Number of Crypto Projects – Monthly Launch Trends by Blockchain
Every month, dozens of legitimate token-based crypto projects come online—each with spend-ready budgets for audits, listings, marketing, development, and a wide range of other professional services. So, if you sell any services to crypto projects, a chain-by-chain launch map is mission-critical. To see how this launch data feeds a full sales pipeline, skim our 2025 playbook for crypto B2B lead generation before you dive in.
LeadGenCrypto’s Crypto Launch Barometer has tracked authentic projects—not meme-coin noise—since December 2020. Below you’ll find headline charts with the most recent six months hidden. Want real-time, interactive data right up to the current month? Take it now.
Quick Highlights (May 2025 Edition)
Beneath the surface of the headline totals, launch momentum has shifted dramatically during the past six months. Layer-2 networks are accelerating, while some long-time leaders are, meanwhile, losing altitude. The three bullets below spotlight the sharpest moves—precise launch counts remain gated inside the full dashboard.
- Arbitrum steals the show: powered by a wave of new deployments in May, Arbitrum posts an eye-catching ≈1 200 % quarter-on-quarter jump, thereby overtaking Polygon for the first time in half a year.
- Base roars back: after three subdued months, Base suddenly records a ≈650 % month-on-month surge, consequently booking its strongest growth spurt since inception.
- Solana stalls while Ethereum eases: conversely, Solana’s launch flow contracts by about 70 % QoQ, and, meanwhile, Ethereum declines by roughly 60 % QoQ; nevertheless, both chains still command the largest cumulative totals even as builders migrate toward lower-fee L2s.
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How to Read the Interactive Launch Dashboard and Turn the Numbers into Revenue
Tip: Click any coloured legend label to hide / reveal a chain. The graph recalculates instantly so you can focus on only the ecosystems that matter to you.
1. New Crypto Projects Launched – Two Insight Modes
a. Monthly Bar View
A listings-sales manager at an exchange, or a free agent who lists tokens across multiple exchanges and coin-trackers, filters out projects already contacted for April 2024 and compares that count with the bar height for the same month. If 100 prospects were contacted but 676 projects actually launched, the manager’s utilisation sits at 14.7 % (100 ÷ 676 × 100). That ratio becomes an internal benchmark for evaluating lead-gen performance—useful whether you run a full sales department or work solo.
b. Cumulative Line View
Switch off the bars and turn on the cumulative line to watch the market size grow month after month. Founders can screenshot this never-shrinking staircase when pitching investors to prove the serviceable addressable market keeps expanding.
Solve-it example: A market-making firm spots two consecutive monthly dips in the bar view. They postpone hiring two new sales reps—saving US $5 k in burn each month until demand rebounds.
2. Crypto Projects by Blockchain – Share (%)
Hover any point (or tap on mobile) to see the exact market-share split for that month—always totalling 100 %. Click a chain name to isolate the remainder so smaller ecosystems are visible even beside the Ethereum iceberg.
| Your question | Dashboard action | Resulting insight |
|---|---|---|
| “Should we double down on Solana?” | Hover the latest data point: if Solana’s share jumped from 19 % → 28 %, momentum is real. | Reallocate outreach to Solana-based founders before rivals notice. |
| “Who is losing steam?” | Watch any colour band shrink for three straight months. | Reduce ad spend or partnership focus accordingly. |
Solve-it example: A marketing agency selling community-building packages sees that Solana’s share is climbing quarter-on-quarter. They reroute budget into additional banner lines on Solsan Explorer to capture more Solana-native project leads—and boost monthly revenue.
3. Crypto Projects by Blockchain – Totals
This multi-line “league table” lets you size the Total Addressable Market (TAM*) for any chain.
- Hover a point to see the running total of live projects.
- Toggle chains in the legend to compare only the ecosystems you serve (e.g. Solana vs BSC†).
| Use-case | Dashboard move | Revenue outcome |
|---|---|---|
| You sell treasury tools that support only EVM chains**. | Hide non-EVM lines; the remaining total exceeds 8 000 projects. | Confirms there’s enough head-room to warrant an outbound SDR squad***. |
| You run PR for a layer-one foundation. | Keep only your chain visible; screenshot the slope. | Shows traction in board decks and secures a bigger evangelism budget. |
Workflow Checklist
- Scan the Bar View → identifies fresh launch waves you can prospect this week.
- Check the Share Chart → validates whether the wave is chain-specific.
- Verify with the Totals Lines → confirms the ecosystem is large enough for a sales sprint.
- Execute → pull contacts from LeadGenCrypto, load your CRM, and trigger the CRYPTO-10 outreach sequence.
By following this drill every month, founders, sales managers, and freelancers replace guesswork with timestamped launch data—turning charts into booked revenue.
* TAM (Total Addressable Market) – the maximum revenue opportunity available if you captured every viable customer in a segment.
** EVM chains – blockchains compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (Ethereum, BSC†, Polygon, Base, etc.), enabling the reuse of Solidity smart contracts across ecosystems.
*** SDR squad (Sales Development Representative team) – reps dedicated to qualifying cold leads before handing warm prospects to account executives.
† BSC = BNB Smart Chain, Binance’s EVM-compatible network formerly known as Binance Smart Chain.
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Why This Data Matters to You
| Benefit | Why It Helps Service Providers |
|---|---|
| Marketing-Budget Timing | Catch launch waves early and, as shown in our case study on trimming ad waste, avoid burning cash on cold audiences. |
| Market-Size Planning | Quantify potential clients before investing in a new product line. |
| Chain Prioritisation | Focus sales efforts where launch volume is accelerating, then apply the CRYPTO-10 outreach framework to convert. |
| Prospect-Coverage Benchmark | If you emailed 100 leads but 300 projects launched, our CMC prospecting walkthrough will help close that gap. |
| Ops & Hiring Forecasts | Scale your sales team in line with projected launch volume. |
| Investor / Client Proof | Support proposals with transparent market-growth numbers. |
Why Our Dataset Beats Popular Coin Trackers
Before comparing dashboards, pause and ask: Does the data match your sales reality? Popular token counters list every contract deployment; however, service budgets hide inside far fewer projects. Consequently, we engineered our dataset for revenue teams first, speculators second—ideal for anyone trying to level the playing field in crypto lead gen.
- Longer History – CoinMarketCap’s counts start June 2022; our series begins Dec 2020 and updates monthly.
- Project-Level Focus – We track only teams capable of buying services.
- No Copycat Inflation – We consolidate duplicates so one project equals one entry.
- Meme-Coin Noise Removed – Thousands of one-day rugs never buy any service; we exclude them entirely.
These filters give you a clean, actionable view of real prospects—the exact customers you want to reach.
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Conclusion
Ultimately, these launch curves prove one thing: opportunity never pauses in crypto. Therefore, by tracking fresh numbers monthly, you position outreach before budgets dry up. Moreover, chain-specific surges signal where to focus proposals; meanwhile, flat zones warn you to pivot early. Consequently, marketing, hiring, and product road-maps become data-backed rather than gut-driven. Furthermore, our dashboard updates automatically, thus sparing you spreadsheet gymnastics and, likewise, endless tab-trawling on token counters. Nevertheless, insight without action is wasted. Hence, subscribe, download the full dataset, refine your SPF-DKIM-DMARC stack for perfect inboxing with our three-pillar deliverability guide, and subsequently brief your team tomorrow morning—because every day a new project funds the partner who emails first.