AXIS Perpetual Goes Live on Bybit: First Candles and Supply

Bybit's AXISUSDT perpetual contract has been trading since about 13:20 UTC (16:20 MSK) on 21 October 2026, listed in the Innovation Zone with up to 20x leverage. The contract is settled in USDT and tracks Axis Robotics (AXIS). This note comes from our Listings Desk: facts from the exchange and CoinGecko, nothing about where the price might go.

AXIS Bybit listing: what, when and where

This is a futures listing, not a spot one. The Bybit announcement is titled "New listing: AXISUSDT Perpetual Contract in Innovation Zone, with up to 20x leverage". Bybit's announcement API dates it 13:20:02 UTC (16:20 MSK), and our tracker recorded it at 13:20 UTC. The page itself is rendered by script and its body was not retrievable, so we cannot quote a stated start time. What the data shows: the first 5-minute candle of AXISUSDT opens at 13:20:00 UTC, so trading was already running when the notice appeared. The instrument was created at 13:04 UTC (16:04 MSK), which is creation, not necessarily the first trade.

Contract terms as Bybit's instrument API showed them on 21 October 2026:

• Linear perpetual settled in USDT, status "Trading", symbol type "innovation".
• Leverage from 1x up to 20x. Bybit may change limits as risk changes.
• Tick size 0.0001; minimum order 1 AXIS, minimum order value 5 USDT.
• Funding every four hours, capped at +2.5% / -2.5%.

Higher leverage shrinks the distance to liquidation. The liquidation price calculator shows where that line sits for your entry.

What the token is

According to CoinGecko, Axis Robotics (also called Axis AI) is building a distributed scaling infrastructure and data engine for physical AI and robotics. Contributors guide robots through tasks in large-scale simulations, and those interactions become training data for foundation models, with a crypto-native reward system for data collection. CoinGecko lists a Base contract and the site axisrobotics.ai, and ranked the token 482 by market cap on 21 October 2026. We did not verify the team, audits or token distribution, so we do not describe them.

Supply at listing

CoinGecko showed these figures on 21 October 2026:

• Circulating supply: about 165 million AXIS.
• Total and max supply: 1 billion.
• Market cap: about $48.0 million; fully diluted value: about $291.0 million.

About 16.5% of the maximum supply is in circulation, so most of the supply is not yet circulating. We have no verified unlock schedule and do not guess one.

Previous Bybit listings

The other Bybit futures listings we covered are the DRV Bybit listing and the DNA Bybit listing. The running list is on Listings and upcoming listings, and the archive is under Listings Desk.

First hours

AXISUSDT opened at 0.3335 USDT in the 13:20 UTC candle (16:20 MSK) and last traded at 0.2860 USDT at the close of the 14:00 UTC candle, 14:05 UTC (17:05 MSK). Data: Bybit linear perpetual 5m candles, fetched on 21 October 2026 at about 14:10 UTC; the candle still open then is excluded.

The first candle printed the high of the window and closed at 0.3118. Over the next seven candles the price slid to a low of 0.2631, then the 14:00 UTC candle traded between 0.2633 and 0.2962 on about 1.49 million AXIS, the most of any candle here. Across the nine candles about 3.60 million AXIS traded. This is one exchange's tape for a contract with no earlier history, so the percentage change from the first print says little by itself.

What to watch

A new contract has no price history to anchor structure. Check the spread and the first funding settlement before you trade it, and size from your stop with the position size calculator. This page makes no call on direction.

FAQ

When did AXISUSDT start trading on Bybit? The first 5m candle opens at 13:20 UTC (16:20 MSK) on 21 October 2026. We could not read the announcement body, so we do not cite a stated start time.

What is the maximum leverage on AXISUSDT? Bybit's instrument API showed 20x on 21 October 2026.

How often is funding paid? Every four hours, with a cap of +2.5% / -2.5%.

Is AXIS a good buy? A listing notice cannot tell you that. We report schedule, contract and supply facts, and the price after listing is not known.