Four perpetual venues, read from their own indexers rather than from an aggregator. On GMX every open position is counted, 3,795 of them across two chains and not a sample, so the leverage on this page is measured rather than estimated.
The exposure column is never added up. GMX, dYdX and Avantis publish open interest; Ostium’s figure is summed notional over a capped page of open trades and is a floor. Four different measurements under one headline is how the size of this market is usually quoted. It is not quoted that way here.
Cost of trading
Three costs, kept apart, because they answer different questions: a fee is charged for trading, funding is paid to whoever is on the other side, and borrowing is rent on the position. A venue quoting only the first is quoting a third of what it costs to be there.
Of 18,973 orders that set a limit price, 99.8% filled inside it, which is not news, because the venue enforces that. The informative figure is the room they had: 99 bps of margin against their own limit at the median. 9,560 more set no limit at all and are counted apart rather than scored as perfect.
| Dearest markets | Moved | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| PUMP/USD | $141.81 |
Real-world exposure held through these venues: what the capital is exposed to. Which venues we read at all: what we cover.
| 479.5 bps |
| XAUt0/USD | $241.41 | 222.5 bps |
| LDO/USD | $4.0k | 96.7 bps |
| XAUT.v2/USD | $274.0k | 79.9 bps |
| OKB/USD | $188.54 | 64.9 bps |
| ZORA/USD | $32.8k | 55.2 bps |
A window, not a lifetime: fee parameters change, and an average over all of history is a number about a period nobody chose. Price impact is what the venue charged rather than what we inferred from a mid price we do not hold.