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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: KuCoin against Aster+0.163%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 KuCoin

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: KuCoin is 0.163% dearer against Aster than usual: you sell high and buy low, +$16 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	0.02752	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	24m 59s	$3K	$497	5x
Short	KuCoin MERLUSDTM	0.02756	0.0100	get 0.0050% / 4h	24m 59s	$885K	$41K	30x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

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

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Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee AsterbpFee KuCoinbpOrdersPrice spread, now +0.163%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: +0.163% → 0.000%: $16.33
Slippage, 4 orders: no order book: not counted
Fee Aster: 4 bp × 2 orders: −$8
Fee KuCoin: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Net: −$3.67
Costs to cover: 0.200%
Break-even: never at this rate

Slippage unknown: Aster: no order-book sample; KuCoin: live order book, 14 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 KuCoin live order book, 14 min ago	12.76 bp	183.0 bp −$183	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	−0.0232%	1h	0.02732	−0.698%	$29K	$503K	50x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0095%	4h	0.02751	−0.018%	$119K	$3K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0099%	4h	0.02754	+0.091%	$14K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02757	+0.211%	$433K	$134K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDTlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.02752	long leg	$3K	$497	5x
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02759	+0.266%	$1.8M	$2.0M	50x	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02750	−0.055%	$1.2M	$411K	25x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.02755	+0.127%	$1.2M	$2.3M	20x	as long as short
Gate MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02751	−0.018%	$252K	$60K	25x	as long as short
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02757	+0.200%	$14.4M	$119K	100x	as long as short

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
KuCoin MERLUSDTMshort	+0.0100%	4h	0.02756	+0.163%	$885K	$41K	30x
Bitget MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02761	+0.345%	$1.6M	$241K	25x	as long as short
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02753	+0.054%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02747	−0.164%	$9K	$168	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02756	+0.163%	$2K	$988K	20x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	+0.0113%	1h	0.02757	+0.200%	$49K	$55K	10x	as long as short