XAU

Alert: funding

Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 23:00 UTC+0.0030%/8h= +3.2% APRnext payment +$0.04 per $10,000 · paid last 24h +0.011%

Price spread now: Lighter against QFEX−0.028%7-day average −0.007% · you buy dearer than you sell

Net, funding: paid 7d − costs—under 7 days of funding history

Net, price: spread back to 7d avg − costs−$19as in the Price arb table

costs, in and out, $10k−$170.170% of the position

Long on QFEX Short on Lighter

What this pair did over the last

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Funding, last 3 days (all we have)+0.042%+$4 on $10k

Price spread, last 7 days+0.030%+$3 · spread now −0.028%, 7d avg −0.007%

Together, before fees+0.072%+ Points / potential airdropLighter: Season 3 · farm board+$7 on $10k · with fees, hour by hour

Funding pays, the price is against you. Lighter is 0.021% cheaper against QFEX than usual: you would sell low and buy high (spread −0.028% now, against its 7-day average of −0.007%). If the spread goes back, that is −$2 on $10k: about 2.3 days of funding at the current rate (+$1 a day).

Leg	Exchange	Price	Funding /8h	Each payment	Next in	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Long	QFEX GOLD-USD	4,352	0.0002	pay 0.0000% / 1h	48m 53s	$5.5M	$1.9M	20x
Short	Lighter XAU	4,350.8	0.0032	get 0.0004% / 1h	48m 53s	$20.8M	$43.3M	25x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

Lighter against QFEX. Falling: the short leg gains. Rising: it loses.

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Funding on every exchange

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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 QFEXbpFee LighterbpOrdersPrice spread, now −0.028%Rate

Funding earned: $6.23
Price spread: −0.028% → −0.007%: −$2.09
Slippage, 4 orders: −$6.96
Fee QFEX: 5 bp × 2 orders: −$10
Fee Lighter: 0 bp × 2 orders: $0
Net: −$12.82
Costs to cover: 0.170%
Break-even: 21.4 days

Slippage from QFEX: live order book, 5 min ago; Lighter: live order book, 5 min ago.

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 QFEX live order book, 5 min ago	2.76 bp	7.8 bp −$8	7.8 bp −$78	9.8 bp −$984	doesn't fit
Sell Lighter live order book, 5 min ago	0.44 bp	0.6 bp −$1	3.0 bp −$30	10.2 bp −$1,019	23.0 bp −$11.5K

XAU on 39 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
Kraken Futures PF_XAUUSD	−0.0175%	1h	4,350.2	−0.041%	$600K	$160K	25x	as long as short
tradeXYZ xyz:GOLD	−0.0074%	1h	4,348.2	−0.087%	$292.8M	$53.5M	25x	as long as short
Bluefin GOLD-PERP	−0.0047%	1h	4,346.6	−0.125%	$26K	$21K	20x	as long as short
Hotstuff GOLD-PERP	−0.0008%	1h	4,347.8	−0.097%	$33K	—	25x	as long as short
Aster XAUUSD1	0.0000%	4h	4,353.2	+0.027%	$71.3M	$238.6M	20x	as long as short
Binance XAUUSDT	0.0000%	4h	4,353.1	+0.025%	$410.0M	$2.09B	100x	as long as short
Bybit XAUUSDT	0.0000%	4h	4,353.4	+0.031%	$82.5M	$141.8M	150x	as long as short
RISEx XAU/USDC	0.0000%	1h	4,352.8	+0.017%	$3.4M	$12.6M	25x	as long as short
Gate XAU_USDT	0.0000%	4h	4,354	+0.045%	$271.3M	$406.7M	100x	as long as short
MEXC XAU_USDT	0.0000%	4h	4,353	+0.023%	$375.8M	$349.0M	1000x	as long as short

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Bitget XAUUSDT	0.0000%	4h	4,353.3	+0.031%	$67.3M	$110.7M	100x	as long as short
Variational Omni XAU	0.0000%	4h	4,351.3	−0.016%	$47.9M	$32.5M	—	as long as short
GRVT XAU_USDT_Perp	0.0000%	4h	4,352.5	+0.011%	$1.4M	$3.2M	25x	as long as short
Kalshi KXGOLDPERP	0.0000%	24h	4,350.8	−0.028%	$3.9M	$33.9M	15x	as long as short
SunX XAU-USDT	0.0000%	4h	4,356.7	+0.108%	$93K	$10.8M	20x	as long as short
gTrade (Gains Network) XAU/USD	L +0.0002% / S −0.0003%	1h	4,349.4	−0.060%	$267K	—	10x	as long as short
QFEX GOLD-USDlong	+0.0002%	1h	4,352	long leg	$5.5M	$1.9M	20x
edgeX XAUUSDC	+0.0014%	4h	4,346.6	−0.125%	$30.3M	$58.2M	50x	as long as short
HTX XAU-USDT	+0.0027%	4h	4,356.9	+0.113%	$2.8M	$3.8M	75x	as long as short
Lighter XAUshort	+0.0032%	1h	4,350.8	−0.028%	$20.8M	$43.3M	25x
Lighter RH XAU	+0.0032%	1h	4,352.5	+0.012%	$20.2M	$41.1M	25x	as long as short
Extended XAU-USD	+0.0032%	1h	4,349.4	−0.059%	$13.0M	$49.7M	25x	as long as short
Injective XAU/USDC PERP	+0.0033%	1h	4,350.4	−0.036%	$619	$54	52x	as long as short
StandX XAU-USD	+0.0040%	1h	4,350.9	−0.025%	$3.8M	$4.7M	40x	as long as short
Vest GC-PERP	+0.0046%	1h	4,386.8	+0.800%	—	$995K	25x	as long as short
Polymarket Perps GOLD-USD	+0.0050%	1h	4,351.4	−0.014%	$4.3M	$1.7M	20x	as long as short
Paradex XAU-USD-PERP	+0.0050%	8h	4,352.7	+0.015%	$19K	$6K	5x	as long as short
Ondo Perps XAU-USD.P	+0.0050%	1h	4,348.9	−0.072%	$14.5M	$55.3M	25x	as long as short
Aevo XAU-PERP	+0.0080%	1h	4,352.1	+0.002%	$161K	$87	10x	as long as short
Bullet GOLD-USD	+0.0081%	1h	4,352.7	+0.016%	$59K	$84K	10x	as long as short
Pacifica XAU	+0.0100%	1h	4,349.4	−0.060%	$1.4M	$1.3M	10x	as long as short
ApeX Omni XAUUSDT	+0.0100%	1h	4,347.4	−0.106%	$273K	$204K	50x	as long as short
Phoenix GOLD	+0.0109%	1h	4,348.1	−0.090%	$47K	$65K	25x	as long as short
Deribit GOLD_USDC-PERPETUAL	+0.0118%	1h	4,351.4	−0.014%	$221K	$853K	25x	as long as short
OKX XAU-USDT-SWAP	+0.0164%	8h	4,353.5	+0.034%	$158.5M	$268.9M	100x	as long as short
Coinbase International GOLD-PERP-INTX	+0.0208%	1h	4,350.3	−0.039%	$2.0M	$5.1M	25x	as long as short
BloFin XAU-USDT	+0.0240%	4h	4,352.7	+0.016%	$14.7M	$4.3M	100x	as long as short
Phemex XAUUSDT	+0.0325%	4h	4,354.1	+0.049%	$2.2M	$1.1M	100x	as long as short
GMX GOLD/USD [ETH-USDC]	L +0.0450% / S −0.0246%	1h	4,352.7	+0.016%	$251K	—	29x	as long as short