CASHCAT (Cash Cat) perpetual futures funding rates — also called perpetual swap funding rates — are aggregated live by exchange across 32 venues on ORBIT. Funding is the recurring payment exchanged between long and short traders that keeps a perpetual swap tethered to the spot price — when it is positive, longs pay shorts; when negative, shorts pay longs. Right now CASHCAT funding ranges from -148.15% annualized on Lighter to +145.13% on Crypto.com.
The widest cross-exchange funding spread for CASHCAT is currently 293.3% APR. A delta-neutral funding trade captures this gap by going long on Lighter — where funding is lowest, so the long leg is paid or pays the least — and short on Crypto.com, where funding is highest, so the short leg collects. Because the two legs are equal and opposite, the asset's price moves cancel out and what is left is the funding spread. ORBIT's backtester replays the real funding history of both legs and subtracts live taker fees and order-book slippage, so the result is net PnL, not a headline number.
CASHCAT ranks #125 by open interest among tracked perpetual assets, total open interest across covered venues is $86.9M, 24h volume is $71.6M, the volume-weighted mark price is $0.1666. Deeper liquidity means a funding spread can be traded at larger size with lower slippage — use the Min OI filter on the screener to surface only markets you can realistically enter and exit.
Frequently asked questions
- Which exchange has the highest CASHCAT funding rate right now?
- Crypto.com shows the highest CASHCAT funding at +145.13% annualized. A high positive rate means shorts get paid, so this is the venue to short CASHCAT when running a funding-arbitrage pair. Rates change every settlement window — check the live screener for the current value.
- Which exchange is best to long CASHCAT for funding?
- Lighter has the lowest CASHCAT funding at -148.15% annualized, which makes the long leg cheapest (or paid). Pair it with the highest-funding venue to capture the spread delta-neutral.
- What is the best CASHCAT funding-arbitrage pair?
- The widest spread is long Lighter / short Crypto.com at about 293.3% APR before costs. Verify it in the ORBIT backtester, which subtracts real fees and slippage, before sizing a position.
- How often does CASHCAT funding settle?
- CASHCAT funding settles on different schedules by venue (1h, 4h). Longer intervals concentrate the same annualized rate into fewer, larger payments. ORBIT normalizes every venue to a common APR so they are directly comparable.
- Is CASHCAT funding positive or negative?
- CASHCAT funding is mixed across venues, ranging -148.15% to +145.13% APR — which is exactly what creates the cross-exchange arbitrage opportunity.
- What is the current CASHCAT perpetual swap funding rate?
- The current CASHCAT perpetual swap funding rate ranges from -148.15% to +145.13% annualized depending on the exchange — Lighter is lowest and Crypto.com is highest right now. There is no single CASHCAT funding rate: every venue runs its own funding formula and order book, which is why the rate has to be read by exchange rather than as one number.
- What is the aggregated CASHCAT funding rate across exchanges?
- Aggregated across the 32 venues ORBIT tracks, CASHCAT funding currently spans -148.15% to +145.13% APR, a spread of 293.3 percentage points. An aggregated average hides the part that matters for trading — the gap between the cheapest and dearest venue — so the table above lists each exchange separately.
- How do I read the CASHCAT 8h funding rate versus the annualized rate?
- CASHCAT does not settle on an 8-hour schedule on the venues tracked here. Because intervals differ by exchange, comparing raw per-payment rates is misleading; ORBIT normalizes each venue to annualized APR so the numbers are directly comparable.
Lighter
Crypto.com
