Contract Order Book Daily Report|9/8 Midday: RWA Perpetual Sees Record Volume Surge, but the Main Theme Breaks
$BTC mark price is around 788k, down 1.08% over the past 24 hours.
Funding rate is still 0.74%, which is relatively high. Open interest is $8.439 billion, almost unchanged from the prior value.
Longs account for 54%. The number of long positions isn’t small, but the share of active buy orders is only 0.85. This suggests the recent drop is being pushed forward by the sellers—many longs, yet they couldn’t hold back the sell pressure.
Ethereum, BNB, and Solana are also broadly down, but the funding rate divergence is even more明显.
Ethereum’s funding rate is still 0.2%, and longs are paying for it as usual.
Solana’s funding rate has flipped negative to -0.21%—shorts have already started collecting.
This combination of “price falling while funding rates don’t ease” historically looks more like a phase that flushes out unrealized profit holders first; it doesn’t necessarily mean the trend has already reversed.
Another line worth watching: perpetual contracts for tokenized real-world assets. In August, trading volume surged to $79.95 billion, setting a new monthly high.
But the main trading that supports this line—arbitrage and basis plays—clearly weakened in the same month: as volume increased, the玩法 (trading play) first dispersed.
Paired with community chatter over the past couple of days about tokenized stock redemption terms: some platforms label that a certain token can be redeemed for corresponding shares, but the details state that the redemption right belongs to the issuer, not something holders can decide.
As a narrative, tokenized assets may look good on volumes, but the redemption/settlement details don’t hold up under close inspection. Don’t treat trading volume as a credit endorsement.
Back to the derivatives order book itself: the squeeze list is even more straightforward.
$BNC funding rate +2.0%: longs are packed in tightly and could be forced back into repositioning at any time.
$T funding rate -0.394%. Along with HEMI and ACE also turning negative, shorts are likewise crowded. When a rebound comes, these three are likely to top up funding rates first.
A 1% drop in BTC isn’t a signal by itself. What you should really watch is whether these small-cap tokens, whose funding rates are twisted to extremes, will loosen first. The direction in which they loosen often moves faster than BTC itself.
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Top 3 by 24-hour price increase—go straight through the order book.
#1: SOPH. 24-hour increase: 68.96%. Trading volume: $170 million. Open interest surged 317.4% in 24 hours to $17.83 million. Still adding positions within the last hour (+26.8%). Funding rate: 0.0605%. It has been long-paid for 8 consecutive funding rounds. The aggressive buy-side ratio is 1.07, with longs slightly in control. Price has already surged to 81.6, placing it in the overbought zone. The super trend line is still pointing upward.
#2: IOST. 24-hour increase: 34.34%. Trading volume: $176 million—the highest among the three. Open interest increased 146.4% over 24 hours, but in the past hour it turned into a slight decrease (-2.0%). Funding rate is 0.01%, maintaining long-paid status for 8 straight rounds. Technical position: 60.2, in a neutral range. The long/short account ratio is 1.1; the whales’ direction ratio is 0.84. There’s a divergence between whale positioning and retail structure.
#3: AERO. 24-hour increase: 19.74%—the smallest increase among the three. Trading volume: $66.05 million. Open interest rose 32.7% over 24 hours; the growth rate is clearly slower than the first two coins. But the long/short account ratio is 1.81, and the whales’ direction ratio is 1.83—highest long concentration among the three. Funding rate: 0.005%, long-paid for 8 consecutive rounds. Technical position: 74.0, also in the overbought zone.
The three coins share one common point: the stronger the rally, the faster open interest piles up, and the funding rate is also being paid continuously by longs—suggesting that the chase-long positions are continuously adding leverage. Both SOPH and AERO have already entered the overbought range. In this zone, order-book crowding is high; historically it tends to see sharp volatility and rapid pullbacks. When watching the tape, pay extra attention to the marginal changes in open interest and funding rates.
Bearish signals flicker simultaneously on these three contracts—and in that kind of way that makes people relax their guard: price is still rising, but the structure has started to loosen.
