What BigONE is
BigONE has been running since 2017, making it one of the oldest venues in this comparison. Its team came out of the Yunbi exchange — deep history by the industry's standards.
By our measurements it carries around nine hundred spot pairs and a hundred perpetual contracts. Smaller than the giants, but the data is fully open: every pair arrives with not just the best prices but the size behind them, and every contract with its funding rate, accrual interval and mark price.
What is on offer
Spot — around nine hundred pairs, mostly against USDT.
Futures — a hundred perpetual contracts, each with its own rate.
Margin and leveraged tokens — borrowed-funds trading and ready-made leveraged instruments.
Staking — putting coins to work at a yield.
The ONE token — the venue's own token, discounting fees.
The thing to know: a thin top of book
This is not nitpicking — it decides whether a route works. The size at the best price on BigONE is often measured in hundreds of dollars even for bitcoin: at the time of writing the best bid held about 0.0014 BTC, roughly a hundred and ten dollars. A spread can look inviting on screen and still fill only for that much before the order walks into the book.
That is why we take sizes along with prices here, and why spot arbitrage has a «depth» button: it works out what your particular size would actually cost against the live book. On BigONE it is worth pressing every time.
How BigONE feeds our scanners
In full: spot arbitrage, futures arbitrage, funding, triangular routes and stablecoin monitoring. Sizes at the quote let us compute not only the spread but the ceiling it fills at.
Transfers are fully visible
The venue publishes its network directory openly and in full: for each of nearly eight hundred coins it lists the chains, and for each chain whether deposits are open, whether withdrawals are open and what a transfer costs. So routes through BigONE in cross-exchange arbitrage carry the same transfer badge as Binance or Bybit, and the withdrawal fee is subtracted from the net spread right away.
Who it suits
Anyone looking for routes beyond the top five venues and willing to check depth before entering, and anyone who needs perpetuals on coins the large exchanges have not listed.
