{"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":5225850000,"leader":{"name":"Hyperliquid","slug":"hyperliquid","value":5225850000},"rankings":[{"name":"Hyperliquid","slug":"hyperliquid","ms":{"p50":5225850000,"p90":5225850000,"p99":5225850000,"mean":5225850000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":347},{"name":"Aster","slug":"aster","ms":{"p50":1688240000,"p90":1688240000,"p99":1688240000,"mean":1688240000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407},{"name":"Lighter","slug":"lighter","ms":{"p50":1494720000,"p90":1494720000,"p99":1494720000,"mean":1494720000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407},{"name":"Hyperliquid HIP-3","slug":"hyperliquid-hip3","ms":{"p50":695307000,"p90":695307000,"p99":695307000,"mean":695307000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":309},{"name":"Extended","slug":"extended","ms":{"p50":141314000,"p90":141314000,"p99":141314000,"mean":141314000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407},{"name":"Gains","slug":"gains","ms":{"p50":56875100,"p90":56875100,"p99":56875100,"mean":56875100},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407},{"name":"GMX V2","slug":"gmx","ms":{"p50":56587100,"p90":56587100,"p99":56587100,"mean":56587100},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407},{"name":"dYdX v4","slug":"dydx","ms":{"p50":30264600,"p90":30264600,"p99":30264600,"mean":30264600},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407},{"name":"Orderly","slug":"orderly","ms":{"p50":26399200,"p90":26399200,"p99":26399200,"mean":26399200},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407},{"name":"Paradex","slug":"paradex","ms":{"p50":14644900,"p90":14644900,"p99":14644900,"mean":14644900},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407},{"name":"Aevo","slug":"aevo","ms":{"p50":3072320,"p90":3072320,"p99":3072320,"mean":3072320},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":407}],"sparkline":[4363210000,4363210000,4363210000,4363210000,4357770000,4357770000,4357770000,4357770000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225650000,5225650000,5225650000,5225650000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000,5225850000],"sampleSize":4319,"asOf":"2026-09-21T22:25:30.538Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-09-21T22:25:30.538Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":11,"headline":"Hyperliquid leads daily perp volume at $5.23B (24h) on Perp DEX daily volume 2026: Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, GMX, Gains, dYdX by UTC day, backfilled.","quote":"Hyperliquid leads daily perp volume at $5.23B (24h) on Perp DEX daily volume 2026: Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, GMX, Gains, dYdX by UTC day, backfilled. 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 2026-09-21. 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 2026-09-21}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Perp DEX daily volume 2026: Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, GMX, Gains, dYdX by UTC day, backfilled. Retrieved September 21, 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  - 2026-09-21\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"}