Lighter vs Vest

Lighter leads on 2 of 3 shared benchmarks, Vest on 1. Lighter wins on Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked ($1.93B vs $235.99M), Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue (213 vs 88). Vest wins on Perp DEX asset breadth (75 vs 38).

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.

Side by side measurements

Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked

Trading

Lighter

No data in window

Vest

Trails

0.0047 %

p99
0.0014%
rank
samples
198
24h ETH funding stddev
Lightern/aVestn/a

Ranked only with 24 hours of funding history (288 samples) and a stddev above zero: a young listing, or a venue whose rate has not moved since listing (Ondo Perps at launch, Polymarket in July), reads artificially stable and shows as Provisional, never as the leader. Stability is not directionality: a persistently positive but tight band ranks above a rate that flips every settlement.

Rolling 24h · 24h ETH funding stddevRaw JSON

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

Trading

Lighter

Trails

38

p99
38
rank
#11
samples
2,880

Vest

Leads

75

p99
75
rank
#6
samples
198
Non-crypto markets
Lightern/aVestn/a

Market count reflects the Mobula perp pairs catalog at query time. Only mainnet markets are counted (testnets excluded). Asset class tags (forex, stocks, indices, commodities) are assigned by Mobula's editorial taxonomy and updated when new pairs are listed. Venues not in the Mobula catalog (Hyperliquid, GMX, dYdX, Ostium, Vertex, Paradex, Aster) are monitored separately: their catalogs are crypto-only or verified crypto-only by native API.

Rolling 24h · Non-crypto marketsRaw JSON

Frequently asked questions

Lighter vs Vest: which one is better?

Lighter and Vest are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Lighter leads on Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked. Vest leads on Perp DEX asset breadth. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which has the higher 24h perp volume, Lighter or Vest?

On the Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked benchmark, Lighter leads at $1.93B versus Vest at $235.99M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which has the higher non-crypto markets, Lighter or Vest?

On the Perp DEX asset breadth benchmark, Vest leads at 75 versus Lighter at 38. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Lighter vs Vest 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.