Beta stage perps DEX Pacifica posts near-record volumes, passing Jupiter and Drift Protocol

Solana’s Pacifica has grown aggressively, surpassing Jupiter and Drift Protocol in daily perp volumes while still in its beta ￰0￱ exchange is still limiting its deposits and withdrawals, though posting peak trading volumes. Solana’s new perpetual futures DEX, Pacifica, posted near-peak trading ￰1￱ DEX surpassed Jupiter and Drift Protocol in daily perp volumes, despite still being in the beta testing ￰2￱ surpassed Jupiter and Drift in terms of daily perp volumes, as traders rushed to test the new beta stage market and receive the first Pacifica points rewards. |) September 29, 2025 The Solana DEX still carries only $20M in reported value locked, due to the limited ￰3￱ peak volumes, however, suggest either automated trading or some form of wash ￰4￱ launched during a period of peak perp volume activity on Solana and almost all other ￰5￱ a whole, Solana carries over $832M in perp volumes, with $624M reported from ￰6￱ perp DEXs have almost negligible activity, with most other orders concentrated on Jupiter’s own perp platform, as well as Drift ￰7￱ points draw attention to an eventual airdrop As with other perp DEXs at the early stage, Pacifica is running a points ￰8￱ trading campaign awards 500K points each week and is based on ￰9￱ date, Pacifica has awarded 2M ￰10￱ points are unofficially traded, carrying a price of $0.80.

The final valuation of the airdrop remains unknown and will depend on DEX activity and ￰11￱ the same time, Pacifica aims to expand its real value locked by growing individual allocations. Recently, the DEX raised deposit and withdrawal limits to $50,000. The DEX draws in USDC deposits, with over $20M to date from early ￰12￱ perpetual futures DEX has limited activity, with around 12K users by invitation. However, as KOLs take up the project, more new users are added at a faster pace, leading to new daily ￰13￱ has surpassed other perp DEX on Solana, as it launched during the peak of the ￰14￱ successful, the DEX may become the Solana answer to ￰15￱ current point farming campaign also invites aggressive trading, aiming for the biggest possible airdrop ￰16￱ overall airdrop is expected to reflect long-term organic ￰17￱ DEX is listing a series of altcoins, potentially tapping highly active ￰18￱ now, the DEX lags behind Hyperliquid’s ecosystem, but co-founder Constance Wang has suggested catching up with the Hyperliquid NFT ￰19￱ Difference Wire helps crypto brands break through and dominate headlines fast