APT funding: questions and answers
What is the APT funding rate on Lighter now?
-0.0017% per hour, or -14.9% APR: shorts pay longs; funding on Lighter is paid every hour.
How does APT funding on Lighter compare with Binance and Bybit?
Binance: -3.6% APR (paid every 8 h), Bybit: -5.0% APR. The difference between Lighter and Binance is -11.3% per year.
What has APT funding been on average?
On Lighter: -11.7% APR over 24 hours, 1.9% over 7 days and 7.0% over 30 days. Longs paid in 87% of the hours over the last 30 days.
What does high or negative APT 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.