Liquidity: Deribit leadsDeribit 2 : 0
24h volume at Deribit is $8.38B versus $57.6M at Bitfinex (Futures). Also Open Interest: $2.25B at Deribit versus $869.8M at Bitfinex (Futures).
Volume, order book and open interest come from exchange APIs and aggregators and are averaged, so one lucky day decides nothing. For a purchase of a few hundred dollars the difference is invisible, but a large order fills at market depth: the more liquidity, the less is lost to slippage.
Assets: level1 : 1
Supported networks: 6 at Deribit versus 20 at Bitfinex (Futures). Both exchanges offer roughly the same choice.
Active trading pairs are counted from the instrument lists of the exchanges themselves where they publish them, coin counts come from CoinGecko. If you need a specific coin, check its availability on each venue separately.
Reliability: Deribit leadsDeribit 1 : 0
Operating since: Operating since 2014 at Deribit versus Operating since 2019 at Bitfinex (Futures).
Uptime is measured over 30 days of Kurslog monitoring with a check every 15 minutes, founding year and proof of reserves come from the catalog, trust score from CoinGecko. A one-year gap or 0.2% of uptime counts as a tie: that is not a difference that changes anything in practice.
Bottom line
Deribit leads in 2 of 3 sections: trading and liquidity, reliability. Bitfinex (Futures) does not win a single section.
Market metrics refresh automatically, so the score can shift over time. Choose by the sections that matter to you.
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Ahead on: 24h volume, open interest, perpetual markets.
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Better on: supported networks.
Open an accountBitfinex (Futures) review →Spread, order book depth and pair volume come straight from public exchange APIs every 10 minutes and are averaged over 7 days; USDT withdrawal fees come from exchange APIs every 6 hours; uptime from Kurslog monitoring; exchange volume, trust score and coin count from CoinGecko; fee tiers, languages and features are entered manually from official exchange pages. The winner of each metric is calculated, not editorially chosen. This is not investment advice.