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Alert: funding

Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 23:00 UTC+0.0100%/8h= +10.9% APRpaid last 24h −0.026%

Price spread now: Bitget against Deribit+0.191%7-day average — · you sell dearer than you buy

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

Long on Deribit Short on Bitget

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—needs both histories

Both sides work for this trade now. Funding pays +$3 a day on $10k at the current rate, and Bitget is 0.191% dearer against Deribit than usual: you sell high and buy low: +$19 more if the spread 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	Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	0.02717	0	get 0.0000% / 1h	19m 42s	$47K	$63K	10x
Short	Bitget MERLUSDT	0.02722	0.0100	get 0.0050% / 4h	1h 19m	$1.6M	$289K	25x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

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

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Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee DeribitbpFee BitgetbpOrdersPrice spread, now +0.191%Rate

Funding earned: $21
Price spread: +0.191% → 0.000%: $19.14
Slippage, 4 orders: no order book: not counted
Fee Deribit: 3.5 bp × 2 orders: −$7
Fee Bitget: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Net: $21.14
Costs to cover: 0.190%
Break-even: from the start

Slippage unknown: Deribit: no order-book sample; Bitget: live order book, 2 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 Deribit no order-book sample	—	—	—	—	—
Sell Bitget live order book, 2 min ago	7.34 bp	42.0 bp −$42	164.7 bp −$1,647	doesn't fit	doesn't fit

Deribit: 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	−0.0128%	1h	0.02708	−0.309%	$26K	$505K	50x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUALlong	0.0000%	1h	0.02717	long leg	$47K	$63K	10x
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0049%	4h	0.02722	+0.191%	$120K	$3K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0097%	4h	0.02716	−0.029%	$13K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02720	+0.121%	$436K	$134K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02718	+0.052%	$3K	$427	5x	as long as short
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02717	+0.010%	$1.8M	$2.1M	50x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.02712	−0.177%	$1.2M	$2.5M	20x	as long as short
Gate MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02720	+0.118%	$251K	$66K	25x	as long as short
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02718	+0.044%	$14.3M	$112K	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	0.02718	+0.044%	$876K	$65K	30x	as long as short
Bitget MERLUSDTshort	+0.0100%	4h	0.02722	+0.191%	$1.6M	$289K	25x
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02709	−0.300%	$9K	$163	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02714	−0.103%	$2K	$998K	20x	as long as short
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0650%	4h	0.02716	−0.029%	—	$6.7M	—	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0715%	8h	0.02706	−0.398%	$1.2M	$470K	25x	as long as short