. There may be slightly higher numbers of exchange listings for Ripple, EOS, Tron, USDC, and Bitcoin Cash. 

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Video highlights from the 2018 data. Warning: this is 20+ minutes of me talking about numbers.  

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