Funding Rates and Basis

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The concept A perpetual future has no expiry, so exchanges need a mechanism to keep its price tethered to the real spot price — otherwise the perp could drift arbitrarily far from reality. That mechanism is the funding rate: a periodic payment (commonly every 8 hours, though some exchanges fund hourly) exchanged directly between longs and shorts, not paid to……

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