The average funding rate (in %) set by exchanges for perpetual futures contracts. When the rate is positive, long positions periodically pay short positions. Conversely, when the rate is negative, short positions periodically pay long positions. For a list of all supported exchanges and earliest available datapoints, please refer to our futures data documentation.

Note: The mean Funding Rate across exchanges is an average of each exchange's Funding Rate weighted by the Open Interest of the corresponding exchange.