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Counterparty markets

Where counterparty trade: 10 venues, from blockspace.markets' directory.

Venues where Counterparty assets trade, Counters among them. 10 venues in blockspace.markets' directory, 9 of them live, as of 2026-10-21. Listed by name; nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation. Every fact gives its source and date; a source marked third-party is not the venue's own; "not found" means the directory found no source for it. Dead venues stay listed with the date they were checked.

The directory, with the same rows: blockspace.markets/markets/.

Counterparty AMM pools (protocol) #

Type
amm
Settlement
on-chain-protocol
Custody
non-custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
0.50% (50 bps) for XCP pairs; 1.00% (100 bps) for non-XCP pairs, to liquidity providers · docs.counterparty.io/docs/advanced/specifications/amm-pools, 2026-10-21
API
open · docs
Volume
not found
On the buy board
not read: pools reject BTC pairs; prices are in XCP

Constant-product pools, asset to asset only, active since block 952,800 (Counterparty Core 11.1.0). 45 pools on 2026-10-21.

Sources:

Counterparty DEX (protocol order book) #

Type
order-book
Settlement
on-chain-protocol
Custody
non-custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
not found
API
open · docs
Volume
not found
On the buy board
read

On-chain limit orders between any two assets; BTC legs settle with a BTCpay message. No official front-end (XCP DEX and Freewallet are front-ends); 2,657 open orders on 2026-10-21, most asset to XCP.

Sources:

Counterparty dispensers (protocol) #

Type
dispenser
Settlement
on-chain-protocol
Custody
non-custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
not found
API
open · docs
Volume
not found
On the buy board
read

On-chain vending: send BTC to the dispenser address and the protocol sends the asset. 26,207 open dispensers on 2026-10-21; no protocol trading fee found.

Sources:

counters.fun #

Type
amm
Settlement
on-chain-protocol
Custody
non-custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
Counterparty has a native AMM — constant product, 50 basis points on an XCP pair · counters.fun/docs, 2026-10-21
API
none
Volume
not found
On the buy board
not read: pools reject BTC pairs; prices are in XCP

A front-end over Counterparty AMM pools of Counters against XCP, with a mint flow. No site fee is stated.

Sources:

DIGIRARE #

Type
other
Settlement
on-chain-protocol
Custody
non-custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
not found
API
none
Volume
0.003253 BTC, 7 days · digirare.com, 2026-10-21
On the buy board
not read: not read yet

A Counterparty marketplace aggregating listings, offers and sales per collection; that listings map to protocol dispensers and orders, and its settlement and custody, are not verified.

Sources:

Emblem Vault #

Type
otc
Settlement
off-chain
Custody
custodial
Status
unknown, checked 2026-10-21
Fees
not found
API
none
Volume
not found
On the buy board
not read: no listing book

Counterparty assets are vaulted and the vault trades as an ERC-721 on Ethereum markets (third-party). No activity evidence was found on the venue's own page.

Sources:

Horizon Market #

Type
order-book
Settlement
psbt
Custody
non-custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
A platform fee is charged on-chain when a listing is opened, waived with a subscription or free credits; amount returned per quote, no fixed rate published · horizon.market/openapi.yaml, 2026-10-21
API
open · docs
Volume
not found
On the buy board
read

Fixed-price atomic swaps of UTXO-attached assets; 59 Counterparty listings on 2026-10-21. Issuer royalties can apply.

Sources:

Scarce City #

Type
auction
Settlement
custodial
Custody
custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
Digital-only items: 10% of final sale price (physical items 15%) · scarce.city/faqs, 2026-10-21
API
none
Volume
not found
On the buy board
not read: no listing book

Auctions only, with seller escrow; buyers pay by Lightning, on-chain bitcoin, or card via PayPal (3.69% processing fee).

Sources:

XCP DEX #

Type
order-book
Settlement
on-chain-protocol
Custody
non-custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
not found
API
none
Volume
not found
On the buy board
not read: a front-end over the protocol order book and dispensers

A front-end over the Counterparty DEX, dispensers and pools. Fees not found; that trades are wallet-signed is not verified.

Sources:

xcp.fun (XCP-69 launchpad) #

Type
launchpad
Settlement
on-chain-protocol
Custody
non-custodial
Status
live, checked 2026-10-21 (evidence)
Fees
No platform, no creator fees · xcp.fun/faq, 2026-10-21
API
none
Volume
not found
On the buy board
not read: no listing book

Fair launches that seed a locked AMM pool at sell-out; mints are paid in XCP and BTC covers miner fees.

Sources:

Sources #

  1. blockspace.markets' directory of venues (markets.json, re-checked weekly) · blockspace.markets/data/markets.json
  2. blockspace.markets: the markets directory · blockspace.markets/markets/

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