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# ![Funding Rate Graphic](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/t:funding-rate.png) Funding Rate

Funding rate engagements are up, but concerns over negative funding rates are present amidst the market sell-off. Traders are discussing strategies and new protocols, but also the risks associated with negative funding rates.

### About Funding Rate
Analysis of funding rates in the cryptocurrency market, including related trading strategies and sentiment.  

### Insights [#](/topic/funding-rate/insights)
- funding rate engagements is up XXXXX% from the previous week.

### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/topic/funding-rate/interactions)
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![Engagements Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/t:funding-rate/c:line/m:interactions/iv:1d.svg)  
[Engagements 24-Hour Time-Series Raw Data](/topic/funding-rate/time-series/interactions.tsv)  
**Current Value**: XXXXXX  
**Daily Average**: XXXXXXX  
**1 Week**: XXXXXXX +45%  
**1 Month**: XXXXXXXXX -XX%  
**6 Months**: XXXXXXXXXX -XXXX%  
**1 Year**: XXXXXXXXXX -XX%  
**1-Year High**: XXXXXXX on 2025-08-06  
**1-Year Low**: XXX on 2025-10-20  

| Social Network | X      | News | Reddit | TikTok | YouTube |
| -------------- | -      | ---- | ------ | ------ | ------- |
| Engagements    | XXXXXX | X    | XX     | XXX    | XXX     |
  

  
  
### Mentions: XXX [#](/topic/funding-rate/posts_active)
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![Mentions Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/t:funding-rate/c:line/m:posts_active/iv:1d.svg)  
[Mentions 24-Hour Time-Series Raw Data](/topic/funding-rate/time-series/posts_active.tsv)  
**Current Value**: XXX  
**Daily Average**: XXX  
**1 Month**: XXX -XX%  
**6 Months**: XXXXXX +214%  
**1 Year**: XXXXXX +136%  
**1-Year High**: XXXXX on 2025-09-02  
**1-Year Low**: X on 2025-10-20  

| Social Network | X   | News | Reddit | TikTok | YouTube |
| -------------- | -   | ---- | ------ | ------ | ------- |
| Mentions       | XXX | X    | X      | X      | XX      |
  

  
  
### Creators: XXX [#](/topic/funding-rate/contributors_active)
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![Creators Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/t:funding-rate/c:line/m:contributors_active/iv:1d.svg)  
[Creators 24-Hour Time-Series Raw Data](/topic/funding-rate/time-series/contributors_active.tsv)  
XXX unique social accounts have posts mentioning Funding Rate in the last XX hours which is up XX% from XXX in the previous XX hours
**Daily Average**: XXX  
**1 Month**: XXX -XX%  
**6 Months**: XXXXX +34%  
**1 Year**: XXXXXX +70%  
**1-Year High**: XXX on 2025-09-02  
**1-Year Low**: X on 2025-10-20  

The most influential creators that mention Funding Rate in the last XX hours

| Creator                                      | Rank | Followers | Posts | Engagements |
| -------                                      | ---- | --------- | ----- | ----------- |
| [@ImCryptOpus](/creator/twitter/ImCryptOpus) | X    | XXXXXX    | X     | X           |

[View More](/list/creators/funding-rate/100)
  
  
### Sentiment: XX% [#](/topic/funding-rate/sentiment)
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![Sentiment Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/t:funding-rate/c:line/m:sentiment/iv:1d.svg)  
[Sentiment 24-Hour Time-Series Raw Data](/topic/funding-rate/time-series/sentiment.tsv)  
**Current Value**: XX%  
**Daily Average**: XX%  
**1 Week**: XX% -X%  
**1 Month**: XX% +10%  
**6 Months**: XX% -XX%  
**1 Year**: XX% -XX%  
**1-Year High**: XXX% on 2025-09-08  
**1-Year Low**: XX% on 2025-06-07  

**Most Supportive Themes**
- **Yield Farming and Funding Rate Arbitrage:** (45%) Enthusiasm for protocols like Multiplifi, Pendle, and Zirodelta, which offer yield through strategies like funding rate arbitrage and delta-neutral trading.
- **New Protocols and Strategies:** (30%) Positive sentiment around new protocols like Solstice Finance, Falcon Finance, and YUSD, which are building stablecoin yield strategies.
  
