dYdX leads on 0 of 3 shared benchmarks, edgeX on 3. edgeX wins on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL (0.039% vs 0.052%), Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues (292 vs 114), Perp DEX cost invariance: all-in bps at $1M vs $1k, live slope ranked (1.099x vs 2.64x).
Perp DEX on the dYdX Chain, a Cosmos SDK appchain. Orderbook with off-chain matching and onchain settlement, validators propagate orders via the mempool.
zkSync-based perp DEX with low taker fees and a documented public REST API.
dYdX
Trails0.052 %
edgeX
Leads0.039 %
Per chain
| Chain | dYdX | edgeX |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 0.066% | 0.043% |
| BTC | 0.052% | 0.039% |
| SOL | 0.072% | 0.060% |
dYdX
Trails114
edgeX
Leads292
dYdX
Trails2.64x
edgeX
Leads1.099x
Per chain
| Chain | dYdX | edgeX |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 2.53x | 1.080x |
| BTC | 2.64x | 1.099x |
| SOL | 3.53x | 1.178x |
dYdX and edgeX are compared on 3 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. edgeX 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, edgeX leads at 0.039% 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.