Which DEXs list USD/JPY on-chain?

As of August 23, 2026, USD/JPY trades as a perpetual on 11 DEXs: Hyperliquid (HIP-3), Ostium, Lighter, Extended, gTrade (Gains Network), Pacifica, Hibachi, Orderly Network, QFEX, Carbon, Vest Markets. Aggregate open interest is 18.4 $M and the largest market is Hyperliquid (HIP-3) with 88% of the total.

Which DEX has the most liquidity for USD/JPY?

Hyperliquid (HIP-3), with 16.3 $M in open interest (88% of the 18.4 $M aggregate). Open interest measures live margined positions, a harder signal than volume.

Which DEX has the lowest fees for USD/JPY?

Lighter (0.0 % taker). The trading fee is only part of a perpetual's cost: periodic funding can far exceed it in thin markets.

Is buying the USD/JPY perpetual the same as owning the asset?

No. A perpetual is a leveraged derivative: price exposure without ownership, periodic funding charges or payments, and liquidation risk. The ownership route depends on the asset: see the section above.

Can I trade USD/JPY on these DEXs from the US or Europe?

It depends on the DEX: most exclude the US and several exclude Canada or the UK; the EU is usually not excluded, but each platform sets it in its terms. Per-platform detail is in this page's restrictions list.

Where to buy USD/JPY on-chain? The 11 DEXs that list it

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Notice: a perpetual gives price exposure, not ownership: there are no shares, ounces or coupons behind it, and periodic funding can charge or pay you. Data as of August 23, 2026 from each DEX's public APIs; not investment advice. CleanSky receives no fees or referrals from any listed platform.

As of August 23, 2026, USD/JPY trades as a perpetual on 11 decentralized exchanges, across 13 markets and 18.4 $M in aggregate open interest. The largest is Hyperliquid (HIP-3), holding 88% of the total. This page summarizes where, with what liquidity, fees and restrictions; live data lives in the finder.

Which DEXs list USD/JPY and with how much liquidity?

DEX	Chain	Symbol	Open interest	24h vol.	Max lev.	Taker fee
Hyperliquid (HIP-3) xyz	Hyperliquid L1	`xyz:JPY`	16.3 $M	965 $k	50×	0.09 %
Ostium	Arbitrum	`USDJPY/JPY`	1 $M	—	10000×	—
Lighter	zkSync Era (ZK-rollup)	`USDJPY`	541 $k	20 $k	50×	0 %
Extended	Starknet	`USDJPY-USD`	338 $k	262 $k	25×	—
gTrade (Gains Network)	Arbitrum / Base / Polygon	`USD/JPY`	160 $k	—	100×	0.035 %
Pacifica	Solana	`USDJPY`	65 $k	64 $k	50×	0.04 %
Hibachi	Base (ZK, liquidacion USDT)	`JPY/USDT-P`	20 $k	69 $k	10×	0.045 %
Orderly Network	omnichain (Orderly L2)	`PERP_USDJPY_USDC`	5 $k	48 $k	50×	0.03 %
gTrade (Gains Network)	Arbitrum / Base / Polygon	`USD/JPY`	724 $	—	100×	0.035 %
gTrade (Gains Network)	Arbitrum / Base / Polygon	`USD/JPY`	0 $	—	100×	0.035 %
QFEX	CLOB off-chain (colateral USDC)	`USD-JPY`	0 $	—	50×	0.001 %
Carbon	Arbitrum	`USDJPY_CARBONRWA`	—	—	50×	—

Where is USD/JPY liquidity concentrated?

Open interest in USD/JPY is unevenly spread: Hyperliquid (HIP-3) concentrates 88% (16.3 $M). A dominant market means the reference price and your real exit depend on a single book; the smaller markets in the table exist, but moving through them costs more spread.

Which countries are excluded?

Each DEX declares its exclusions in its terms of use (verified on the date shown per venue):

Hyperliquid (HIP-3): trade[XYZ]: EE. UU., Canada, Reino Unido + sancionados; Paragon: EE. UU. + sancionados (2026-08-23)
Lighter: EE. UU., Canada, Reino Unido, China, Rusia, Ucrania, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Siria + sancionados (2026-08-23)
gTrade (Gains Network): EE. UU. y territorios (explicito, ToS 5.4) + cualquier pais donde sea ilegal o exija licencia + sancionados (OFAC/UE); el ToS no enumera mas paises (2026-08-23)
Pacifica: EE. UU., Cuba, Crimea (incl. Sebastopol), Iran, Afganistan, Siria, Corea del Norte (lista no exhaustiva; bloqueo por IP) (2026-08-23)
Hibachi: pendiente: hibachi.xyz/terms devuelve 403 a clientes no navegador; docs solo dicen Blocked Countries / Restricted Territory (2026-08-23)
Orderly Network: las aplica cada broker, no Orderly; la API publica no geobloquea (pendiente de verificar la lista de WOOFi Pro) (2026-08-23)
Vest Markets: pendiente (vestmarkets.com/terms es una SPA no legible sin navegador; las docs no publican lista) (2026-08-24 https://docs.vestmarkets.com/trading/fees-and-rates/fees.md (tabla de sesiones) y vest-api.md (base server-prod.hz.vestmarkets.com/v2, header xrestservermm, fee API 1 pb; sin endpoint de OI))

What about buying actual USD/JPY, not a perpetual?

There is no 'owning' a currency pair: the alternative to the perpetual is a regulated broker's spot market or that currency's stablecoins where they exist.

Where to see this data live?

This page is a snapshot as of August 23, 2026. The TradFi-on-DEX finder covers the 11 DEXs with open interest, volume and funding refreshed hourly, plus the full JSON index.

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