**Most Critical Themes**
- **Funding Rate Concerns:** (25%)  Discussions around negative funding rates on various assets and their implications for traders.
  
Network engagement breakdown:  
| Network | Positive | %   | Neutral | %   | Negative | %   |
| ------- | -------- | -   | ------- | -   | -------- | -   |
| X       | XXXXXX   | XX% | XXXXXX  | XX% | XXXXX    | XX% |
| News    | X        | X%  | X       | X%  | X        | X%  |
| Reddit  | X        | X%  | XX      | X%  | X        | X%  |
| TikTok  | XX       | X%  | XXX     | X%  | X        | X%  |
| YouTube | XXX      | X%  | XXX     | X%  | X        | X%  |
|         |          |     |         |     |          |     |
| Total   | XXXXXX   | XX% | XXXXXX  | XX% | XXXXX    | XX% |
  


**Top assets mentioned**
In the posts about Funding Rate in the last XX hours

[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin)
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/$btc)
[Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum)
[Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana)
[Solana (SOL)](/topic/$sol)
[Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/$eth)
[Cardano (ADA)](/topic/cardano)
[Cardano (ADA)](/topic/$ada)
[SPDR S&P XXX ETF Trust (SPY)](/topic/$spy)
[XRP (XRP)](/topic/xrp)

**Top topics mentioned**
In the posts about Funding Rate in the last XX hours

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### Top Social Posts [#](/topic/funding-rate/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

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"🔥 $ZORA Surges X% on Bithumb Listing. $RECALL Funding Rate Tanks on Bybit #ZORA s KRW listing on Bithumb with zero trading fees triggered a X% price jump boosting market activity. Meanwhile RECALL experienced a sharp negative funding rate on Bybit signaling bearish sentiment among futures traders despite the spot market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BTC_DailyAlpha/status/1980569770194808927) [@BTC_DailyAlpha](/creator/x/BTC_DailyAlpha) 2025-10-21T09:40Z XXX followers, XXX engagements


"🤤 Juicy Borrow Rate on BEND 🤤 If you want to leverage $BERA you can long it on CEXs with a positive funding rate of XXXXX% per X hours equivalent to XXXXX% APR (or XXXXX% APY when compounded). This rate is paid for shorts OI think of it as the borrow rate required just to maintain your leveraged position. Its essentially the sunk cost of *renting capital*. Meanwhile BEND currently offers one of the most attractive lending rates: around XXXX% APY for collateralizing $BERA or $wgBERA. Alternatively if you stake $BERA on Infrared and receive $iBERA you can borrow $HONEY at just XXXX% interest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Milk_Trudge/status/1980563498800456097) [@Milk_Trudge](/creator/x/Milk_Trudge) 2025-10-21T09:15Z 7204 followers, 2044 engagements


"Solstice is making pro level strategies feel simple One of the best examples is funding rate arbitrage. In crypto futures traders pay each other small fees to keep prices in line with the spot market. When those fees get high theres an opportunity to earn steady yield without betting on price. The move is simple in theory but hard to run at scale. You short the futures and hold the same asset on spot locking in the difference and collecting the funding payments. During strong market moves these yields can get huge sometimes above XX percent a year. @solsticefi automates the hard parts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/roadboy_brown/status/1980537178951233781) [@roadboy_brown](/creator/x/roadboy_brown) 2025-10-21T07:30Z 3653 followers, 2373 engagements


"Just read about market-neutral vaults and this feels like the next big leap for DeFi. For years only hedge funds could run those basis trades between spot and perps to earn stable yield. Now anyone with $XXX and a wallet can do it onchain through platforms like @solsticefi fully automated and transparent. This is real yield from funding rate spreads not token inflation. Vaults balance long and short positions so price direction doesnt matter. If this keeps growing DeFi might finally have its own version of a savings account: stable transparent and built on math not hype"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BitmanTW/status/1980533837471047958) [@BitmanTW](/creator/x/BitmanTW) 2025-10-21T07:17Z 45.1K followers, 1944 engagements