AMD funding: questions and answers
What is the AMD funding rate on Lighter now?
-0.0111% per hour, or -97.2% APR: shorts pay longs; funding on Lighter is paid every hour.
How does AMD funding on Lighter compare with Binance and Bybit?
Binance: 0.0% APR (paid every 8 h). The difference between Lighter and Binance is -97.2% per year.
What has AMD funding been on average?
On Lighter: -3.8% APR over 24 hours, 6.2% over 7 days and 6.4% over 30 days. Longs paid in 97% of the hours over the last 30 days.
What does high or negative AMD 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.