Don’t just look at the bullish percentage numbers. What you fear isn’t that it won’t rise—it’s that it keeps rising, and then the order book thinly holds. Next to watch is whether these coins’ pullbacks begin to play out, and whether the long positions chasing higher prices can withstand any rebound.
CFGUSDT is up 8.91% to $0.1185, but the funding rate has been paying shorts for 6 consecutive periods, at -0.0393%, indicating longs on the contract side are effectively topping up the shorts to keep the order up.
Open interest surged 62.9% in 24 hours to $4.02 million—position inflow is fierce. However, the buy/sell ratio is 0.71 for active sell orders versus buys, meaning the bid side isn’t absorbing this wave of new positions.
Structurally, the Super Trend is still moving upward and volume hasn’t collapsed, but the mismatch between the funding rate and the order-book support is already there. Chasing longs is likely to be punished by both a rebound rejection and a pullback.
ORCAUSDT is up 6.49% to $1.525. Funding has been paying shorts for 8 straight periods and is negative at -0.1729%—even deeper than CFG—suggesting the price paid by longs is higher.
Open interest increased 63.4% in 24 hours to $5.74 million, again reflecting rapid position inflows. Retail longs make up 57%, but the smart-money long/short ratio is only 1.16—divergence is clearly visible.
The counter-evidence: the active buy volume is 1.22, so buys still have the upper hand for now. The system also flags a possible squeeze, which suggests there may still be room for short-term upside pressure—don’t simply treat it as an inevitable drop.
WLDUSDT has the strongest gain, up 14% to $0.478. Its trading value is $485 million, the largest among the three. Open interest is $96.81 million, up 28% over 24 hours.
Retail longs account for 66%, the long/short ratio is 1.93, and the smart-money long/short ratio is even higher at 2.0. Crowding is written right into the data, and the Relative Strength Index of 67.8 is already on the hot side.
The counter-evidence: the funding rate is still paying longs for 8 consecutive periods and is close to zero premium, which indicates there isn’t clear short-side pressure stepping in on the contract side yet. Right now, it’s more about retail crowding structurally rather than a flip in the broader funding/positioning.
The common thread across these coins right now is this: the price line hasn’t broken down, but open interest inflow, the funding-rate structure, and the buy/sell ratio are already starting to “clash.” If order-book support continues to thin, the pullback line is already forming; if it puts volume back in and holds the level, then this assessment needs to be revisited.
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From this order book, I’m bullish. The 24-hour prices of SOPH, AERO, and PUMP are all moving in line; open interest is rising in sync, and the aggressive buy orders haven’t fallen behind.
Next, watch whether these three aspects can be confirmed further: Is the price still climbing following the pace of the public order book? Is the open interest position inflow still continuing? Has there been any change in the funding-rate side—do longs continue paying consecutively?
The strongest point in SOPH’s data is that the 24-hour increase is 37.93%, open interest in the past 24 hours has skyrocketed by 209.4%, and even the 1-hour figure is still adding 9.9%. This indicates that new positions are continuing to pour in at this price level.
Funding rates show 8 consecutive periods of longs paying, and the premium rate is also positive. The direction matches the expansion in open interest.
The counterpoint is that the relative strength indicator is already at 69.7. While it’s still within the neutral range, it’s on the high side; how much further it can run depends on whether it can withstand the push higher.
For AERO, the highlights are a 24-hour gain of 11.5%, open interest up 25.4% over 24 hours, the long-to-short position count ratio reaching 1.82, and even higher for large holders at 1.86—suggesting participation is tilted toward the long side.
Funding rates have 8 consecutive periods of longs paying, consistent with the direction of the price action.
The counterpoint is that the premium rate is negative at -0.051%, and open interest in the 1-hour window has dipped slightly by 2.1%. The short-term chase-long momentum is showing a bit of loosening.
For PUMP, the hard data is a 24-hour trading volume of $349 million, an aggressive buy/sell ratio of 1.34, with buys clearly dominant, and open interest also rising by 10.4% over 24 hours.
Funding rates also show 8 consecutive periods of longs paying, aligned with the direction.
