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Crypto trading frontends top $1M monthly revenue as third-party perp share hits 20%

Twenty crypto trading frontends each booked at least $100,000 in revenue over the past 30 days, with six exceeding $1 million, as third-party frontends’ share of perpetual futures volume climbed from under 1% in early 2025 to about 20% by August. Phantom led the group at more than $7 million, followed by MetaMask at about $3.72 million and Trust Wallet at about $1.93 million, data through Oct. 21 shows.

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The migration of perpetual futures flow toward third-party frontends is the structural story here: wallets are becoming distribution channels for trading, not just custody tools, and the revenue concentration around Phantom, MetaMask and Trust Wallet shows brand reach converting into fee income. This shifts leverage toward interface owners and away from venues that historically captured the flow directly. Whether the frontend share keeps climbing past its current level, and whether revenue stays concentrated among a few wallets or broadens across the twenty named, is the open question worth tracking.

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