Every venue we cover, compared over the last 7 days.
Perps War ranks the venues against each other over the last 7 days, using the same trade data that powers
the rest of Perp.ag.
Perps War: six venues over the last 7 days.
Metric
Meaning
Volume
Traded notional. Order-book venues count both sides of each trade, so compare like with like.
Traders
Wallets that traded in the window.
Open interest
Size of open positions.
Fees
Trading fees paid.
Fee / Vol
Fees as a share of volume: how expensive the venue is to trade.
Volume / OI
How hard open interest is being turned over.
New traders
Wallets trading on the venue for the first time.
Retained
Traders who came back.
Daily traders
Average wallets trading per day.
Median wallet
The typical trader’s size.
Top 10 share
How much of the volume the ten biggest wallets account for.
Share
The venue’s share of the total across all venues.
Callouts name the venue with the most volume, the most traders, the highest open interest and the
fastest volume growth.
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