The counterpoint is that the premium rate is -0.0541%, and the long-to-short position count ratio is only 0.86—retail isn’t majority long. The structure is mainly supported by the large-holder ratio of 1.81.
The chips are tightening.
If these three contracts’ open interest continues to rise along with price, and the proportion of aggressive buys keeps staying above 1, then this bullish line continues. If the 24-hour open interest growth turns negative, or if the funding rate shifts from longs paying to shorts paying, then this direction needs to be reassessed.
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Contract Order Book Daily | 9/8 Morning: Prices Fall, Fees Don’t Loosen
Overnight, the four main contracts all weakened together. The $BTC mark price hit 789,000, down 1.36%; Ethereum fell 1.01%; Solana dropped 2.18%; and BNB fell 1.7%.
But funding rates are still all positive. Longs are still paying shorts—this is the classic case of prices dropping without fees keeping up. Leveraged longs haven’t been scared off yet.
Open interest dipped slightly, down 0.2% to $8.454 billion. The reduction in positions doesn’t match the magnitude of last night’s drop, suggesting that not many have truly exited; on the books, longs still account for 54%.
Aggressive sell orders are more intense than buys: sell-side strength is 1.16 times the buy-side. The ones getting hit are still the same group of long-position holders carrying the orders.
The Fear & Greed Index is 71—within the Greed zone. Sentiment is more optimistic than price, and this mismatch is exactly what deserves attention.
Compressing the short side is even more dangerous. The funding rates for shorts in ACE, HEMI, and T are all negative—shorts are effectively topping up to carry their positions. If there’s a rebound, they’re likely to get swept.
Conversely, longs are crowded in BNC, 1000000BOB, and SIREN. Their funding rates have turned positive, and the risk of chasing higher is clearly on the table.
Off-exchange capital isn’t idle either. Since the Lighter protocol launched token generation, it has already repurchased 17.5 million LIT in a programmed manner, accounting for 7% of circulating supply. South Korean conglomerate Hanwha is also choosing to build a tokenized platform on Avalanche.
Institutions and protocol participants are quietly accumulating, while leverage on the perps side hasn’t backed off yet. This mismatch is worth monitoring.
As long as funding rates don’t turn negative, this leg of sell-off hasn’t truly injured the long side.
$BTC $ETH # Funding rate divergence
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This morning’s perpetual contract leaderboard: funds clearly crowded into a few high-volume names. This is not a broad-based pump; it’s a few order books that are pushing on their own.
IOST is up 33.6%, the top gainer today.
Open interest surged 162.3% within an hour—this kind of speed can’t be achieved by slowly building positions.
Trading volume is $143 million, and the volume increase keeps pace with the price rise, indicating this isn’t a thin-book “fake” breakout.
The aggressive buy-side is almost entirely buyer-driven. The long/short participant ratio is also close to 50/50, and the direction hasn’t fully settled yet.
SOPH is up 31.5%; its open-interest increase is even more extreme than IOST’s, at 171.9%.
Funding rate is 0.068%, meaning longs are paying a higher cost for this position—this suggests the market is willing to buy into this direction.
Trading volume is $97.76 million. Volume is about a notch smaller than IOST’s, but the position build-up speed is the fastest today. It’s worth watching how this position is digested going forward.
UAI is up 22%, with open interest up 46.5%. The upside isn’t the most aggressive today, but the number of shorts is still higher than longs—long/short ratio is only 0.77.
In other words, in this leg of the rally, many shorts are holding on against the trend. If price continues higher, this batch of positions could become fuel for the next wave of gains.
The commonality across the three coins is that all three metrics—price increase, trading volume, and open interest—are expanding in sync. It’s not just price spontaneously spiking. This structure is more worth monitoring than a simple pull-up, especially for signs of whether funds withdraw later.
From 4th to 10th, the gains narrowed significantly: BR +21%, PIVEVERSE +21%, AKE +20.8%, INJ +19.2%, SOLV +16.9%, ACE +16.4%, B +15.3%.
On the losers’ board: the Lobster is down 25.5% to rank #1, but the funding rate and open interest show no real change—more like price is one-directionally dropping without much leveraged participation.
