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Funding you earn now, next payment 03:00 UTC+0.0142%/8h= +15.5% APRpaid last 24h +0.824%

Price spread now: Kraken Futures against KuCoin−0.689%7-day average — · you buy dearer than you sell

to open and closeno order booka leg has no order-book sample

Long on KuCoin Short on Kraken Futures

What this pair did over the last

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Funding, last 4 days (all we have)—no history yet

Price spread, last 7 days—no price history on both exchanges yet

Together, before fees—needs both histories

Funding pays, the price is against you. Kraken Futures is 0.689% cheaper against KuCoin than usual: you would sell low and buy high (spread −0.689% now, against zero (this spread has no 7-day history yet)). If the spread goes back, that is −$69 on $10k: about 16 days of funding at the current rate (+$4 a day).

Leg	Exchange	Price	Funding /8h	Each payment	Next in	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Long	KuCoin INITUSDTM	0.08259	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	1h 39m	$328K	$54K	25x
Short	Kraken Futures PF_INITUSD	0.08202	0.0242	get 0.0030% / 1h	39m 04s	$3K	$19K	10x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

Kraken Futures against KuCoin. Falling: the short leg gains. Rising: it loses.

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Profit calculator

Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee KuCoinbpFee Kraken FuturesbpOrdersPrice spread, now −0.689%Rate

Funding earned: $29.82
Price spread: −0.689% → 0.000%: −$68.86
Slippage, 4 orders: no order book: not counted
Fee KuCoin: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Fee Kraken Futures: 5 bp × 2 orders: −$10
Net: −$61.04
Costs to cover: 0.220%
Break-even: 21.3 days

Slippage unknown: KuCoin: live order book, 58 min ago; Kraken Futures: no order-book sample. Net counts fees only.

Cost to enter

taker fee + slippage from the mid, one side; closing costs about the same again

Leg	Half-spread	$10k	$100k	$1M	$5M
Buy KuCoin live order book, 58 min ago	22.25 bp	594.9 bp −$595	doesn't fit	doesn't fit	doesn't fit
Sell Kraken Futures no order-book sample	—	—	—	—	—

Kraken Futures: no order-book sample. Either the market is below $100k of open interest and volume (not sampled), or the venue executes at an oracle price and its slippage is not modeled here: see the venue's docs.

INIT on 13 venues

lowest funding first. Swap a leg: a good short leg pays more funding and is priced higher.

Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
BloFin INIT-USDT	+0.0081%	4h	0.08269	+0.121%	$152K	$112K	25x	as long as short
Hyperliquid INIT	+0.0100%	1h	0.08250	−0.104%	$300K	$229K	3x	as long as short
Aster INITUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.08264	+0.058%	$27K	$39K	5x	as long as short
Binance INITUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.08251	−0.092%	$3.4M	$3.7M	25x	as long as short
Bybit INITUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.08260	+0.012%	$1.4M	$1.5M	25x	as long as short
OKX INIT-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.08244	−0.182%	$136K	$665K	10x	as long as short
Gate INIT_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.08252	−0.085%	$84K	$56K	25x	as long as short
MEXC INIT_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.08254	−0.061%	$447K	$210K	20x	as long as short
KuCoin INITUSDTMlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.08259	long leg	$328K	$54K	25x
Bitget INITUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.08254	−0.061%	$428K	$312K	25x	as long as short

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
BingX INIT-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.08258	−0.012%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Variational Omni INIT	+0.0100%	4h	0.08255	−0.044%	$26K	$23K	—	as long as short
Kraken Futures PF_INITUSDshort	+0.0242%	1h	0.08202	−0.689%	$3K	$19K	10x