Lighter vs trade.xyz

Lighter leads on 1 of 4 shared benchmarks, trade.xyz on 3. Lighter wins on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue (214 vs 120). trade.xyz wins on Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked ($8.26B vs $2.86B), Perp DEX asset breadth (120 vs 90), Perp DEX volume to open interest (1.888x vs 5.57x). Data as of 2026-11-07 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks
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Lighter

Onchain perp DEX with a fully onchain orderbook on a zkSync rollup. ZK proofs verify matching, no off-chain sequencer for trade execution.

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trade.xyz

trade.xyz operates the largest HIP-3 builder-deployed dex on Hyperliquid: 70+ tokenized US equity, index, and commodity perp markets under the xyz namespace, collecting a deployer fee on every fill.

Side by side measurements

Perp DEX asset breadth: non-crypto markets live, stocks + indices + forex + commodities

Trading

Lighter

Trails

90

p99
90
rank
#5
samples
2,880

trade.xyz

Leads

120

p99
120
rank
#4
samples
2,880
Non-crypto markets
Lightern/atrade.xyzn/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.

Rolling 24h · Non-crypto marketsRaw JSON

Perp DEX volume to open interest: 24h turnover per dollar of OI, live

Trading

Lighter

Trails

5.57x

p99
6.75x
rank
#17
samples
2,880

trade.xyz

Leads

1.888x

p99
2.31x
rank
#11
samples
2,880
Volume / OI (24h)
Lightern/atrade.xyzn/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.

Rolling 24h · Volume / OI (24h)Raw JSON

Frequently asked questions

Lighter vs trade.xyz: which one is better?

Lighter and trade.xyz are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Lighter leads on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue. trade.xyz 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, Lighter or trade.xyz?

On the Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue benchmark, Lighter leads at 214 versus trade.xyz at 120. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which has the higher 24h perp volume, Lighter or trade.xyz?

On the Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked benchmark, trade.xyz leads at $8.26B versus Lighter at $2.86B. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Lighter vs trade.xyz 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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.