HEMI is down 22.8%; the funding rate is negative 0.38%, and open interest simultaneously decreased by 31.3%. This is a classic case of shorts actively reducing positions and exiting, not passively “holding the bag.”
COLLECT is down 20%. The long/short ratio is as high as 2.12. Even after falling this much, there are still more people standing on the long side. If price continues to weaken, the pressure from this position set will grow increasingly heavier.
The two most likely to be closely watched today are still IOST and SOPH: open interest has been pouring in at a doubling level within a few hours, and volume has expanded in sync. Next, the main thing to watch is whether these newly added positions will accelerate into profit-taking or continue stacking.
At around 2 a.m., this order book looks fairly clear—no random darting around everywhere. The money is basically concentrated in a few contracts where open interest has surged.
$IOST is up 27.8%, ranking first.
Price is still struggling in the lower range of the board, but open interest has skyrocketed 104.6% within an hour. This kind of move isn’t just a pulse spike that’s done after a quick pop—the trading volume is 85.58 million. Both long and short sides are stacking positions, so it’s worth watching whether it can hold and push to new highs nearby.
$SOLV is up 23.9%, following the same script.
Open interest is also up 104.4%, nearly synchronized with IOST’s expansion in volume. The funding rate is still positive, indicating longs are willing to keep paying to hold—once someone can’t keep propping it up, it’s easy to get squeezed out of the direction.
$PIEVERSE is up 22.2%. Price has already come up to around the 24-hour high of 1.3177. Open interest is up 31.8%, not as dramatic as the first two, but the funding rate is clearly higher at 0.043. The long side’s willingness to pay is the strongest here, belonging to the most expensive positions among the same group.
Overall, the vibe is that capital is concentrating in just a handful of contracts with explosive open-interest growth, with limited follow-through across the rest of the market. Watching IOST and SOLV—where open interest doubles—whether that continuation can persist is more meaningful than chasing the raw percentage gain numbers.
From 4th to 10th, the increases are: UAI up 21.5%, CATI up 19.4%, KAS up 18.3%, PUMP up 14.7%, KAVA up 14.3%, DOT up 14.2%, and ZJ up 14.1%. The rise gradient is very smooth—no gaps.
On the losers’ board, HEMI is down 26.2%, the worst. The funding rate has already flipped negative to -0.193, which suggests shorts are effectively paying to maintain their positions. The longer this structure drags without closing, the more likely it is to get squeezed out by a decent rebound—worth comparing alongside the gainers’ list.
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Contract Order Book Daily|9/7 Evening: Funding rates aren’t moving with Bitcoin’s drop
Bitcoin’s mark price is 791,000, down 0.46% over the past 24 hours. With CPI data coming up soon, will the Fed tighten again—this has been brought up and argued over repeatedly.
But looking at the derivatives order book, what’s abnormal is the funding rate staying completely still: $BTC funding rate is only 0.0032%, open interest is up to $8.552 billion against the trend (+0.6%). Longs account for 53%, and active buying makes up 67%.
With prices falling, positions not being reduced, and active buying still leaning bullish, this combination looks more like someone is picking up inventory—not a panic exit.
$ETH and BNB are also rising at the same time, with funding rates at just 0.0047% and 0.0052% respectively—nothing looks overheated. SOL is down 1.05%, and its funding rate is as low as 0.0011%, suggesting no one here is willing to add leverage and chase longs.
The real out-of-the-ordinary move off-exchange is in $ZEC : it has surged nearly 18% over 24 hours. The privacy-coin sector is being brought back into discussion, and the Fear & Greed Index has also jumped to 71—into the Greed zone.
Hot money isn’t running away; it’s just relocating.
Small-cap funding rates are being pushed to extremes on both sides: ORCA -0.237%, HEMI -0.225%, ACE -0.19%. Shorts are effectively paying to hold their positions; once there’s a rebound, they’re the easiest to get squeezed. FOLKS +0.083%, SIREN +0.081%, COLLECT +0.078%—the longs are the ones paying. On the first pullback, they’re also the ones most likely to get hurt first.
