Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized
TradingOkx
Trails1.14 bps
- p99
- 1.12 bps
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 2,874
Polymarket
Leads0.81 bps
- p99
- 3.00 bps
- rank
- #1
- samples
- 257
Okx vs Polymarket
Okx leads on 1 of 2 shared benchmarks, Polymarket on 1. Okx wins on Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked (0.0057% vs 0.0097%). Polymarket wins on Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized (0.81 bps vs 1.14 bps).
Okx
OKX is a major centralized exchange whose USDT-margined perpetual swaps settle funding on variable periods (typically 8 hours), with rates capped per instrument.
Polymarket
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.
Side by side measurements
Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked
TradingOkx
Leads0.0057 %
- p99
- 0.0092%
- rank
- #8
- samples
- 2,874
Polymarket
Trails0.0097 %
- p99
- 0%
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 257
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.