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Funding you earn now, next payment 12:00 UTC0.0000%/8h= 0.0% APRnext payment +$0.00 per $10,000 · paid last 24h 0.000%

Price spread now: Aster against OKX−0.239%7-day average — · you buy dearer than you sell

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

Long on OKX Short on Aster

What this pair did over the last

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Funding, last 6 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: Aster is 0.239% cheaper against OKX than usual: you would sell low and buy high, −$24 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	OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	0.02875	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	3h 39m	$1.3M	$2.4M	20x
Short	Aster MERLUSDT	0.02868	0.0100	get 0.0050% / 4h	3h 39m	$4K	$5K	5x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

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

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Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee OKXbpFee AsterbpOrdersPrice spread, now −0.239%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: −0.239% → 0.000%: −$23.86
Slippage, 4 orders: no order book: not counted
Fee OKX: 5 bp × 2 orders: −$10
Fee Aster: 4 bp × 2 orders: −$8
Net: −$41.86
Costs to cover: 0.180%
Break-even: never at this rate

Slippage unknown: OKX: live order book, 3 min ago; Aster: 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 OKX live order book, 3 min ago	3.51 bp	34.8 bp −$35	270.4 bp −$2,704	doesn't fit	doesn't fit
Sell Aster no order-book sample	—	—	—	—	—

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	−0.0624%	1h	0.02822	−1.830%	$16K	$488K	50x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	−0.0480%	1h	0.02875	−0.014%	$57K	$66K	10x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0065%	4h	0.02864	−0.383%	$123K	$5K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0069%	4h	0.02871	−0.139%	$14K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02869	−0.209%	$476K	$155K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDTshort	+0.0100%	4h	0.02868	−0.239%	$4K	$5K	5x
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02872	−0.104%	$1.9M	$2.5M	50x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAPlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.02875	long leg	$1.3M	$2.4M	20x
Gate MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02871	−0.139%	$259K	$68K	25x	as long as short
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02871	−0.139%	$3.6M	$129K	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	0.02866	−0.313%	$902K	$43K	30x	as long as short
Bitget MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02871	−0.139%	$1.7M	$288K	25x	as long as short
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02854	−0.729%	$9K	$414	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02871	−0.139%	$1K	$1.2M	20x	as long as short
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0330%	4h	0.02864	−0.383%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0514%	8h	0.02868	−0.243%	$1.3M	$483K	25x	as long as short