If funding rates aren’t moving with price, and the direction isn’t settled yet, don’t treat this as a trend signal.
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ORCA, FIDA, and ZAMA were all targets for a bearish “high-level distribution observation” warning about ~13 hours ago. Now they’ve finished settling: 1 had a pullback that didn’t manage to break into the downside (ORCA), while 2 cashed out and continued to weaken (FIDA, ZAMA). Back then, the initial observation was: “chips are dispersed.”
ORCA: pullback. The morning bearish case hasn’t played out yet. After the initial move, price rebounded 7.67% instead of falling, and open interest rose in parallel by 81.21%. This suggests the pullback didn’t trigger heavy liquidation pressure; instead, new positions seem to be moving in. It’s inconsistent with the “high-level distribution” direction. The funding rate has turned negative, but only slightly—so far there’s no sign that the bears are calling the shots.
FIDA: cashed out. That morning’s bearish line has broken through. After the initial move, price kept sliding another 4.41%, and open interest also dipped a bit (down 4.48%). Direction and follow-through both weakened together—not just a slow, drifting down move in price. Positions are backing off as well. Although the proportion of aggressive buy volume has slightly rebounded, it wasn’t enough to bring about a price reversal.
ZAMA: cashed out, and more decisively than FIDA. After the initial move, price fell 5.05%. The move percentage flipped directly from +14.77% to now -10.83%, a complete reversal. More importantly, volume shrank 27.29%, and the share of aggressive buy volume clearly fell off as well. The retreat in volume accompanied the weakening in price—this looks like a “shrinking-volume, fading selloff,” not a fake drop forced by someone dumping.
Next, what to watch along this line is: for ORCA, whether open interest is still continuing to build up (if it doesn’t decline, the pullback could extend and the original direction would need to be reconsidered); for FIDA and ZAMA, whether the support/acceptance is thinning further and whether the share of aggressive buy volume keeps sliding lower. As long as the down-move with shrinking volume isn’t interrupted by a surge in buying volume, this pullback observation still holds. If any one suddenly pulls up on heavy volume or open interest spikes sharply, that would be a counter-signal requiring immediate reassessment.
Observations and recap of the morning pull-ups for JUP, SOLV, and COTI — producing the final post directly:
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About 11 hours ago, I shared an observation and bullish signal for the morning pull-up. Among the three coins, SOLV stood out; JUP cooled down; and COTI was still tugging around without reaching a one-direction conclusion. At that time, the observation was that the chips were getting accumulated.
SOLV: Taking profits. The morning bullish setup was held. After the first breakout, the price continued to rise by 22.25%, and open interest increased in sync by 67.79%. This isn’t just a simple price pump—it’s real follow-through from positioning. Trading volume also surged by 91.25%, and the strength of the passive? aggressive? buying demand (active bid pressure) rose from 0.74 to 1.07. The buyer is still actively eating orders, and this line now looks like it may continue.
JUP: Cooling down. The morning bullish signal couldn’t carry the heat. The price’s rise from the initial level (up 18.41%) has since pulled back to a current drop of 3.19%, a spread of over 21 percentage points between the upswing and downswing. Open interest fell by 10.11%, indicating that the new positions entered after the first breakout were withdrawing—not a washout-style adjustment, but a genuine retreat in momentum. Trading volume also shrank by 34.21%, and the buying pressure weakened along with it. This coin has not achieved the bullish direction that morning.
COTI: Tussling. The direction still hasn’t broken out. The price is basically flat; since the initial breakout it’s only down 0.49%. Open interest has also hardly moved (-0.85%): positions haven’t clearly been withdrawn, but there hasn’t been new addition either. Trading volume decreased by 31.14%, and active buy pressure dropped from 1.16 to 0.95. The order book feels rather cold and quiet. Right now, it can’t be considered a bullish realization, nor can it be viewed as a clear reverse—it's still waiting for a direction confirmation.
