REAL ranking
Every exchange scored on Reserves, Execution, Activity and Liquidity, with how each pillar is built.
REAL ranking
Reserves · Execution · Activity · Liquidity
One score per exchange, built only on what we can measure or verify: reserves, execution from real fills, volume and open interest the venue's own order book could support, and the depth we observed. Volume alone is easy to inflate, so every pillar is something a venue cannot print. A low pillar means weak measurable evidence, not misconduct.
Tier | Sub-scores | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | 87 | 93 | 66 | 99 | 100 | ||
| A | 78 | 81 | 62 | 89 | 88 | ||
| A | 74 | 82 | 52 | 84 | 86 | ||
| A | 73 | 100 | 40 | 73 | 69 | ||
| A | 72 | 73 | 52 | 86 | 86 | ||
| A | 72 | 66 | 54 | 86 | 94 | ||
| B | 69 | 77 | 48 | 73 | 84 | ||
| B | 67 | 57 | 53 | 80 | 91 | ||
| B | 66 | 64 | 53 | 86 | 70 | ||
| B | 63 | 62 | 50 | 67 | 77 | ||
| B | 63 | 60 | 58 | 71 | 66 | ||
| B | 62 | 64 | 46 | 69 | 74 | ||
| B | 60 | 65 | 43 | 71 | 70 | ||
| B | 60 | 48 | 73 | 50 | 68 | ||
| B | 60 | 66 | 53 | 64 | 58 | ||
| B | 60 | 70 | 41 | 71 | 62 | ||
| B | 58 | 50 | n/a | 70 | 68 | ||
| B | 57 | 41 | 77 | 48 | 60 | ||
| B | 56 | 60 | 36 | 69 | 67 | ||
| B | 55 | 50 | 62 | 45 | 65 | ||
| C | 55 | 59 | 33 | 70 | 63 | ||
| C | 54 | 52 | 85 | 41 | 27 | ||
| C | 54 | 50 | n/a | 50 | 69 | ||
| C | 53 | 43 | 65 | 49 | 56 | ||
| C | 52 | 48 | 57 | 49 | 54 | ||
| C | 52 | 67 | 41 | 53 | 45 | ||
| C | 51 | 25 | 53 | 70 | 68 | ||
| C | 51 | 43 | 46 | 65 | 56 | ||
| C | 51 | 72 | 13 | 63 | 62 | ||
| C | 50 | 44 | 49 | 51 | 60 | ||
| C | 50 | 50 | n/a | 46 | 53 | ||
| C | 48 | 50 | 47 | 41 | 51 | ||
| C | 48 | 50 | 72 | 25 | 30 | ||
| C | 47 | 58 | 21 | 66 | 50 | ||
| C | 47 | 50 | n/a | 32 | 56 | ||
| C | 46 | 50 | n/a | 47 | 37 | ||
| C | 45 | 33 | 27 | 71 | 66 | ||
| C | 44 | 50 | 46 | 31 | 47 | ||
| C | 44 | 50 | 32 | 48 | 51 | ||
| C | 44 | 50 | 28 | 47 | 56 | ||
| C | 42 | 37 | 27 | 57 | 58 | ||
| C | 41 | 32 | 45 | 44 | 48 | ||
| C | 41 | 50 | n/a | 31 | 35 | ||
| D | 39 | 50 | n/a | 15 | 47 | ||
| D | 39 | 37 | 21 | 51 | 56 | ||
| D | 39 | 47 | n/a | 37 | 29 | ||
| D | 38 | 50 | 41 | 28 | 28 | ||
| D | 38 | 38 | 39 | 73 | 0 | ||
| D | 37 | 50 | n/a | 27 | 29 | ||
| D | 36 | 57 | n/a | 23 | 18 | ||
| D | 35 | 33 | n/a | 43 | 29 | ||
| D | 35 | 39 | 4 | 38 | 71 | ||
| D | 32 | 26 | 8 | 65 | 43 | ||
| D | 31 | 15 | 28 | 38 | 56 | ||
| D | 31 | 50 | 31 | 20 | 15 | ||
| D | 31 | 36 | n/a | 26 | 29 | ||
| D | 31 | 42 | 0 | 48 | 20 | ||
| D | 29 | 38 | n/a | 25 | 18 | ||
| D | 27 | 33 | n/a | 27 | 16 | ||
| D | 24 | 21 | 0 | 62 | n/a | ||
| D | 23 | 25 | n/a | 22 | 20 | ||
| D | 21 | 32 | 0 | 28 | 27 | ||
| D | 19 | 0 | n/a | 37 | 31 | ||
| D | 19 | 0 | 38 | 20 | 18 | ||
| D | 19 | 0 | n/a | 40 | 26 | ||
| D | 17 | 0 | n/a | 40 | 21 | ||
| D | 17 | 0 | n/a | 33 | 26 | ||
| D | 17 | 0 | 9 | 46 | 23 | ||
| D | 14 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 30 | ||
| D | 13 | 0 | n/a | 26 | 21 |
How the REAL score is built
REAL is a weighted mean of four pillars, each 0 to 100: Reserves, Execution, Activity and Liquidity. Size is log-scaled, so a venue a tenth the size of the leader still scores about 70. An input we cannot measure hands its weight to the ones we did and never counts as zero. CEX and DEX are ranked within their own type, and nothing self-reported that we cannot check enters the score.
Every pillar, check and threshold: Exchanges methodology.
Scores are recomputed after listings or material data changes, reviewed, then published. Every venue's pillar breakdown is on its profile. The ranking, its pillars and their weights are subject to change as coverage improves.