TEXAS — October 5, 2026 — Cryptominium, an independent crypto data site, today published its Exit-Friction Index for September 2026. Of the 86 tokens with a live on-chain market on Base or Ethereum, the median lost 14.5% selling $100,000. 25.6% lost more than half.
The index measures the gap between a token's quoted price and what a fixed $100,000 sale would actually return. For each token, Cryptominium requests live routed sell quotes from a DEX aggregator (KyberSwap, falling back to ParaSwap) and compares the proceeds with a reference price from GeckoTerminal. Every token is priced at the same $100,000, so the months stay comparable. The September 2026 figures are final, measured on 1 October 2026.
Other findings from the September 2026 report:
- The middle half of tokens lost between 3.72% and 54.61% of a $100,000 sale.
- 10.5% lost under 1%. The distribution has two ends and not much of a middle.
- 16 tickers were measured on more than one chain, and the same ticker was often a different market: 1INCH lost 1.55% on Ethereum and 98.49% on Base.
The report also publishes a caveat on its own headline. The median fell from 14.99% in August to 14.53% in September, but across the 52 tokens measured in both months the median change was only -0.19 points. The sample grew from 78 tokens to 86, and the tokens that came in were harder to sell than those already there.
“A price is what the last trade happened at. It is not what you would receive,” said Wolfred Wanch, founder of Cryptominium. “We measure the difference, publish how we did it, and anyone can check the numbers against the data.”
Cryptominium relaunched on 9 August 2026 around that one question. It now tracks more than 1,000 assets and measures exit costs daily: on-chain on Base, Ethereum and BNB Chain, and on the Kraken and Coinbase order books. October's index, the first to include BNB Chain, is provisional until the month closes.
Free to use, most with no account
- an exit-cost page for every measured token;
- the Wallet Exit Report, what a whole wallet would really sell for;
- Sellability, which checks whether a token can be sold and where;
- Can It Sell?, a new round every day;
- a free JSON API with no key or sign-up, and the index data as CSV, free to use with attribution;
- a read-only MCP server at https://cryptominium.com/mcp that lets AI assistants look up measured exit costs and the monthly index.
What Cryptominium is not
It has no token, takes no custody of anyone's assets, does not sell scores or ratings, and makes no price predictions. Its quotes are estimates, not fills, and exclude gas. Nothing it publishes is investment advice.
- The September 2026 report: https://cryptominium.com/exit-index/2026-09
- The method: https://cryptominium.com/methodology
- The chart: https://cryptominium.com/card/index/2026-09.png
About Cryptominium
Cryptominium is an independent, self-funded crypto data site based in Texas. It tracks more than 1,000 assets and measures every day what selling a real position would return after liquidity, routing and slippage, on Base, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Kraken and Coinbase. It publishes the monthly Exit-Friction Index and offers free tools, including Sellability, the Wallet Exit Report, Can It Sell? and a read-only MCP server for AI assistants. Cryptominium has no token, takes no custody, and does not sell scores or ratings.
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