Next, what you need to watch on this line is: SOLV—whether it can hold the double increase in both open interest and trading volume (if open interest turns down, the continuation will need to be questioned). JUP—whether its open interest can stop falling and stabilize; this is the key to judging whether it still has a chance to reattach to a bullish move. COTI—who breaks the current volume quietness first: if either open interest or active buy pressure is the first to surge, that will be the signal that direction must choose a side.
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Top 3 gainers on the 24-hour chart this morning—now pulling the data to reconcile. After 8 hours, the three coins have traced three different curves.
RAYSOL: the momentum has cooled off. The price is down 4.16% from its initial listing; the current price is 1.1935. Open interest fell from $10.42M to $9.04M, down 13.25%. The funding rate narrowed from -0.0489% to -0.0214%—short funding costs are easing—but the price hasn’t caught up; the gain dropped from 32.45% to 3.86%. The long/short ratio is 53%, slightly leaning long. RSI is back to 49.8, and market sentiment has cooled.
DOOD: profits are being realized. The price continues to rise 20.29% from the initial listing; the current price is 0.002271. Open interest surged from $4.31M to $7.79M, up 80.62%. Trading volume increased 141.22%, with both capital and positions moving up together. The funding rate fell from 0.0514% to 0.0208%, indicating long costs are decreasing; the gain expanded from 29.58% to 41.32%. RSI is already 78.7, in an overheated zone—watch out for pullback risk if chasing.
ORCA: the momentum has cooled off. The price is down 6.34% from its initial listing; the current price is 1.536. Open interest trimmed slightly by 1.31%, with little change, but the funding rate has narrowed sharply from -0.6877% to -0.4224%. Short capital costs are still very high. The strength of active sell orders has increased; the buy/sell book ratio fell from 1.06 to 0.79, and the gain dropped from 26.06% to 13.61%.
Three coins, three scripts: DOOD’s open interest and volume expand in sync—this looks like adding positions while taking profits. RAYSOL and ORCA both see funding rates narrow but prices lag; open interest hasn’t kept up or is shrinking—high-level pullback risk is right on the surface. #币安合约 # Market recap
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The early warning of high-level distribution issued about 6 hours ago in the morning was that the chips were being distributed at the time. Now, based on the public order book settlement: among the 3 coins, FIDA and ZAMA have realized the decline, and the direction has played out; ORCA did not fall and instead rose, it was a rebound, and it did not form a one-sided downtrend.
ORCA: rebound, the bearish signal from the morning did not materialize. After the launch, the price instead rose 6.69%, moving in the opposite direction of the warning. What is more notable is that open interest surged 79.83%, indicating funds were adding positions rather than exiting; the funding rate further turned negative to -0.2488%, with shorts paying to hold their positions, yet the price was still supported by buy orders. The distribution pressure has so far failed to crush the market structure.
FIDA: realized, the bearish direction of high-level distribution played out. After the launch, the price continued to weaken by 8.28%, while open interest contracted by 19.87% at the same time, showing a characteristic of price falling with volume decreasing and funds withdrawing, rather than a simple shakeout. Aggressive buying also retreated, and the support clearly thinned.
ZAMA: realized, also weakened in price, but at a slower pace. After the launch, the price pulled back 3.64%, and open interest decreased slightly by 5.21%, indicating chips were being slowly withdrawn; the aggressive buying ratio fell from 1.12 to 0.97, with buying and selling forces moving toward balance. The weakness is still continuing, but it has not accelerated.
Next, the focus is whether ORCA can hold the rebound. If open interest keeps surging but the price turns downward, then it can be considered that distribution pressure is once again suppressing buy orders. For FIDA and ZAMA, the key is whether aggressive buying will continue to fade and whether support will keep thinning. That is the key to judging whether this round of gradual decline can evolve into a one-sided move.
About 4 hours ago, an early-morning pump observation pointed to these three contracts as bullish. The initial review at launch was that chips were accumulating. Now, checking against the public order book, 2 out of the 3 played out, while 1 failed to hold.
JUP: momentum faded; the bullish call from the morning did not materialize. After the initial post, price retraced 4.31%, and the 24-hour gain narrowed from 18.41% to 9.43%. Open interest fell by 10.86% at the same time; price and positioning moved down together, which suggests positions were being reduced rather than just a shakeout.
