HTX Futures or Bitfinex (Futures): which to choose in 2026

24h volume at HTX Futures is $1.29B versus $57.6M at Bitfinex (Futures). Also Open Interest: $2.50B at HTX Futures 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.

Perpetual markets: 393 at HTX Futures versus 73 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.

Operating since: Operating since 2018 at HTX Futures versus Operating since 2019 at Bitfinex (Futures). Both exchanges pass our monitoring without a meaningful gap.

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.

HTX Futures leads in 1 of 3 sections: trading and liquidity. 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.