# The desk behind the readout Updated: 24 September 2026 — Console View operations Console View is a scoreboard for crypto futures venues, kept by the Console View Editorial Team. It answers one question in three columns: what a round trip costs at the rate a new account pays, what is actually resting in the book when the order arrives, and what happens to the collateral if the venue stops. Eight venues are scored out of 16, and they finish in this order: Lighter, Extended, Aster, edgeX, Hyperliquid, EVEDEX, Paradex and dYdX. The six criteria behind that order were fixed on 22 September 2026, before any of the eight was scored against them. ## Three kinds of figure, and which is which No number on this site stands on its own authority. Each one belongs to a class, and the class is printed next to it. - Measured, not reported. Depth, spread and price impact are readings of a public book rather than figures a venue hands out. The public BTC perpetual book of every scored venue was opened at ten-minute intervals and the median of the size resting inside ten basis points of the mid was kept, both sides counted. One capture cycle stands behind every depth figure here, run from 20 September 2026 to 22 September 2026. That is between 109 and 252 readings per venue, and every readings table prints the count beside the row it belongs to. Added across the eight books scored here, the resting size came to $95.8 million. - Read in a document. Entry-tier fees, contract counts, leverage ladders and the notional each one holds to, settlement mechanics, sign-in rules, withdrawal routes, audit reports and bounty pages come from each venue's own documentation, trading terms and public interface, read on 18 September 2026 and printed with that date beside them. Where a summary page and a schedule disagree, the schedule goes in the table and the text says both existed. - Reported by the venue. Open interest and 24-hour turnover on this site are what each venue told CoinMarketCap, taken from its ranking on 22 September 2026 and adding to $12.2 billion across the eight. The date travels with them, no score touches them, and they are read as a claim about size rather than as depth. ## What the readout does not cover Nobody at this desk opened an account, placed an order, deposited money or asked a venue for a withdrawal. That leaves a class of question open on purpose, and the site does not guess at the answers: what a six-figure withdrawal takes in practice, where a liquidation dispute ends when the trader argues back, what the support desk does in the hour a chain stops. Four more limits are worth knowing before a table is read. Only the BTC perpetual was measured, so a thinner contract on the same venue will not fill the way the row suggests. Fees are the entry tier a new account pays, with no volume ladder, rebate or maker programme applied to them. Settlement and audit marks rest on documents, and a document describes intent rather than conduct. And the reading window is a little under forty-eight hours, not a month of them. Eight venues were read and then left out of the tables. Four take their price from an oracle and their fill from a pool or a vault, which leaves the heaviest criterion here with nothing to measure. One has been paused since an exploit on 1 April 2026, with its application and documentation now redirecting to a fork. One is a single shared book that several front ends sit on, which makes it infrastructure rather than somewhere a reader signs in. Two more run order books of their own and are quoted rather than scored in this edition: Aevo, whose own fee page says its published rates are still to be reduced, and ApeX Omni, which steps its margin a point every $100,000 of position value instead of publishing rungs. Their facts stay on file and are used where they belong. ## Who pays for the readout Placement on this site is paid for. Console View is not independent of the venues it lists, and no line on any page here suggests otherwise. What that money does not buy is a position in a table. Every order printed on this site comes out of the formula on [how we rate](/method) applied to figures that carry their source and their date, or out of the single column a page is built around — measured depth on the [bitcoin page](/best-bitcoin-futures-exchange), the taker rate on the [fee page](/crypto-futures-fee-sheet), and an outside vendor's standing mark, which this site reads but does not weight, on the [Skynet page](/best-crypto-futures-trading-platform), where our own security columns put a different venue first and say so. Each is named in the line above its table. No venue is boxed, badged, tinted or given a row in its own style, and no venue is written up without two weaknesses that its own terms or the public record will support, the venue heading a table included. ## What this address served before This domain had a life before this one, and it is not the life of this site. From 2017 to 2020 the address was the home page of a plugin for the WordPress publishing system that mined the cryptocurrency Monero in the browsers of a site's visitors; the plugin came in a free and a paid tier, and the page ran the miner on itself. The address was parked after that, then pointed a row of advertising subdomains at whoever arrived, and by 2025 it answered nothing at all. Console View has no affiliation with that plugin, with whoever wrote it, with the WordPress Foundation, with the Monero project or with any browser-mining service the plugin ever used, and speaks for none of them. None of them endorses this site. No name, mark, wording, artwork, menu or account from the old pages is reused on these, nothing that site published has been restored here, and no page on this domain is a statement by or about the people who ran it. No page here mines anything in a reader's browser, and browser mining is not a subject this site writes about. ## Corrections, and when a date moves Corrections go to readout@wp-monero-miner.com. The ones that work name the page, name the figure and point at somewhere a different value is published; a reading is easier to replace than to debate. A venue that disputes a reading is given the window, the snapshot count and the method behind the row, and the book is opened again rather than defended. When a figure changes, three copies of the date change with it: the one a reader sees under the heading, the one a machine reads in the page's structured data, and the one in the site map. They do not move apart, and none of them moves alone — a date here marks a reading, not an edit. What this desk will not print is a schedule for the next pass: a reading is owed a date, and a date it has not been given yet is a promise rather than a figure. Read the one on the page instead, and treat a book as unread since the day printed beside it. Console View operations, 24 September 2026. Corrections: readout@wp-monero-miner.com. Placement on this site is paid for; row order is not for sale. Each table is set by the published formula, or by the one column named in the line above it.