BINANCE BITCOIN FUNDING RATE
Which Side Is Paying to Hold on Binance?
The fee that keeps perpetual contracts on Binance tied to the spot price, and who is handing it over.
Funding rate on Binance
Funding rate, added up across the day's settlements. Positive means the people betting on a rise paid the people betting on a fall. Negative means the other way round.
Latest displayed reading: 0.000212 on Sep 8, 2026. This view shows 84 dated readings from Jun 17, 2026 to Sep 8, 2026. The latest displayed reading is higher than the first. The displayed low is -0.000042 on Jun 25, 2026. The displayed high is 0.000464 on Jun 29, 2026. Every day in this range has a reading.
Pick two to four dates and read this chart's values side by side.
What is Binance's funding rate today?
0.0212%What it costs to bet on a riseup 48.2% over the past 30 days As of Sep 8, 2026.3settlements that dayflat over the past 30 days As of Sep 8, 2026.
Understanding Binance Bitcoin Funding Rate
Where it stands today
On Binance, people betting on a rise paid 0.0212% a day to the people betting on a fall as of .
Binance settled funding 3 times that day as of .
A perpetual contract never expires, so something has to stop its price drifting away from the real one. That something is the funding rate: at fixed times through the day, one side pays the other. When the rate is positive the traders betting on a rise pay the traders betting on a fall, which is the market saying that betting up is the crowded side. When it is negative the payment runs the other way.
The number here is the whole day added up, not a single settlement, because Binance charges the fee more than once a day. That is why the count of settlements sits beside it: a day that settled twice instead of three times moves the daily figure without the rate itself moving at all, and without the count the two are impossible to tell apart.
A rate that stays high for weeks is expensive to sit through, and it is often what makes a crowded position unwind. It is a cost, not a forecast: it says what holding costs today, never where the price goes next.