gains.trade leads on 1 of 2 shared benchmarks, Polymarket on 1. gains.trade wins on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL (0.040% vs 0.041%). Polymarket wins on Perp DEX open interest, live USD notional ranked ($26.26M vs $5.87M).
Perp DEX on Polygon, Arbitrum, Base and Solana. Pool-based execution against the gToken vaults, oracle-priced trades with synthetic leverage.
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.
gains.trade
Leads0.040 %
Polymarket
Trails0.041 %
Per chain
| Chain | gains.trade | Polymarket |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 0.040% | 0.043% |
| BTC | 0.040% | 0.041% |
| SOL | 0.050% | 0.043% |
gains.trade
Trails$5.87M
Polymarket
Leads$26.26M
gains.trade and Polymarket are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. gains.trade leads on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL. Polymarket leads on Perp DEX open interest, live USD notional ranked. 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, gains.trade leads at 0.040% versus Polymarket at 0.041%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Perp DEX open interest, live USD notional ranked benchmark, Polymarket leads at $26.26M versus gains.trade at $5.87M. 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.