Analysis: Bitget Offers the Most Optimal Trading Costs for Over a Dozen Popular Assets Including Apple and QQQ, with a Weighted Spread of 0.0144%

According to a report titled "2026 Stock Derivatives Explosive Growth: Crypto Exchange Landscape and Key Trends" published by RootData, the stock derivatives sector has moved from "peripheral experimentation" into a phase of "explosive volume growth," with cumulative trading volume from January to August reaching approximately $1.75 trillion.

In terms of cumulative trading volume, the concentration effect among top players remains significant. Among the four exchanges, Binance leads with $853.58 billion and a 61.3% share; Bitget ranks second with $270.85 billion and a 19.5% share; OKX follows closely with $234.39 billion and a 16.8% share; Bybit ranks fourth with $33.41 billion and a 2.4% share.

In terms of liquidity, based on the ±2% weighted order book depth metric, Binance and Bitget together account for over 70% of stock derivatives order book liquidity. Among them, Binance's average daily order book depth is approximately $10.1 million, with Bitget following closely at $4.82 million, while OKX and Bybit stand at $3.87 million and $1.16 million, respectively.

In terms of trading costs, in a weighted spread comparison across more than a dozen recently representative popular assets, Bitget ranks first at 0.0144%, with Binance following closely at 0.0145%, placing the two essentially at the same level; OKX stands at 0.0154%, and Bybit at 0.0237%.