This data is important because the easier a project is to invest in, the more investments there tend to be. When a project is listed in more markets, they are exposed to more investors and associated capital.

​Data is pulled quarterly, from the top 25 projects on coinmarketcap.com.
Specific amounts are found by summing the number of exchanges listed under the "Markets" tab, for each coin.
​"NA" denotes projects that were not listed in the top 25 market cap, prior to the current quarterly measurement. ​

​Highest grades awarded to projects listed on the most exchanges-
 [>200 markets = A+]   [50-200 markets = A]    [25-50 markets = B]   [15-25 markets = C]   [<15 markets = C-] ​

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2020

​The Data:

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. 

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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VOLUME

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

​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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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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2019

The Data:

Apology on data and videos made before Q3 2020- 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 also be slightly higher numbers of exchange listings for Ripple, EOS, Tron, USDC, and Bitcoin Cash. These differences were due to a data capture error, discovered in 2020. 

Video highlights from the Q2 2019 data:

Video highlights from the Q1 2019 data:

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2018

The Data:

Apology on data and videos made before Q3 2020- 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 also be slightly higher numbers of exchange listings for Ripple, EOS, Tron, USDC, and Bitcoin Cash. These differences were due to a data capture error, discovered in 2020. 

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

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