what's edgex exchange?
edgeX Exchange is a high-performance, orderbook-based perpetual decentralized exchange (Perp DEX) that provides a native trading experience with top liquidity and innovation in the DeFi space. It focuses on perpetual futures trading, offering features like points programs, trading competitions, and new asset listings to engage users. The platform has seen significant volume growth and distributes rewards through campaigns and airdrop incentives. edgeX emphasizes user retention through product stickiness rather than just incentives, competing with other Perp DEXs like Hyperliquid and Aster. It is built on a foundation that supports seamless trading of various cryptocurrencies.
EdgeX Exchange gained 20.03% to rank #10, following MEXC listing and bug bounty launch.
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x.com/edgex_exchangeRanked #10 in CoinMarketCap's weekly top gainers list with a +20.03% price increase.
Listed on MEXC with an IEO performance of 2.16x (+116.2%).
Experienced an 8.16% price decline over a 24-hour period ending on April 8, 2026.
Launched a bug bounty program on Immunefi with rewards up to $10,000.
EDGE token price decreased by 11.47% over a 24-hour period ending on April 4, 2026.
Achieved a 49.61% price increase over the past week, ranking as the second-highest gainer on CoinMarketCap's weekly top gainers list.
Executed $1 million in token buybacks within 24 hours.
Anticipated future listings on Binance, Upbit, and Bithumb exchanges.
EDGEUSDT perpetual futures trading went live on OKX on April 1, 2026.
Listed on Backpack exchange with an EDGE-PERP trading pair, accompanied by a campaign targeting $1M in perpetual futures volume during the first week.
Listed as a futures trading pair on WOOFi Pro with up to 10x leverage, available on Solana and EVM chains.
Qualifies for GRVT's Veterans First Campaign, offering a $60,000 tiered reward pool until April 28, 2026. Eligible users have prior airdrops or points from edgeX Exchange, BasedOneX, and Backpack.
Conducted an airdrop with a total value of approximately $11,000 USD.
Recorded a 27.60% price gain over a 24-hour period ending on March 31, 2026, ranking as the second-largest gainer among tracked cryptocurrencies.
CCTP Express withdrawals are experiencing failures or getting stuck, with users unable to complete withdrawals.
Entered EDGEX-USD full-trading mode on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced with limit, market, and stop orders available March 31, 2026; EDGEX-PERP market entered halt mode on Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced, allowing limit orders but no matching for 1 minute.
Offers an 800,000 EDGE prize pool for depositors and traders on Bybit.
Listed on HTX exchange with deposits opened and trading starting soon as of March 31, 2026.
Achieved $83 million in trading volume.
Listed on Bybit Spot trading on March 31, 2026.
Listed as one of 15+ protocols covered in Perp Scan, a stock index perpetual DEX explorer tool that displays trading metrics across decentralized venues for stock tickers.
Pre-market trading at $0.56 with FDV outcome at $300M reaching 84% probability on Polymarket with $8.5M in trading volume.
Reached $2.28B daily volume and $775M open interest.
TVL grew from $28.5M to $437.8M between July and November 2025, a 1,329% increase.
Achieved monthly all-time high of $167.2B in volume in November 2025.
Transferred 50 million USDC from treasury to edgeX exchange, facilitated by market maker Amber Group, with receiving address holding approximately 75 million USDC.
Launched by team members formerly from Kraken exchange.
Runs points program converting to $INK tokens at TGE, reaching FDV of $666M on April 1, 2026. Valued 1 point at $12.5, distributed 17,000 points in airdrop.
Generated $16.17M in revenue over the past 30 days, ranking second among derivatives exchanges.
Ranked #1 among onchain perpetual DEXs for daily gold trading volume on March 19, 2026.
Mobile users account for 83.9% of traders and 65.7% of total trading volume.
$EDGE token listed on Binance pre-market trading.
24-hour trading volume for gold and silver products exceeded $650 million.
Launched USDC deposit program with Circle offering 10% APY with a $30M capacity on March 25, 2026.
Launched commodities trading end of January 2026, achieving $6.1B volume in first month, representing 7.4% of top-10 perpetual futures venues. Gold and silver comprised 89% of commodities volume.
Pre-market trading for $EDGE token is now available on IntentX with 2x leverage for long and short positions.
