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Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 00:00 UTC0.0000%/8h= 0.0% APRpaid last 24h −0.001%

Price spread now: Variational Omni against Bitget−0.777%7-day average — · you buy dearer than you sell

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

Long on Bitget Short on Variational Omni

What this pair did over the last

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Funding, last 3 days (all we have)—no history yet

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

Together, before fees—+ Points / potential airdropVariational Omni: Active · farm boardneeds both histories

Funding between these two exchanges is close to zero, so right now this pair is about the price spread alone: Variational Omni is 0.777% cheaper against Bitget than usual: you would sell low and buy high, −$78 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	Bitget MERLUSDT	0.02750	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	9m 42s	$1.6M	$285K	25x
Short	Variational Omni MERL	0.02729	0.0100	get 0.0100% / 8h	9m 42s	$9K	$188	—

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Price spread between the two exchanges

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

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Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee BitgetbpFee Variational OmnibpOrdersPrice spread, now −0.777%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: −0.777% → 0.000%: −$77.7
Slippage, 4 orders: no order book: not counted
Fee Bitget: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Fee Variational Omni: 0 bp × 2 orders: $0
Net: −$89.7
Costs to cover: 0.120%
Break-even: never at this rate

Slippage unknown: Bitget: live order book, 2 min ago; Variational Omni: 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 Bitget live order book, 2 min ago	3.65 bp	32.2 bp −$32	230.5 bp −$2,305	doesn't fit	doesn't fit
Sell Variational Omni no order-book sample	—	—	—	—	—

Variational Omni: 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	−0.0136%	1h	0.02726	−0.869%	$26K	$508K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0099%	4h	0.02742	−0.291%	$14K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02748	−0.076%	$440K	$133K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02742	−0.285%	$3K	$427	5x	as long as short
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02745	−0.182%	$1.8M	$2.1M	50x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.02741	−0.327%	$1.3M	$2.5M	20x	as long as short
Gate MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02740	−0.364%	$253K	$66K	25x	as long as short
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02745	−0.182%	$14.4M	$117K	100x	as long as short
KuCoin MERLUSDTM	+0.0100%	4h	0.02746	−0.145%	$885K	$64K	30x	as long as short
Bitget MERLUSDTlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.02750	long leg	$1.6M	$285K	25x

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Variational Omni MERLshort	+0.0100%	8h	0.02729	−0.777%	$9K	$188	—
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02738	−0.436%	$1K	$1.0M	20x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0105%	4h	0.02734	−0.582%	$120K	$3K	50x	as long as short
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0610%	4h	0.02742	−0.291%	—	$6.7M	—	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	+0.0662%	1h	0.02744	−0.204%	$49K	$61K	10x	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0674%	8h	0.02734	−0.582%	$1.2M	$445K	25x	as long as short