DEXTools Reports 67,000 New Tokens Minted Daily with Only 1% Survival Rate

For anyone using launchpads, sniping fresh pools, or “researching early-stage opportunities,” this is the base rate. Not the pitch deck. Not the Telegram pinned message. The base rate says most new tokens are born with no real market and disappear from active trading almost immediately.

The liquidity layer is where the corpse shows first

DEXTools says roughly 76% of newly launched tokens arrive with negligible liquidity. That is the part retail usually learns too late.

A token can exist on-chain. A pool can exist. A chart can print candles. None of that means there is a tradable market underneath it. If liquidity is negligible, there may be no practical way to enter or exit without getting shredded by slippage, bots, or simple absence of counterparties.

I would treat this as the first filter before reading any “community-led” nonsense:

• Is there meaningful pooled liquidity?
• Is that liquidity deep enough for your intended position size?
• Is trading activity real, or just launch noise?
• Is the pool alive after the first day, not just the first hour?

DEXTools’ sample also points to a grim median picture: many new pools effectively launch with no usable liquidity. That is not a small tokenomics issue. That is the entire market structure missing.

One week is the kill zone

The reported decay curve is brutal. DEXTools says 36% of tracked tokens were still actively traded 24 hours after launch. By seven days, that fell to around 1%. By 30 days, it rounded to zero.

That does not prove every failed token is a scam. It does prove something more useful: survival is rare enough that every new launch should be treated as guilty until its mechanics prove otherwise.

The launchpad industry loves to sell access. Early access. Fair access. Community access. Pick your adjective. But access to what? If the asset has no staying power, “early” just means you got closer to the blast radius.

The important distinction here is between creation and persistence. Creating a token is trivial. Keeping it actively traded for a week is the hard part. That is where liquidity, distribution, market-making, buyer retention, and actual demand stop being marketing terms and become visible on-chain facts.

Solana looks different, not safe

DEXTools’ breakdown says Solana dominates the launch count by a wide margin, driven by memecoin launchpads. It also notes Solana is an outlier on negligible liquidity: only 18% of sampled new Solana launches fell into that tier, because bonding-curve launchpads seed a baseline of liquidity at creation.

That matters. But do not confuse “different failure mode” with “safe.”

A seeded bonding curve can make the first few minutes look cleaner than an empty EVM pool. It can create a minimum trading surface. It does not create durable demand. It does not guarantee active trading after a week. It does not turn a ticker into a business.

DEXTools also reports sharp differences in 24-hour survival by chain: Solana at 83%, Base at 22%, Arbitrum at 8%. Useful data, but not a permission slip. A token surviving 24 hours is not the same as a token surviving distribution, liquidity migration, insider exits, or simple attention decay.

For launchpad users, the practical takeaway is boring and therefore valuable: stop judging launches by mint velocity. Judge them by liquidity quality and post-launch survival. If a project cannot show a real market after the first hype window, the token is not “early.” It is probably already dead.

The next time a launch advertises speed, volume, or “massive community interest,” run the colder checklist. Liquidity first. Trading persistence second. Distribution third. Everything else is decoration.