Added deposit support for $EDGE on Coinbase, Coinbase app, and Coinbase Exchange on March 17, 2026, with deposits pending until issuer unlocks transfers.
Reached $800 billion cumulative volume and 450,000 user accounts.
Reached open interest of $481.3M.
Ranked #6 overall by trading volume in the February 27, 2026 weekly perp DEX rankings.
Recorded $15.844B 7-day perpetuals trading volume ending March 12, 2026; $70.83B monthly volume, ranking third among perpetual DEXs with 10% of total perpetuals trading volume.
Adopted Chainlink for canonical cross-chain infrastructure on EDGE blockchain, making EDGE a Cross-Chain Token (CCT).
Launched March 31, 2026, TGE April 1, 2026. Airdropped $195M tokens to >13,000 wallets, claims opened March 6, 2026. Real circulating supply estimated 15% of total (vs. reported 35%) due to insider/team allocations; partners/LPs received 14% ($94.6M), ~136M claimed by 25 wallets.
Listed on Alkimiya (protocol 42) as an FDV prediction market for 1 day after TGE.
Achieved $4.5 billion in perpetual volume in Q4 2025, representing a 174.5% increase quarter-over-quarter.
Generated $184M in revenue, ranking as 4th largest perp DEX by volume with 15% market share, and $155.8M in fees in Q4 2025, up 169.9% QoQ.
Reached 181,270 cumulative users in Q4 2025, representing an 8.2% increase quarter-over-quarter.
TVL sits at $180 million and open interest at $1 billion.
Processed $18B in liquidations with zero downtime and zero bad debt, handling $19B during the October 10, 2025 stress test.
Reached $1.17B in open interest, ranking third among perpetual futures exchanges as of April 9, 2026.
Launched testnet perpetuals decentralized exchange powered by Arbitrum technology.
Included in a community-created "Tier A" airdrop tier list for 2026 alongside other projects.
Integrated native USDC and Circle's CCTP on 2026-03-09, enabling cross-chain transfers to 20+ blockchains, 380 routes. Received investment from Circle Ventures; USDC redeemable 1:1 for USD.
Received investment from Circle Ventures on February 10, 2026, for derivatives infrastructure and to deploy native USDC on EDGE Chain.
Overtook Lighter in perpetual DEX trading volume rankings.
Listed perpetual futures contract on Orderly Network with up to 10x leverage, including XAUTUSD trading pair with up to 10x leverage and PAXGUSD trading pair with up to 5x leverage.
offers XMR perpetual funding rate of 10.9%, the lowest among comparable DEXs.
Ranked among top 6 perpetual futures exchanges, alongside Paradex and Extended, as a modular app-specific execution layer for low-slippage perpetuals with parallel transaction processing.
Uses 100% of revenue for token buybacks.
Launched official mobile app available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Included in a curated educational list of DeFi primitives for beginners under the perpetuals category alongside Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Ostium Labs.
Listed MARU as the first spot trading pair. Commodities trading rewards program active, distributing rewards in USDT and MARU tokens.
Overtakes Hyperliquid in 24-hour revenue based on DefiLlama data.
Platform displays 7.3x volume-to-open-interest ratio, flagged as extreme imbalance among perpetual DEXs potentially driven by farming rewards activity.
Enters DefiLlama's top-100 revenue dashboard as a new entrant, ranking #5 with $7.55M in 7-day revenue.
Generates $1.8M in 24-hour fees, ranking first across all blockchains alongside Hyperliquid, improving from third place on December 8.
Generated $1.4M in 24-hour fees, ranking third among protocols, following Hyperliquid and Tron.
Generates $12M in fees over the past 7 days, ranking among the top perpetual DEX platforms by revenue.
Launched EDGE Chain V2 on Arbitrum stack chain, now live and tracked on L2BEAT, powered by EDGE Stack, enabling spot, perpetual, and prediction markets from StarkEx CLOB engine.
Scheduled V2 and $EDGE TGE March 31, 2026, with 1 billion total supply, 30% liquid at launch, adding mobile trading, spot markets, and stock perpetuals. Listed on WhalesMarket week of March 16, 2026; generated $52.4M fees from $137.9B volume with $500M TVL in October 2025; premarket trading valuation $700M.
Partnership with Polymarket integrates perpetual futures with event-driven prediction markets, enabling leveraged prediction trading on the platform.
