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Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 04:00 UTC0.0000%/8h= 0.0% APRnext payment +$0.00 per $10,000 · paid last 24h 0.000%

Price spread now: Bitget against Aster+0.267%7-day average — · you sell dearer than you buy

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

Long on Aster Short on Bitget

What this pair did over the last

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Funding, last 5 days (all we have)—no history yet

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

Together, before fees—+ Points / potential airdropAster: Stage 5 · farm boardneeds both histories

Funding between these two exchanges is close to zero, so right now this pair is about the price spread alone: Bitget is 0.267% dearer against Aster than usual: you sell high and buy low, +$27 on $10k if it goes back to zero (this spread has no 7-day history yet).

Leg	Exchange	Price	Funding /8h	Each payment	Next in	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Long	Aster MERLUSDT	0.02740	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	3h 46m	$3K	$427	5x
Short	Bitget MERLUSDT	0.02747	0.0100	get 0.0050% / 4h	3h 46m	$1.6M	$260K	25x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

Bitget against Aster. Falling: the short leg gains. Rising: it loses.

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Profit calculator

Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee AsterbpFee BitgetbpOrdersPrice spread, now +0.267%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: +0.267% → 0.000%: $26.66
Slippage, 4 orders: no order book: not counted
Fee Aster: 4 bp × 2 orders: −$8
Fee Bitget: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Net: $6.66
Costs to cover: 0.200%
Break-even: from the start

Slippage unknown: Aster: no order-book sample; Bitget: live order book, just now. 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 Aster no order-book sample	—	—	—	—	—
Sell Bitget live order book, just now	3.64 bp	30.1 bp −$30	185.6 bp −$1,856	doesn't fit	doesn't fit

Aster: 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.

MERL on 16 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
Coinbase International MERL-PERP-INTX	−0.0152%	1h	0.02740	−0.004%	$27K	$511K	50x	as long as short
Gate MERL_USDT	−0.0032%	8h	0.02739	−0.025%	$253K	$65K	25x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0050%	4h	0.02744	+0.157%	$120K	$3K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0098%	4h	0.02740	+0.011%	$14K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02743	+0.106%	$438K	$132K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDTlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.02740	long leg	$3K	$427	5x
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02741	+0.052%	$1.8M	$2.1M	50x	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02732	−0.281%	$1.2M	$437K	25x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.02737	−0.098%	$1.2M	$2.5M	20x	as long as short
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02741	+0.048%	$14.4M	$114K	100x	as long as short

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
KuCoin MERLUSDTM	+0.0100%	4h	0.02742	+0.084%	$884K	$63K	30x	as long as short
Bitget MERLUSDTshort	+0.0100%	4h	0.02747	+0.267%	$1.6M	$260K	25x
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02739	−0.025%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02734	−0.223%	$9K	$188	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02735	−0.171%	$1K	$1.0M	20x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	+0.2379%	1h	0.02746	+0.226%	$49K	$61K	10x	as long as short