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perpetual funding rate
Coverage of perpetual funding rate in the Nexus archive.
- the perpetual funding rate is the cleanest opinion market in crypto
The article explains that perpetual funding rates in crypto futures reflect market opinions with skin in the game, where positive funding means longs pay shorts to anchor price to spot, and negative funding indicates shorts paying longs. It contrasts this with traditional finance's basis mechanism and questions whether funding rates can be traded as standalone alpha.