Liquidity: MEXC (Futures) leadsMEXC (Futures) 2 : 0
Open Interest at MEXC (Futures) is $12.59B versus $2.25B at Deribit. Also 24h volume: $11.40B at MEXC (Futures) versus $8.38B at Deribit.
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: more at MEXC (Futures)MEXC (Futures) 2 : 0
Perpetual markets: 1 298 at MEXC (Futures) versus 136 at Deribit. Also Supported networks: 15 at MEXC (Futures) versus 6 at Deribit.
Active trading pairs are counted from the instrument lists of the exchanges themselves where they publish them, coin counts come from CoinGecko, supported networks from the Kurslog catalog. More coins means a wider choice of altcoins; more pairs makes cross trading possible without an intermediate swap.
Reliability: Deribit leadsDeribit 2 : 0
30-day uptime: 99,7 % at Deribit versus 80,8 % at MEXC (Futures). Also Operating since: Operating since 2014 at Deribit versus Operating since 2020 at MEXC (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
MEXC (Futures) leads in 2 of 3 sections: trading and liquidity, assets. Deribit takes reliability.
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Open an accountDeribit 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.