Odaily Planet Daily News BitMEX conducted a comprehensive analysis of all perpetual contract tokens launched on major centralized exchanges (BitMEX, Binance, Bybit and OKX) from the beginning of 2025 to March 18, 2025. By studying price trends and patterns of specific exchanges, it aims to provide traders with operational insights on newly launched perpetual contracts.
The analysis results show that BitMEX has more listings that appreciate after the first day (58.33% of listings), and these "winners" show significantly higher returns-among all analyzed exchanges, BitMEX's average return (62.55%), median return (23.21%) and maximum return (296.44%) are all ranked highest. First-day price performance varies by exchange: on BitMEX, only 41.7% of perpetual contracts reached their all-time highs on the first day of trading. This is in stark contrast to OKX’s 70.83% and Binance’s 50% reaching their all-time highs on the first day.
Most new listings peak within 1 week: For tokens that continue to appreciate after listing, most reach their highest prices within the first week (BitMEX: median 6 days).