A new study has found that almost 90% of cryptocurrencies have a low trading volume, with just 2% of crypto coins having a healthy liquidity.

The report was compiled by BitStacker and it revealed that there are only 153 crypto coins with high volume that are traded in many exchanges. In contrast, there are 5,886 cryptocurrencies with very low volume that are traded in a very small number of exchanges.

This reaffirms the fact that there is unequal balance of trading volume among the thousands of cryptocurrencies and it provides a warning against speculating on crypto coins with a low liquidity.

Why the cryptocurrency liquidity research is important

As of December 12 2022, there were 6,656 crypto coins tracked by this study, and only 2.30% of these cryptocurrencies were categorized as having a good liquidity.

Liquidity is a term used to refer to the trading volume of an asset. The liquidity metric used in the study aims to highlight those crypto coins that have a low daily trading volume, or those cryptocurrencies where the trades take place in a very limited number of exchanges.

Such an understanding of liquidity is useful in that it can explain more than something like market capitalization. In particular, it can help traders understand when it might be difficult to buy or sell significant quantities of any crypto coin.

Kris Lucas, BitStacker.com analyst said:

“The fact that so many cryptocurrencies suffer from a low liquidity or trading volume is another reminder of how risky it can be to speculate in some of the smaller crypto coins. After all, there is nothing stopping an unregulated cryptocurrency exchange from creating statistics that overvalue a particular coin.”