SOLV: played out, and the move is still extending with added pressure. After the initial post, price continued higher by 3.03%, while open interest rose by 4.98%. Aggressive buy volume also increased from 0.74 to 0.96. Price, open interest, and buying pressure are all rising together, so this bullish line is currently holding.
COTI: played out, and moved in the direction anticipated this morning. After the initial post, price rose 6.48% and open interest rose 6.84%, with positioning increasing alongside price. Funding rate shifted from 0.005% to -0.0072%, so longs were not obviously overcrowded. This rally is not looking hollow.
Next, watch these points to confirm whether this move is still intact: for JUP, whether price can stop falling first and whether open interest keeps shrinking; for SOLV and COTI, whether open interest and aggressive buy volume can continue rising. If positioning falls behind while price is still pushing higher, that is a signal to reassess this setup.
Contract Market Daily | 9/7 Midday: White Hat Takes 4,000 Coins, But Rates Don’t Flinch
Liquid Network was reported to have had a "white hat hacker" withdraw 4,000 bitcoins from its Bitcoin federal reserve, worth roughly $320 million, and the network has already been suspended for cleanup. This news is tied to $BTC , but on the derivatives side the mark price is 79,722, only down 0.17% over the past 24 hours, with almost no reaction. That suggests the money was not pulled directly from the market; the impact started on-chain and has not yet reached the order book.
Another, more concrete signal: spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a net inflow of $987 million last week, the best week this year. Institutions are rebuilding positions along this line, contrasting with the calm in derivatives.
The positioning structure is worth a closer look. Open interest is $8.422 billion, down 1.1% in a day, while price is basically flat. This combination of "positions shrinking, price not falling" looks more like active rotation or profit-taking than a leverage-driven liquidation exit. Funding rate is 0.42‰, meaning longs are still paying shorts as usual. The long/short ratio is basically balanced at 51%, but aggressive selling has the upper hand, with the order book leaning bearish. The Fear & Greed Index is 71, in greed territory, but greed with such restrained funding has limited substance; it feels like sentiment moved first while leverage did not keep up.
In small caps, both sides show extreme funding: T, ORCA, and AKE have short funding around -0.6%, making crowded shorts vulnerable to a squeeze; tokenized stocks such as BYD, HK1810, and ZHIPU have long funding from +0.1% to +0.18%, so longs are not having an easy time either.
The key thing to watch next is one point: if funding keeps rising along with greed, that means sentiment is being converted into leverage; if it stays still, then the explanation of "active de-risking" becomes even more credible, and the stalemate of not falling and not rising will likely continue.
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In the morning watchlist, first go over the top 3 on today’s perpetual contract 24-hour gainers list. All of them have gains below triple digits, but their structures differ significantly. Let’s look directly at the order books.
RAYSOL is currently priced at 1.2453, with a 24-hour gain of 32.45% and a trading volume of 490 million USD, the largest capital scale among the three coins. Open interest surged 210.2% over the past 24 hours, but it only rose 1.5% in the most recent hour, indicating that most of this position-building happened earlier and the current pace is slowing. The funding rate is -0.0489%, and shorts have been paying for 4 consecutive periods. The long/short ratio is 1.14, with longs accounting for 53%, a combination of rising prices but a funding rate skewed toward short-side payment.
DOOD is currently priced at 0.001888, with a 24-hour gain of 29.58% and trading volume of 59.69 million USD, a scale clearly smaller than RAYSOL. Open interest increased 160.2% over 24 hours, but fell 7.3% in the most recent hour, suggesting that funds are reducing positions at higher levels. The funding rate is +0.0514%, with longs paying for 8 consecutive periods. The long/short ratio is 1.74, and longs account for 64%, making it the most crowded long trade among the three coins. RSI 65.7 is in a neutral-to-hot zone.
