How Often Is the Funding Rate Typically Calculated and Exchanged?
The funding rate is typically calculated every minute by most major cryptocurrency exchanges, but the actual exchange of the payment between traders usually occurs every eight hours. This frequency can vary, but the 8-hour interval is a common standard in the industry for perpetual futures.
Glossar
Funding Rate Exchange
Mechanism ⎊ Funding rate exchanges represent a periodic payment, either to longs or shorts, within perpetual futures contracts, designed to anchor the contract price to the underlying spot market.
Funding Rate
Cost ⎊ The Funding Rate is the periodic payment exchanged between long and short positions in perpetual futures contracts, designed to anchor the contract price to the underlying spot index price.
Time Zone
Operation ⎊ Time zone refers to the geographical and temporal context of market operations, influencing liquidity and trading activity throughout the day.