A Perpetual Decentralized Exchange (Perp DEX) is a blockchain-based, non-custodial trading platform that permits users to trade perpetual futures contracts. Here is a list of the Top 15 Perpetual Dexes that performed well in a weekly trading volume perspective.
Hyperliquid, a perpetual decentralized exchange, is leading all perpetual decentralized exchanges with 286.4M active addresses over the past 30 days and has successfully secured $4.991B of Total Volume Locked (TVL), with a $283.7B volume over the last 30 days.
TradeXYZ decentralized exchange is the runner-up in this race with $59.0B over the volume of the last 30D. The next one is Lighter Exchange, which shows very good growth in TVL, at approximately $504.4M, and has generated $55.4B in revenue by volume over the last month, with 116.5K active addresses. DefiLIama, the largest open-source and transparent analytics platform, has revealed this news through its official social media X account.
edgeX, Aster, and Grvt Show Strong Performance
edgeX decentralized exchange stands at the fourth position with 6.5K active addresses, along with the $76.6B revenue generated and TVL of $215.5M in April 3, 2026. Then comes Aster exchange with $74.5B in revenue generation and TVL of $844.5M. Aster also has 116.5K active addresses. In addition, the Grvt has 232 active addresses along with the revenue of $41.4B, and has a TVL of $73.6M.
ApeX Protocol and the StandX decentralized exchanges have attained revenue generation of $34.0B and $17.0B, respectively. Moreover, the GMTrade exchange holds a TVL of $16.6M with $8.7B in revenue generated. Avantis is at the 10th position in the given top perpetual Dexes, having successfully generated revenue of $6.96B and TVL of $67.5M. Additionally, Variational has earned revenue of $21.1B in the year 2026.
Pacifica and Ostium Show Strong Revenue Performance in Perpetual DEX Market
The Extended perpetual exchange earned the 12th position in the given list of the top perpetual Dexes that performed well in the year 2026 in three aspects, which are active addresses, TVL, and revenue. An extended decentralized exchange appears on the list with a TVL of $184.4M and is successfully able to generate $12.2B revenue. Furthermore, the Pacifica perpetual exchange was able to earn revenue of $11.4B with $31.8M in TVL during the year 2026.
The Ostium Perpetual decentralized exchange got 2nd last position in the given list with a TVL of $74.88M and easily generated revenue of $6.85B. The Reya is the perpetual decentralized exchange, and remains in the last position in the given list. Reya has gained the lowest value in generating revenue of $11.5B along with a TVL of $30.4M. These values are noticed at the time of writing this article.
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