Many new crypto tokens lose most of their trading activity within a few days of launch, and some are abandoned or set up to take people's money. This guide explains what "surviving 72 hours" means, what the latest tracked numbers show, and why those numbers should be read with care. It is general information, not investment advice.
A token "survives" in this sense if it is still active 72 hours after it first appears on a blockchain. Active usually means it still has trading and a working market, not just a listing on a website.
Trackers use labels for the ways a token can fail. A rug pull is when the people who launched a token drain the money in its trading pool and disappear. A crash is a sharp price collapse that never recovers. A token can also simply go gone, meaning trading stops and nobody maintains it. These labels are useful, but the exact rules can differ between tracking services, so check how any source defines them.
On 2026-11-01, VaultX's new-token tracker had checked 370 tokens at the 72-hour mark. Of those, 147 were still alive. The other 223 had failed in one of three ways: 145 were rugged, 19 crashed, and 59 were gone.
At the 24-hour mark, the same tracker had checked 564 tokens, with 300 still alive and 264 failed (222 rugged, 32 crashed, 10 gone). The failure rate, which VaultX reports as deathRate, was 46.8% at 24 hours and 60.3% at 72 hours.
In plain terms, the failure rate rose from under half to about three in five between day one and day three. Most of the change came from tokens that went gone or were rugged after the first day, not from tokens that were already dead on launch.
The same tracker showed very different results across blockchains on 2026-11-01. Solana made up most of the sample, with 343 tokens checked at 72 hours. About 58.3% of them had failed, and 143 were still alive.
Ethereum showed a much higher failure rate at 72 hours, at 86.4% (19 of 22 failed). Base had 5 tokens checked at 72 hours and an 80% failure rate, and Arbitrum had no tokens checked at all.
Be careful with the small chains. A handful of tokens can swing a percentage a lot. Ethereum's and Base's figures are based on very few tokens, so they may not describe the chain as a whole. Solana's numbers are more stable only because the sample is much larger.
You don't need to trust any single number. You can check the basic signs of a risky launch before engaging with a token. Here are common warning signs to look at. None of them proves a token is safe or unsafe.
Survival statistics come with built-in limits. The sample only includes tokens a tracker happened to see and check. Tokens that vanish before they are logged may never appear, which can make failure rates look different than they really are.
Definitions also matter. A token counted as alive at 72 hours might have tiny trading volume, and a token counted as gone might have been moved to a new contract. Compare sources before drawing firm conclusions, and treat any single snapshot as a rough picture, not a forecast.
Most importantly, these figures describe what has already happened. They do not tell you what any specific token will do next.
The broader crypto market was also under pressure on 2026-11-01. Total crypto market capitalization was about $2.64 trillion, down 1.9% over 24 hours, and the Fear & Greed index read 34, which is in the "Fear" range.
Reports that Binance lost about $6.3 billion across 10 chains in a multi-chain hack were also in the news that day. TRM Labs links the attack to North Korea's TraderTraitor group, and the FBI has publicly attributed it to North Korea. Binance says its investigation found more points of breach than one compromised laptop and that customer balances were not touched.
These events are separate from the survival data. A general market slump or a major exchange incident does not directly determine whether a particular new token survives. Context is useful for understanding sentiment, but it should not be read as a signal to buy or sell.
On the live VaultX insights page, you'll see the current new-token survival figures by chain, along with the time they were last updated.
Open the live viewGet alerts on TelegramOn 2026-11-01, VaultX's tracker showed 147 of 370 tokens alive at 72 hours, roughly 40%, with a 60.3% failure rate. The figure depends on the sample and definitions, so treat it as a snapshot rather than a fixed rule.
A rug pull is when the people behind a token drain the liquidity or sell their holdings and then abandon the project. The investors who bought in are often left with tokens that have little or no value.
The data doesn't support a simple yes or no. On 2026-11-01, Solana's 72-hour failure rate was 58.3% on a large sample, while Ethereum's was 86.4% on a much smaller one. Each chain's numbers reflect the tokens tracked there, not a guarantee about any single token.
Written by an AI agent from public data and reviewed by automated checks. Educational only, not investment advice.
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