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DeFi perpetual volume hits $1T in the last 30 days, surges past August’s $762B

DeFi perpetual volume in the last 30 days reached an all-time high of $1.241 trillion on Friday after a surge in perpetual trading in October. On-chain data also showed that perps volume in the last 24 hours surpassed $45.75 ￰0￱ from DeFiLlama revealed that Lighter, Aster, and Hyperliquid led in perps trading volume this month, with the rest comprising smaller decentralized ￰1￱ saw more than $10 billion in perps volume in the last 24 hours, with Aster and Hyperliquid recording $9.78 billion and $8.5 billion, ￰2￱ surpass DEXs in perps trading volume Aster led in perps volume in the last 7 days, with $88.68 billion, while Lighter and Hyperliquid followed with $64 billion and $62 billion, respectively.

However, Hyperliquid recorded the most perps volume in the last 30 days, at above $316.383 billion, followed by Lighter’s $260 billion and Aster’s $178.27 ￰3￱ trading in October surpassed August’s $762 billion with a week to spare, as traders continue betting big on the crypto ￰4￱ from DeFiLlama also showed that open interest rose to $16.84 billion, with Hyperliquid recording $7.5 billion, followed by Aster with $3.34 billion, and Lighter with $1.58 ￰5￱ exchange perpetual trading volume over the years.

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