Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized
TradingAster
Trails1.09 bps
- p99
- 1.23 bps
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 3
Polymarket
Leads0.40 bps
- p99
- 3.00 bps
- rank
- #2
- samples
- 3
Aster vs Polymarket
Aster leads on 3 of 4 shared benchmarks, Polymarket on 1. Aster wins on Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked ($1.20B vs $48.59M), Perp DEX open interest, live USD notional ranked ($920.05M vs $21.94M), Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked (0.0058% vs 0.011%). Polymarket wins on Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized (0.40 bps vs 1.09 bps).
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.
Polymarket
The largest crypto prediction market, settled on Polygon via UMA optimistic oracle. CLOB-style order book hosted on the Polymarket gateway with sub-second publish latency for live odds.
Side by side measurements
Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked
TradingAster
Leads$1.20B
- p99
- $1.27B
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 5,759
Polymarket
Trails$48.59M
- p99
- $48.82M
- rank
- #9
- samples
- 270
Perp DEX open interest, live USD notional ranked
TradingAster
Leads$920.05M
- p99
- $935.90M
- rank
- #2
- samples
- 5,751
Polymarket
Trails$21.94M
- p99
- $22.00M
- rank
- #10
- samples
- 270
Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked
TradingAster
Leads0.0058 %
- p99
- 0.0048%
- rank
- #8
- samples
- 2,874
Polymarket
Trails0.011 %
- p99
- 0%
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 142
How this pair was selected
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.