Aster leads on 4 of 4 shared benchmarks, dYdX on 0. Aster wins on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL (0.050% vs 0.052%), Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked ($810.59M vs $6.90M), Perp DEX open interest, live USD notional ranked ($942.65M vs $42.09M), Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked (0.0075% vs 0.019%).
Aster is a decentralized perps exchange (ex-ApolloX, backed by YZi Labs) on BNB Chain and other EVM networks, with a Binance-compatible API and 8 hour funding periods.
Perp DEX on the dYdX Chain, a Cosmos SDK appchain. Orderbook with off-chain matching and onchain settlement, validators propagate orders via the mempool.
Aster
Leads0.050 %
dYdX
Trails0.052 %
Per chain
| Chain | Aster | dYdX |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 0.051% | 0.077% |
| BTC | 0.050% | 0.052% |
| SOL | 0.057% | 0.079% |
Aster
Trails1.16 bps
dYdX
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Aster
Leads$810.59M
dYdX
Trails$6.90M
Aster
Leads$942.65M
dYdX
Trails$42.09M
Aster
Leads0.0075 %
dYdX
Trails0.019 %
Aster and dYdX are compared on 5 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Aster leads on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL benchmark, Aster leads at 0.050% versus dYdX at 0.052%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.
A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.