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Alert: funding

Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 08:00 UTC0.0000%/8h= 0.0% APRpaid last 24h −0.089%

Price spread now: Aster against Bybit+0.131%7-day average — · you sell dearer than you buy

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

Long on Bybit 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 0.131% dearer against Bybit than usual: you sell high and buy low, +$13 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	Bybit MERLUSDT	0.02769	0.0100	pay 0.0100% / 8h	2h 35m	$1.2M	$384K	25x
Short	Aster MERLUSDT	0.02773	0.0100	get 0.0050% / 4h	2h 35m	$3K	$263	5x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

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

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Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee BybitbpFee AsterbpOrdersPrice spread, now +0.131%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: +0.131% → 0.000%: $13.12
Slippage, 4 orders: no order book: not counted
Fee Bybit: 5.5 bp × 2 orders: −$11
Fee Aster: 4 bp × 2 orders: −$8
Net: −$5.88
Costs to cover: 0.190%
Break-even: never at this rate

Slippage unknown: Bybit: live order book, 6 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 Bybit live order book, 6 min ago	3.63 bp	130.3 bp −$130	doesn't fit	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	−0.0272%	1h	0.02744	−0.906%	$25K	$635K	50x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0045%	4h	0.02772	+0.108%	$122K	$3K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0099%	4h	0.02774	+0.181%	$14K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02774	+0.181%	$434K	$138K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDTshort	+0.0100%	4h	0.02773	+0.131%	$3K	$263	5x
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02774	+0.181%	$1.9M	$1.8M	50x	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDTlong	+0.0100%	8h	0.02769	long leg	$1.2M	$384K	25x
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.02771	+0.072%	$1.3M	$1.9M	20x	as long as short
Gate MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02770	+0.036%	$251K	$52K	25x	as long as short
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02776	+0.253%	$14.5M	$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 MERLUSDTM	+0.0100%	4h	0.02771	+0.072%	$887K	$39K	30x	as long as short
Bitget MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02775	+0.217%	$1.6M	$240K	25x	as long as short
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02773	+0.144%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02765	−0.142%	$9K	$240	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02776	+0.253%	$1K	$919K	20x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	+0.0579%	1h	0.02777	+0.271%	$52K	$43K	10x	as long as short