Crypto futures, funding rates, and trading strategies.
Toobit rebates 55% of futures fees for an effective taker fee of 0.027%. Gate rebates 70% but pays on request — miss three claims a year and it drops to 52.5%, below Toobit. Ten-exchange effective fee comparison and the volume math.
Bybit used to stack a discount and a rebate. The discount is gone, which leaves the highest listed taker fee in the table fully exposed.
The Binance payback rate fell in the September revision, widening the gap to the cheapest venue. That gap is what deep order books cost you.
EdgeX has the cheapest listed taker fee in the table and no payback at all, which leaves it with one of the highest effective costs.
OKX and BingX carried the same payback rate until the September revision. Here is where the two separate, recalculated on current figures.
Bitget cuts the fee by 50% first, then pays back 50% of what is left. The two steps multiply: taker drops from 0.06% to 0.015% and maker to 0.005%, the lowest of the seven TetherBase exchanges.
Gate’s 70% payback takes the taker fee from 0.05% to 0.015%. Bitget pays back only 50% and lands on exactly the same number. Here is why, with all seven TetherBase exchanges compared on one yardstick.
TL;DR — Quick answer Bitcoin’s funding rate flipped negative in early August 2026. Short sellers are now paying longs to hold their positions. That alone doesn’t guarantee a bounce. Binance and Bybit calculate funding differently. The same market can show two different numbers on two different apps at the same moment. Quick answer Bitcoin’s funding…
TL;DR — Your stop-loss and your liquidation price are handled by two completely different systems. Liquidation is triggered by the mark price, not the last-traded price you’re watching. When markets whip fast enough, the mark price can jump straight past your stop and land on your liquidation price in the same tick. Quick answer: Your…
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