Platform transitions from perpetual DEX to Layer 2 network infrastructure.
EdgeX and Apex flipped Hyperliquid as Hyperliquid's volume share declined from 66% to 18% after scaling operations in 2026, alongside Lighter, Aster, and Paradex.
Platform generates $10.55M in 7-day revenue, ranking 4th among top DeFi protocols including USDT, USDC, and HYPE.
Backed by Amber Group, holds $192M treasury with $100M for buybacks, established $250M buyback fund, 1 Billion total supply, 25% genesis unlocked at listing, and team tokens locked until 2027.
Partnered with Pastel offering VIP1 upgrades and 10% trading point bonus. Launched $MARU meme token; TGE and Airdrop scheduled for Q4 2025, reports $6.62B daily volume.
Ranked second among perpetual DEXs by 24-hour fees, following Hyperliquid's $1.4M.
Platform achieves Top 10 ranking by 24-hour fees among all chains, outperforming mature general-purpose networks in fee generation.
Japan Community Meetup takes place this week, hosted by the community in partnership with kudasai_japan and CryptoHiroba.
EdgeX approaches traders to participate in "InfoFi" campaigns as part of marketing efforts.
Platform secures third position in 3-month net inflows rankings, trailing only Arbitrum ($1.6B) and Starknet ($540M), ahead of WorldChain and Ink.
Ends points program in 2 weeks; TGE expected before year-end or January. Polymarket shows 59% probability of $2B+ FDV at launch. Records $170B in 30-day perpetual volume, $706M open interest, and $570M annualized revenue.
Platform combines perpetual futures trading with Polymarket-powered prediction markets in a single trading application.
Reaches 157K+ wallets, 50K daily active users, and 14,658 daily active mobile traders averaging $112K volume per trader and 9.5 trades per day. Generates $2.3M in fees in last 24 hours (vs Hyperliquid's $2.9M), expands globally into English, Korean, Japanese, and soon Spanish regions with Amber Group backing.
EdgeX volumes described as artificial with next to no retail flow, with trading activity concentrated across a few accounts according to market commentary.
TVL climbs to nearly $500M from under $15M in April, and platform displays deeper BTC liquidity near mid-price than Hyperliquid on some bands according to Artemis data.
Generates $12.92M in 7-day revenue, ranking #5 among all crypto protocols including major stablecoins and exchanges, positioned between Aster DEX at $12.5M and Hyperliquid at $23.03M.
Operates perpetuals DEX with 295,000 users, $5B daily volume, $1B open interest, maintaining uptime during October 10, 2026 market crash and keeping eLP liquidity pool profitable. Farming ends in 3 weeks; meme coin coming.
Records $138B in trading volume for October, ranking #4 among perpetual DEXs and part of the top 4 platforms that control 82% of the perpetual DEX market.
Backed by Amber Group and Circle. Points system and airdrop are incoming.
Edge X and Hyperliquid are neck and neck among top chains by fees in the past 24 hours, showing tight competition between the two platforms.
Records $38M in October protocol revenue and captures 40% of Hyperliquid's revenue despite being pre-TGE. Orderbook liquidity reaches 291 BTC at 3bps, 3x deeper than Hyperliquid's 125 BTC.
Ranks #1 among all chains by fees in the last 24H, ahead of Hyperliquid and Tron, as a top tokenless perpetual DEX with no VC backing.
Records $400M TVL in Q4 2025, a 33.2% QoQ increase, and beats Hyperliquid in liquidity metrics.
Records $5.8B in 24-hour perpetual DEX volume, ranking third behind Lighter ($10.7B) and Hyperliquid ($8.7B).
Upcoming modular V2 chain launch referenced as future development milestone.
Records $39.76B in 7-day perpetual trading volume, ranking #4 among leading perp DEXs behind Lighter ($73.77B), Aster ($72.03B), and Hyperliquid ($70.42B).
Records $367M in 3-month netflow, ranking #4 among top chains behind Arbitrum ($1.0B), Ethereum ($504M), and Starknet ($441M).
Records $38M in October revenue representing 3,900% growth since April, with annualized revenue ranking fourth behind only Hyperliquid, BNB, and Ethereum.
Achieves record monthly volumes in October as one of five leading perpetual DEXs (alongside Lighter, Aster, Pacifica, and ApeX) that pushed the sector to $1.2T in total volume.