Lighter vs Vertex

Side by side OpenChainBench measurements. Identical layout, no editorial verdict, the live data leads. Each panel surfaces the aggregate plus the chain and region breakdowns when the underlying bench exposes them, straight from the Prometheus queries that drive the parent benchmark pages.

Read methodology Last measured Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:49:31 UTCWindow: rolling 24h1 shared benchmark

Lighter

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

Vertex

Arbitrum perp and spot orderbook DEX with off-chain matching and on-chain settlement. Migrating to Ink Foundation.

Side by side measurements

Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked

Trading

Lighter

Leads

$1.55B

p99: $1.91B
rank: #3
samples: 5,757

Vertex

Trails

$68.05M

p99: $146.13M
rank: #8
samples: 5,757

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.