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Perpetual-futures DEXs ranked on security & track record and decentralization / trust-minimization — with model, chain, leverage and live TVL shown as facts, not scored.
category.prediction_markets.promise Reviewed on security & track record (years live, audit depth, any contract exploit that lost funds — weighed by severity and recency) and decentralization / trust-minimization (onchain vs offchain matching, self-custody of collateral, governance) — permanent facts, sourced and dated. The perp model (onchain orderbook / oracle-AMM / synthetic), chain, max leverage, market count and live TVL are shown for context, not scored — which model or chain is best is use-case-dependent, and TVL measures adoption, not the trust facts we rank on.
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Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.04.0
published 2026-04-27
Providers tracked
370+
across 35 categories
Last verified
2026-08-03
editorial freshness
Editorial board
4
audit-log live
Decision guide
What matters most before choosing in this category
The best prediction market depends on what you weight. Hyperliquid (its own L1) runs a fully onchain orderbook, while dYdX (its own Cosmos appchain) uses a validator-matched orderbook that settles onchain; GMX and Jupiter price trades from an oracle against a liquidity pool; Gains Network is synthetic against a vault. We rank on the two universal quality signals — security & track record and decentralization / trust-minimization (is matching onchain, is collateral self-custodial, who controls the contracts) — and show the model, chain, leverage and live TVL as context, because the best venue depends on which chain you trade on and how much you value trust-minimization vs liquidity.
Key question
Do you require fully onchain, verifiable matching (Hyperliquid), a validator-matched orderbook (dYdX), or is an oracle-priced pool (GMX, Jupiter) acceptable?
Key question
Which chain do you trade on — some prediction markets run their own chain (Hyperliquid, dYdX), others are on Arbitrum or Solana?
Key question
How much do you weight a longer exploit-free track record versus the newest, highest-liquidity venue?
Current editor lead
SX Bet
Longest-running onchain P2P sports exchange - genuinely zero fee on singles, but the cost is the spread
Data checked Aug 2026
The longest continuous operating history in this comparison - roughly seven years across two rebrands and a chain migration, with no exploit, extended outage or failed payout documented. That durability is the asset. Current activity is real rather than incentivised: $86.4M of 30-day volume and $902M cumulative, with live order books confirmed directly via the public API on 3 Aug 2026, placing it above Limitless. CORRECTION to a prior inference: SX Bet was NOT relegated to the April 2026 sector report's $12.2M 'others' bucket - at $86.4M of 30-day volume it could not fit inside that bucket, so it was simply… Concentration and opacity rather than solvency. Depth exists in mainstream sports lines and essentially nowhere else, so it is a specialist venue routinely miscast by listicles as a general prediction market - politics, macro and crypto markets are not meaningfully tradeable here. Because it is a pure peer-to-peer exchange with no fee, all execution cost is embedded in spread,…
Best for
Longest-running onchain P2P sports exchange - genuinely zero fee on singles,…
Main tradeoff
Concentration and opacity rather than solvency. Depth exists in mainstream sports lines and essentially nowhere else, so it is a specialist venue…
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Non-custodial and wallet-based on its own SX Rollup (chain ID 4162), USDC-collateralised, with gas subsidised by the platform. No KYC documented. Jurisdiction policy could not be established: every terms path on sx.bet returns the same client-rendered SPA shell rather than contract text, so a…
Weighted criteria
Resolution integrity32%
Regulatory access26%
Liquidity where you trade24%
Total trading cost18%
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Methodology
How this category is reviewed
Reviewed on security & track record (years live, audit depth, any contract exploit that lost funds — weighed by severity and recency) and decentralization / trust-minimization (onchain vs offchain matching, self-custody of collateral, governance) — permanent facts, sourced and dated. The perp model (onchain orderbook / oracle-AMM / synthetic), chain, max leverage, market count and live TVL are shown for context, not scored — which model or chain is best is use-case-dependent, and TVL measures adoption, not the trust facts we rank on.
Reviewed on: Resolution integrity, Regulatory access, Liquidity where you trade, Total trading cost.
This page is a maintained category surface, not a static marketing block. Review freshness, provider positioning, and recommendation logic should stay consistent with quiz and provider pages.
Frequently asked
Questions people ask before choosing prediction markets
What is the safest prediction market?
Safety on a prediction market comes from how long it has run without a contract exploit that lost user or LP funds, the depth of its audits, and how trust-minimized it is — whether matching and settlement are fully onchain (verifiable) or rely on an offchain engine you must trust, whether your collateral is self-custodial, and whether an admin can change the contracts. We score exactly those permanent facts, and record every contract exploit honestly (e.g. GMX's 2025 v1 exploit) while distinguishing them from market-manipulation or governance events.
Why is TVL (or volume) not in the ranking?
TVL, open interest and volume measure how much capital and activity a prediction market attracts — adoption, not safety or trust-minimization. A venue can be the largest by volume and still be young, thinly audited, or reliant on an offchain matching engine. So we show live TVL for context but rank on the permanent trust facts. Which trading model (onchain orderbook, oracle-AMM, synthetic) is best is also shown, not scored, because it depends on what and where you trade.
Are onchain perps really decentralized?
It varies, which is why we score it. The most trust-minimized venues settle and match fully onchain with self-custodial collateral (you always control withdrawal) and decentralized validators; others use an offchain matching engine for speed, or keep upgrade keys that could change the rules. We grade matching (onchain vs offchain), custody (self-custodial vs contract-custodied) and governance from permanent facts, and surface centralization events — like a validator or governance intervention — honestly rather than burying them.
Why isn't Hyperliquid ranked #1?
Hyperliquid leads the category on adoption and is the only fully onchain orderbook here, which is why it wins the decentralization axis — but security & track record is weighted 60%, and there Gains Network edges ahead: it has run since 2021 (vs 2023) with a longer exploit-free record and more extensive public audit coverage, while Hyperliquid is younger with lighter core-engine audits and the March-2025 JELLY governance intervention on its record. So Hyperliquid ranks a close #2. Our ranking is affiliate-blind and volume-blind — adoption is shown for context, never scored, so being the largest by volume never moves a provider up.
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