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.

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.

This is the Point-in-Time (PiT) variant of Futures Perpetual Funding Rate V2. PiT metrics are strictly append-only and their history is immutable. The historic data does not necessarily reflect the best current knowledge, but the information at the time when a data point was first computed. PiT metrics are ideal candidates for applications in model backtesting and related quantitative purposes. Read our article on PiT metrics for more information.