{"slug":"perp-daily-volume","title":"Perp DEX daily volume 2026: Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, GMX, Gains, dYdX by UTC day, backfilled","subtitle":"Perpetual futures notional per closed UTC day for 11 rows across 10 decentralized venues (Hyperliquid's HIP-3 dexs are their own row), the same day buckets DeFiLlama's derivatives page uses, read from the sources its adapters read. Headline is the last closed day; 7 day and 30 day totals and cohort share sit next to it. History backfilled over a year and refreshed hourly.","category":"Trading","metric":"Daily perp volume","unit":"usd","status":"live","higherIsBetter":true,"filters":null,"value":9313740000,"leader":{"name":"Hyperliquid","slug":"hyperliquid","value":9313740000},"leaders":[{"name":"Hyperliquid","slug":"hyperliquid","value":9313740000}],"rankings":[{"name":"Hyperliquid","slug":"hyperliquid","value":9313740000,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":9313740000,"p90":9313740000,"p99":9313740000,"mean":9313740000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":393},{"name":"Hyperliquid HIP-3","slug":"hyperliquid-hip3","value":9155780000,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":9155780000,"p90":9155780000,"p99":9155780000,"mean":9155780000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":355},{"name":"Lighter","slug":"lighter","value":3904720000,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":3904720000,"p90":3904720000,"p99":3904720000,"mean":3904720000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":453},{"name":"Aster","slug":"aster","value":2584500000,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":2584500000,"p90":2584500000,"p99":2584500000,"mean":2584500000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":453},{"name":"Extended","slug":"extended","value":284149000,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":284149000,"p90":284149000,"p99":284149000,"mean":284149000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":453},{"name":"Orderly","slug":"orderly","value":97521600,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":97521600,"p90":97521600,"p99":97521600,"mean":97521600},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":453},{"name":"GMX V2","slug":"gmx","value":69815800,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":69815800,"p90":69815800,"p99":69815800,"mean":69815800},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":453},{"name":"Gains","slug":"gains","value":14391800,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":14391800,"p90":14391800,"p99":14391800,"mean":14391800},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":453},{"name":"Paradex","slug":"paradex","value":12925500,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":12925500,"p90":12925500,"p99":12925500,"mean":12925500},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":453},{"name":"Aevo","slug":"aevo","value":6869640,"unit":"usd","ms":{"p50":6869640,"p90":6869640,"p99":6869640,"mean":6869640},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":453}],"sparkline":[4696350000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,10768000000,9313740000],"sampleSize":4372,"asOf":"2026-11-06T00:37:13.101Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-11-06T00:37:13.101Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":10,"ranked":10,"headline":"Hyperliquid leads daily perp volume at $9.31B (24h) across 10 ranked venues.","quote":"Hyperliquid leads daily perp volume at $9.31B (24h) across 10 ranked venues. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-daily-volume).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Perp DEX daily volume 2026: Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, GMX, Gains, dYdX by UTC day, backfilled\". Retrieved 2026-11-06. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-daily-volume","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_perp_daily_volume,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Perp DEX daily volume 2026: Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, GMX, Gains, dYdX by UTC day, backfilled},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-daily-volume},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-11-06}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Perp DEX daily volume 2026: Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, GMX, Gains, dYdX by UTC day, backfilled. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-daily-volume","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Perp DEX daily volume 2026: Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, GMX, Gains, dYdX by UTC day, backfilled\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-daily-volume\r\nY2  - 2026-11-06\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/perp-daily-volume","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/perp-daily-volume","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/perp-volume-history","methodology":["Day bucket: UTC midnight to midnight, the DeFiLlama convention. The headline is the last fully closed UTC day (D-1); the current day is never shown.","One side per trade: every source counts taker notional once. Extended reports both sides per market, halved here as in the DeFiLlama adapter.","GMX V2: gmx.squids.live volumeInfos period 1d, marginVolumeUsd scaled by 1e-30, summed over Arbitrum, Avalanche, Botanix and MegaETH. Swap volume is excluded, so this is the GMX V2 Perps line, not the GMX parent.","Gains: the published series is the Dune view dune.gains.result_g_trade_stats_defi_llama, the source DeFiLlama's own adapter reads (Arbitrum, Polygon, Base, MegaETH; ApeChain is not in the view), queried at most every 12 hours.","Gains between two Dune runs: the newest day comes from backend-global.gains.trade /api/volume-mix, autoVolumeUsd + directVolumeUsd (opens and closes at full notional, resizes at the traded delta, governance-only rows excluded). It matched the view within 0.1 percent over the 60 days checked; the gap between the two is published as a divergence gauge.","Hyperliquid: info candleSnapshot 1h per market; hourly notional = base volume x (open + high + low + close) / 4, summed per day. Checked against the exchange's own dayNtlVlm at UTC midnight on 2026-09-13: 3.361B from candles vs 3.359B native.","Hyperliquid rows: the main dex is the Hyperliquid row; the HIP-3 dexs listed by perpDexs (xyz, io, mkts, para, km, flx...) are builder-deployed markets and get their own row, Hyperliquid HIP-3. DeFiLlama's single hyperliquid-perps figure sits between the two because its private indexer covers HIP-3 only partially.","Aster: fapi.asterdex.com 1d klines quoteVolume summed over TRADING perpetual symbols. Lighter: 1d candles quote volume summed over perp markets (market_id below 2048) on zkLighter mainnet and on the Robinhood chain deployment (api.rh.lighter.xyz), the two DeFiLlama's Lighter parent adds. dYdX v4: indexer 1DAY candles usdVolume summed over all perpetual markets.","Paradex: the public Metabase daily card, PERP_VOLUME column (options and spot excluded). Extended: exchange/stats/trading per day on Starknet, plus the Ethereum deployment until 2025-12-29. Orderly: md/volume/daily_stats. Aevo: statistics with instrument_type PERPETUAL per day.","Windows: 7d and 30d are sums of closed days ending on D-1 and are published only when every day in the window is present, so a partial backfill never reads as a low week. Share is the venue's window total over the sum of the cohort on the same window.","Refresh: full backfill on first boot (400 days, bounded by each source's start date; Hyperliquid candles reach back about 340 days), then every hour every venue re-reads its last three closed days in parallel so restated days converge. A venue whose source rate-limits (dYdX's indexer) or whose host is down (Extended's retired Ethereum deployment) is skipped for that sweep and keeps its stored days. Prometheus scrapes :2112/metrics every 60s.","Not covered yet: edgeX, GRVT, Pacifica, Vertex, Backpack, Jupiter, Drift and Ostium. The first three follow the same per-market candle pattern and are next; Drift and Ostium exist on DeFiLlama only through Dune queries."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}