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.
RIGHT NOW
On Binance, people betting on a rise paid 0.0242% a day to the people betting on a fall. As of Oct 20, 2026.
That reading is down 12.2% over the past 30 days.
Funding rate on Binance, today
What it costs to bet on a rise
down 12.2% over the past 30 days, as of Oct 20, 2026
settlements that day
flat over the past 30 days, as of Oct 20, 2026
Understanding
Binance Bitcoin Funding Rate
Where it stands today
On Binance, people betting on a rise paid 0.0242% a day to the people betting on a fall as of .
Binance settled funding 3 times that day as of .
What is funding rate?
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.
Why more than one line?
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.
What does it tell you?
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.
The numbers
behind the chart
What does the current reading show?
Funding rate: the latest reading is 0.0242%, on . The highest reading since is 0.0300% on ; the lowest is -0.0032% on .
Funding rate on Binance, one reading a day, newest first.
What are the latest, highest and lowest readings?
| Measure | Latest | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Funding rate | 0.0242% | 0.0300% | -0.0032% |
How do the readings compare with earlier dates?
| Reference date | Funding rate |
|---|---|
| 1 month ago | 0.0275% |
What was the reading at each month’s end?
| Reading date | Funding rate |
|---|---|
| 0.0141% | |
| 0.0273% | |
| 0.0251% |
Source: Measured by Maketo at Binance, one reading a day. Reading for .