Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked
TradingGains
Trails$16.50M
- p99
- $18.06M
- rank
- #21
- samples
- 2,880
Kalshi
Leads$711.75M
- p99
- $884.14M
- rank
- #6
- samples
- 2,880
24h perp volume
Gainsn/aKalshin/a
Gains vs Kalshi
Gains leads on 3 of 4 shared benchmarks, Kalshi on 1. Gains wins on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue (355 vs 23), Perp DEX asset breadth (109 vs 7), Perp DEX volume to open interest (6.38x vs 19.9x). Kalshi wins on Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked ($711.75M vs $16.50M). Data as of 2026-10-06 UTC.
Gains
Perp DEX on Polygon, Arbitrum, Base and Solana. Pool-based execution against the gToken vaults, oracle-priced trades with synthetic leverage.
Kalshi
CFTC-regulated US prediction market exchange. REST trade API (trade-api/v2) with documented per-tier rate limits; the market data WebSocket requires authentication.
Side by side measurements
Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue
TradingGains
Leads355
- p99
- 355
- rank
- #2
- samples
- 2,880
Kalshi
Trails23
- p99
- 26
- rank
- #20
- samples
- 2,880
Active markets
Gainsn/aKalshin/a
Perp DEX asset breadth: non-crypto markets live, stocks + indices + forex + commodities
TradingGains
Leads109
- p99
- 109
- rank
- #5
- samples
- 2,880
Kalshi
Trails7
- p99
- 7
- rank
- #14
- samples
- 2,880
Non-crypto markets
Gainsn/aKalshin/a
Counts reflect each venue's live market catalog at query time, mainnet only. The asset class comes from the venue's own metadata where it publishes one; Hyperliquid HIP-3 dexes and dYdX publish none, so their symbols are matched against the crypto markets the other venues list and a fixed table of forex, commodity and index names. Tokenized gold (PAXG, XAUT) is a crypto token and is not counted. A market counts once whether it trades 24/7 or only during exchange hours.
Perp DEX volume to open interest: 24h turnover per dollar of OI, live
TradingGains
Leads6.38x
- p99
- 6.98x
- rank
- #20
- samples
- 2,880
Kalshi
Trails19.9x
- p99
- 24.7x
- rank
- #22
- samples
- 2,880
Volume / OI (24h)
Gainsn/aKalshin/a
The ratio is a screen, not a verdict. Both terms are the venue's own figures (24h volume and open interest as each API reports them, in USD), so a venue that counts both legs of a fill moves its ratio without changing anything real. A very low ratio (Ostium, 0.2x) means positions held for days on thin daily volume; a very high one (Kalshi, above 40x) means a day of trading dwarfs what stays open. The bands in the methodology say what each range usually means.
Frequently asked questions
Gains vs Kalshi: which one is better?
Gains and Kalshi are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Gains leads on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue. Kalshi leads on Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which has the higher active markets, Gains or Kalshi?
On the Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue benchmark, Gains leads at 355 versus Kalshi at 23. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Which has the higher 24h perp volume, Gains or Kalshi?
On the Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked benchmark, Kalshi leads at $711.75M versus Gains at $16.50M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Gains vs Kalshi 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.