Aster vs Lighter RH

Aster leads on all 4 live benchmarks. Aster wins on Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized (1.93 bps vs 2.88 bps), Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked ($1.42B vs $541.32M), Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue (586 vs 57), Perp DEX asset breadth (124 vs 43).

Read methodology Last measured Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:03:30 UTCWindow: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks

Aster

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.

Lighter RH

Side by side measurements

Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized

Trading

Aster

Leads

1.93 bps

p99: 0.14 bps
rank: #2
samples: 505

Lighter RH

Trails

2.88 bps

p99: -3.44 bps
rank: #8
samples: 505

Funding cost to hold a long 24h

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Funding is signed. Positive means longs pay shorts, negative means longs get paid to hold. Venues settle on different native periods (1h for Hyperliquid and dYdX, 4h or 8h elsewhere); every figure is normalized from the venue's own quoted rate and interval before ranking. Funding is only the holding cost. Opening costs (taker fee, spread, impact) are the companion bench perp-fees.

Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked

Trading

Aster

Leads

$1.42B

p99: $1.83B
rank: #5
samples: 2,875

Lighter RH

Trails

$541.32M

p99: $559.71M
rank: #8
samples: 2,379

24h perp volume

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Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue

Trading

Aster

Leads

586

p99: 586
rank: #1
samples: 2,875

Lighter RH

Trails

p99: 57
rank: #19
samples: 2,379

Active markets

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Perp DEX asset breadth: non-crypto markets live, forex + stocks + indices + commodities

Trading

Aster

Leads

124

p99: 124
rank: #3
samples: 2,479

Lighter RH

Trails

p99: 43
rank: #9
samples: 2,379

Non-crypto markets

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Market count reflects the Mobula perp pairs catalog at query time. Only mainnet markets are counted (testnets excluded). Asset class tags (forex, stocks, indices, commodities) are assigned by Mobula's editorial taxonomy and updated when new pairs are listed. Venues not in the Mobula catalog (Hyperliquid, GMX, dYdX, Ostium, Vertex, Paradex, Aster) are monitored separately: their catalogs are crypto-only or verified crypto-only by native API.

Frequently asked questions

Aster vs Lighter RH: which one is better?

Aster and Lighter RH are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Aster leads on Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, Aster or Lighter RH?

On the Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized benchmark, Aster leads at 1.93 bps versus Lighter RH at 2.88 bps. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Aster vs Lighter RH comparison measured?

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.

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How this pair was selected

Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing; panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.