Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized
TradingBybit
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Polymarket
Trails0.81 bps
- p99
- 3.00 bps
- rank
- #1
- samples
- 257
Bybit vs Polymarket
Bybit leads on 0 of 1 shared benchmarks, Polymarket on 1. Polymarket wins on Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked (0.0097% vs 0.017%).
Bybit
Bybit is one of the largest centralized derivatives exchanges, with USDT-margined linear perpetuals on hundreds of pairs and funding settled on 8 hour (some pairs 4 hour) 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 funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked
TradingBybit
Trails0.017 %
- p99
- 0.018%
- rank
- #13
- samples
- 2,874
Polymarket
Leads0.0097 %
- p99
- 0%
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 257
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.