Pacifica review
The most readable fee ladder of the series, on a Solana book with unified spot and collateral margin. Keep in mind that $10.4B of 30-day volume is real but modest next to the top three venues, and that the points program is the main growth engine.
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Perpetual futures are leveraged: a small move against you can liquidate your position. Only trade what you can afford to lose.
- Trading fees
- 0.040% taker · 0.015% makerFees come from your rolling 30-day volume: 0.040% taker and 0.015% maker up to $5M, then 0.038%/0.012% above $5M and 0.036%/0.009% above $10M. From $100M of volume the maker fee is 0% and the taker fee bottoms out at 0.028%. Sub-account volume counts toward the master account and fees are settled on each fill.
- New-user perk
- 5% bonus on the points you earnvia a referral link (not offered here yet)
- Max leverage
- up to 50×78 perp markets
- Identity check
- No KYC
- Custody
- Non-custodial, Solana wallet
- Settles on
- Solana · USDC
- Where it runs
- Web
- 30-day volume
- $10,418.0MDefiLlama protocol page, 28/09/2026. Normalized 24h volume ($249M) matches reported volume, so no wash-trading discount is applied. Weekly points distributions do reward activity, which the team acknowledges by stating that self-trading and sybil farming earn nothing.
Who it’s for
Pick it if
You trade on Solana and want published taker and maker fees without a points-first story.
Skip it if
You need deep liquidity on large clips, or leverage beyond 50x.
Strengths / Limits
Strengths
- $10.4B of perp volume over 30 days, with normalized and reported volumes equal.
- 78 perpetual instruments across crypto majors, altcoins, RWAs, FX and pre-IPO, all available with up to 50x leverage.
- Unified margin between spot collateral and perps, plus user-deployed vaults and a money market.
- Referral terms are explicit: 10% of the referee's points and a 5% bonus for the referee, from $10,000 of your own volume.
Limits
- Referral rewards are paid in points and fee shares whose rate is not published, not in a fixed percentage of fees.
- Leverage caps at 50x, below the 100x offered by most order book competitors.
- No mobile app is documented; trading goes through the GUI or the API.
What it offers
- Order bookYes
- Cross marginYes
- Spot tradingYes
- Vaults / copy vaultsYes
- Copy tradingNot documented
- Stocks, gold or forexYes
- Points programYes
- APIYes
- Mobile appNot documented
- Telegram botNot documented
“Not documented” means we found no official page, not that the feature is missing.
How to start safely
- Open the official app
Type app.pacifica.fi yourself or use a bookmark: phishing copies of perp exchanges are common.
- Deposit a small amount first
Send a test deposit of the collateral the exchange accepts, on the chain it documents, before moving more.
- Set leverage and a stop before the order
Pick isolated margin for a new trade, keep leverage low, and place the stop-loss with the order, not after.
- Watch funding and liquidation price
Funding is paid regularly while a position is open, and the liquidation price moves closer as leverage rises.
Security record
No incident found in our sources. That is not a guarantee.
Official domains: pacifica.fi
Sources
Checked on 27 Sept 2026. Facts change quickly: re-check prices and fees in the app.
Pacifica0.040% taker · 0.015% maker · app.pacifica.fi
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