Nov 2 – 8, 2026

• 118 perpetual futures markets listed over the week, 90 of them on stocks, led by MEXC, Bitget and HTX.
• Open interest fell 7.2% over the week across the 40 venues tracked throughout; adjusted for price moves, it fell an estimated 0.4%.
• MEXC's share of open interest fell 0.9 points like-for-like; it closed the week at 19.8% of the total.
• On-chain venues handled 16.8% of the week's $1.3T in perpetual futures volume.
• Micron added the most open interest, up 31.4% to $321.0M across 29 venues, while its price fell 25.8%.

Open interest

Volume

Largest by open interest

Largest markets by open interest

Market	Open interest	OI change	Price	Venues
Bitcoin BTC	$23.9B	-1.8%	-4.8%	37
Ethereum ETH	$11.1B	-8.5%	-7.1%	37
Solana SOL	$2.7B	-10.6%	-8.8%	37
Hyperliquid HYPE	$1.8B	-10.7%	-15.4%	36
Zcash ZEC	$1.4B	+9.4%	-2.2%	31
Gold XAU	$1.2B	-31.8%	+4.1%	28
XRP	$1.1B	-13.5%	-11.4%	35
Tether Gold XAUT	$628.4M	-14.0%	+4.0%	17
Dogecoin DOGE	$548.0M	-15.8%	-9.1%	32
Silver XAG	$542.2M	-13.1%	+4.0%	31

Biggest increases

Biggest open interest increases

Market	Open interest	OI change	Price	Venues
Zcash ZEC	$1.4B	+9.4%	-2.2%	31
Micron MU	$321.0M	+31.4%	-25.8%	29
JCT	$87.0M	+356.8%	+142.5%	7
Anthropic ANTHROPIC	$134.5M	+57.7%	-11.9%	20
Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares SOXL	$408.5M	+11.9%	-44.9%	21

Biggest decreases

Biggest open interest decreases

Market	Open interest	OI change	Price	Venues
Ethereum ETH	$11.1B	-8.5%	-7.1%	37
Gold XAU	$1.2B	-31.8%	+4.1%	28
Bitcoin BTC	$23.9B	-1.8%	-4.8%	37
Solana SOL	$2.7B	-10.6%	-8.8%	37
Hyperliquid HYPE	$1.8B	-10.7%	-15.4%	36

Biggest price moves

Biggest price moves

Market	Open interest	OI change	Price	Venues
JCT	$87.0M	+356.8%	+142.5%	7
ONE	$13.7M	+63.1%	+49.2%	10
Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares SOXS	$43.3M	+25.7%	+47.5%	13
CAP	$13.6M	+81.0%	+41.2%	11
PIEVERSE	$27.0M	+55.3%	+37.7%	10
Tradr 2X Long SNDK Daily ETF SNXX	$26.6M	-4.8%	-55.6%	13
MUU	$11.4M	+10.7%	-47.8%	7
Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares SOXL	$408.5M	+11.9%	-44.9%	21
AKE	$24.8M	+18.6%	-39.4%	11
Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3X ETF KORU	$57.5M	-24.7%	-38.9%	16

Period

Weeks run Monday 00:00 to Monday 00:00 UTC; months run the calendar month. A period's figures are final once it closes.

Open interest

One side of every open contract, summed across venues at the close. On pool-based venues, traders' longs plus shorts.

Volume

Each venue's reported trading volume over the period.

Like-for-like

Changes compare the same venues and markets at both ends of the period, so a venue added during it never reads as growth. A period still in progress compares daily averages.

Funding

Hourly funding rates weighted by open interest, averaged over the period and annualized, for markets with $50M or more in open interest.

Listings

Markets first listed during the period.

Centralized and on-chain

Centralized: Binance, Bitfinex, Bitget, Bybit, Deribit, Gate, HTX, Kraken Futures, KuCoin, MEXC, OKX, Phemex and WOO X. Every other venue is on-chain.

Not included

Open interest: Binance (no reading at the close); Vest Markets (no reading at the close); Bybit (not published by the venue). Volume: Aevo (incomplete for the period); gTrade (not published by the venue); Kalshi (incomplete for the period); Ostium (not published by the venue); Polymarket Perps (not published by the venue); Veranta (not published by the venue).

Cite as: OptimistFi, Perps Week in Numbers, Nov 2 – 8, 2026, optimistfi.com/perps/week/2026-W45. Figures for a closed week are final. Download every venue's figures as CSV.

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