$GTC The previous post showed an extreme combination: over four hours, price surged from 0.164 to 0.393, then gave it all back, while the funding rate stayed firmly at -2.00% without moving toward neutral even once. This time, it was the cost side that eased first: the reading returned to -0.221%, the first clear move toward the zero line since tracking began.

Price, meanwhile, has stabilized. The current price is 0.30346 USDT, about 2.7% above the 0.29535 in the previous post. The latest one-hour change is +0.83%, compared with -4.47% in the previous post; the latest four-hour change is +2.73%, a completely different pace from the four-hour candle in the previous post, which gave up three-quarters of its gains. 24-hour trading volume is around 18.22 million USDT, about 26% higher than the roughly 14.41 million in the previous post.

The tug-of-war from the previous stretch—price moving sharply in one direction while the cost side failed to follow—has eased a little on both sides this time. Whether this continues depends on two levels: holding above the four-hour high of 0.32612 would confirm that this move is genuinely shifting into another gear; a close below the four-hour low of 0.27525 would give back the rebound so far.

One caveat: the 24-hour change is still +63.2%. A market that has moved more than 60% in a day is naturally volatile, and the funding rate's move toward the zero line could prove to be only a brief reversion. Neither side has truly chosen a direction yet.

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