ADA funding: questions and answers
What is the ADA funding rate on Lighter now?
0.0012% per hour, or 10.5% APR: longs pay shorts; funding on Lighter is paid every hour.
How does ADA funding on Lighter compare with Binance and Bybit?
Binance: -0.4% APR (paid every 8 h), Bybit: 4.5% APR. The difference between Lighter and Binance is +10.9% per year.
What has ADA funding been on average?
On Lighter: -2.2% APR over 24 hours, -2.6% over 7 days and 0.8% over 30 days. Longs paid in 63% of the hours over the last 30 days.
What does high or negative ADA funding mean?
High funding means the market is crowded with longs: holding a long is expensive and a fall can trigger a long squeeze. Negative funding means crowded shorts. Check who exactly is positioned and where their liquidations are on the whale positions page and the liquidation map.