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Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-active-markets).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue\". Retrieved 2026-11-02. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-active-markets","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_perp_active_markets,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-active-markets},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-11-02}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-active-markets","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-active-markets\r\nY2  - 2026-11-02\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-active-markets","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/perp-active-markets","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/perp-cohort-stats","methodology":["Cadence: every 5 minutes per venue in parallel, 10 second timeout per request.","Hyperliquid: info metaAndAssetCtxs, count of non-delisted assets. Active perp markets only, crypto assets.","Lighter: orderBookDetails, count of markets where market_type==perp and status==active. Native API, mainnet only.","dYdX v4: indexer perpetualMarkets, count of non-deactivated markets.","Paradex: markets summary endpoint on Starknet L2, count of active perp markets.","edgeX: native markets endpoint, count of active perp markets on its StarkEx-settled book.","Aster: fapi exchangeInfo, count of instruments with contractType==PERPETUAL and status==TRADING on BNB Chain.","Nado (the Vertex team's venue on Ink, published as Vertex until 2026-09-22): gateway /v1/symbols, count of perp products with trading_status live.","Kalshi: margin/markets rows with status active. Vest: /v2/ticker/latest rows with status TRADING. StandX: summary.symbol_count. ApeX Omni: live perpetual and stock contracts. Jupiter Perps: markets answering market-stats. Lighter RH: active perp books on api.rh.lighter.xyz. trade.xyz: non-delisted xyz dex universe.","GRVT: public markets endpoint, count of active instruments on ZK Stack.","Extended: public markets API, count of active perp markets on StarkEx.","Aevo: public markets endpoint, count of active perp instruments on OP Stack.","Pacifica: onchain reads on the Solana program state, count of active perp markets.","Ostium: Arbitrum subgraph, count of active pairs. Covers FX and commodities alongside crypto.","Polymarket: public perps tickers endpoint on Polygon, count of listed instruments.","Gains: GET backend-arbitrum.gains.trade/trading-variables, every pair minus the ones whose max leverage override is 1 (0.001x), which is how Gains delists a pair without removing it. Covers crypto, forex, stocks, indices and commodities. Until 2026-10-12 this row read Mobula's perp pairs catalog, which listed 355 Gains pairs where 178 can be opened today, and which Mobula has since deprecated.","Nova: the same read against Nova's own trading variables, measured but carried unranked. Nova runs the same gTrade software as Gains and serves the identical 493-pair registry. Gains marks 315 of those pairs with the 0.001x delisting override and counts 178; Nova marks none, and 40 of its pairs carry no override entry at all. Its 493 is the catalog it inherited, not markets confirmed openable, so it is a different measurement from every other row (read 2026-10-22).","Headline: avg_over_time of the live market count gauge over the last 24 hours. Listings change infrequently so the 24h average is effectively the current count.","Failures: a venue that errors keeps its last gauge value and its perp_venue_health gauge drops toward 0; the leaderboard tags it as stale."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}