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Funding Rate

Derivatives

Perpetual-swap funding rate. Positive = longs pay shorts (bullish crowding); negative = shorts pay longs. Extremes flag over-leveraged positioning.

Current Value

0.0001

As of

2026-10-16

Z-Score

—

Signal

No threshold

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Data points: 166 rows, 2026-05-04 to 2026-10-16Open in Lab →

Current Funding Rate reading

As of 2026-10-16, Bitcoin’s Funding Rate is 0.000, compared with 0.000 one year earlier (2026-05-04). The series has 166 daily readings from 2026-05-04 to 2026-10-16, computed from our own full-archive Bitcoin node and refreshed every day.

Historical extremes

The highest Funding Rate on record is 0.000 on 2026-08-22; the lowest is -0.000 on 2026-05-06. Readings near either end of that range have historically coincided with cycle turning points — use the chart above to see where today sits relative to past extremes.

Read it with

  • Open Interest — Total notional open interest in BTC derivatives (USD).
  • Annualized Basis — Annualized futures basis (premium of futures over spot).
  • BTC Price — Bitcoin price (USD)
  • MVRV — Market Value to Realized Value.
  • SOPR — Spent Output Profit Ratio.

Data & method

Source: computed from raw UTXO data on OnChainLab’s own Bitcoin node — no third-party data vendor. Category: Derivatives. Last updated 2026-10-16. The full series is free to download as JSON or as part of the full daily CSV, and the published dataset is cryptographically committed — you can verify it yourself. Browse all metrics.