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Alert: funding

Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 04:00 UTC0.0000%/8h= 0.0% APRpaid last 24h 0.000%

Price spread now: Gate against Aster+0.022%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 Gate

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: Gate is 0.022% dearer against Aster than usual: you sell high and buy low, +$2 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	0.02759	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	1h 18m	$3K	$427	5x
Short	Gate MERL_USDT	0.02760	0.0100	get 0.0100% / 8h	5h 18m	$254K	$61K	25x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

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

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How often the price spread is this wide · share of time at each level, last 7D show

Profit calculator

Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee AsterbpFee GatebpOrdersPrice spread, now +0.022%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: +0.022% → 0.000%: $2.18
Slippage, 4 orders: no order book: not counted
Fee Aster: 4 bp × 2 orders: −$8
Fee Gate: 7.5 bp × 2 orders: −$15
Net: −$20.82
Costs to cover: 0.230%
Break-even: never at this rate

Slippage unknown: Aster: no order-book sample; Gate: live order book, 38 min ago. 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 Gate live order book, 38 min ago	7.29 bp	59.2 bp −$59	doesn't fit	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	−0.0272%	1h	0.02745	−0.540%	$26K	$501K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0100%	4h	0.02760	+0.022%	$14K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02760	+0.033%	$436K	$138K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDTlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.02759	long leg	$3K	$427	5x
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02761	+0.065%	$1.8M	$2.0M	50x	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02756	−0.123%	$1.2M	$416K	25x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.02760	+0.022%	$1.2M	$2.4M	20x	as long as short
Gate MERL_USDTshort	+0.0100%	8h	0.02760	+0.022%	$254K	$61K	25x
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02760	+0.022%	$14.5M	$119K	100x	as long as short
KuCoin MERLUSDTM	+0.0100%	4h	0.02760	+0.022%	$889K	$42K	30x	as long as short

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Bitget MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02763	+0.130%	$1.6M	$243K	25x	as long as short
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02758	−0.051%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02756	−0.105%	$9K	$188	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02758	−0.051%	$1K	$990K	20x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	+0.0112%	1h	0.02761	+0.044%	$49K	$59K	10x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0121%	4h	0.02764	+0.167%	$120K	$3K	50x	as long as short