ORCA is currently priced at 1.64, with a 24-hour gain of 26.06% and trading volume of 41.6 million USD, the smallest among the three. Its biggest highlight is RSI 78.6, which has entered overbought territory; at the same time, open interest accelerated upward by 27.1% in the most recent hour, indicating that new positions are still flowing in right now rather than cooling off. The funding rate is -0.6877%, with shorts paying for 3 consecutive periods. The premium/discount rate is -1.8381%, the deepest negative funding rate and discount among the three coins.
The three coins share one common point: their 24-hour open interest growth far exceeds their price gains (210.2%, 160.2%, 68.2%), indicating that this wave is more about rapid buildup in derivatives positions than simple spot-driven price discovery. Historically, leading gainers like these can pull back quickly when sentiment fades, especially combinations like ORCA, where RSI is already overbought and funding has turned deeply negative; volatility may be even stronger. When watching the tape, just pay attention to changes in open interest growth and funding rate momentum. This does not constitute any trading advice.
For the three contracts JUPUSDT, SOLVUSDT, and COTIUSDT, prices have all been moving upward over the past 24 hours, and open interest has also been rising in sync. The signal I see in the market is positions flowing in together with price, rather than a one-legged price pump with positions failing to follow.
Next, I’m watching whether each of these three coins can continue to confirm their respective signals.
JUPUSDT is currently priced at 0.2644, up 18.41% over 24 hours, with trading volume at 129 million USD, and 24-hour open interest up 67.0%. Funding rates have been paid by longs for 8 consecutive intervals, the supertrend indicator shows an upward trend, and active buys account for 0.79 of the order-book activity. The chips are accumulating. This means that while price is moving with the trend, incremental positions are also following in, but note that 1-hour open interest has already turned down by 4.1%, indicating that the short-term pace of position growth is slowing.
SOLVUSDT is currently priced at 0.003761, up 13.76% over 24 hours, with 24-hour open interest up 74.4%, the highest among the three coins. Funding rates have also been paid by longs for 8 consecutive intervals, and the premium rate is relatively high at 0.0359%. The chips are accumulating. The counterpoint is that the buy-sell ratio is 0.74, with active sells actually dominating, which is not fully aligned with the simultaneous upward movement in price and open interest. This point needs separate attention.
COTIUSDT is currently priced at 0.016881, up 5.43% over 24 hours, with trading volume at 86.5 million USD and 24-hour open interest up 16.3%. The buy-sell ratio is 1.16, led by active buying, while funding rates have had shorts paying for 8 consecutive intervals and the premium rate is negative 0.1472%, indicating that the spot side is relatively strong while the futures side has not fully caught up. The chips are accumulating. Under this structure, the upside is the smallest among the three coins, and the momentum is relatively weak.
If these three coins continue to strengthen in price while open interest growth and the share of active buying remain in sync, this move can continue. If open interest growth turns down like JUPUSDT did, or if the buy-sell ratio keeps being pressured by active selling like SOLVUSDT, then this direction needs to be re-evaluated.
Contracts that may drift lower and be sold off today
Bearish signals have already started to emerge, and these few coins are showing a bias toward a slow, grinding pullback.
Prices are still up, but the structure has loosened. Don’t just look at the green percentage gains; chasing highs is easily punished by both rebounds and pullbacks.
What’s scary isn’t that price isn’t rising, but that as it rises, support keeps thinning. From here on, watch whether the pullback really develops and whether support is getting thinner and thinner.
ORCA is currently at 1.435, up 11.33% in 24 hours, but the funding rate is -0.0191%. Shorts have paid for three straight periods, while open interest surged 33.8% in 24 hours to $35.22 million.
What does this mean? The gain is positive, but the funding rate is negative, which means longs failed to squeeze shorts out. Instead, open interest poured in aggressively at this level, and positions are dispersing.
The counterpoint is that RSI is 62, still in neutral territory, and the trendline is still upward, so the market structure hasn’t completely flipped yet.
FIDA is currently at 0.02198, up 13.12% in 24 hours, with open interest surging 78.4% in 24 hours to $18.8 million. Funding has paid shorts for one straight period, and the order book is flagged as possibly a short squeeze.
What does this mean? Capital is flowing in faster than price is rising. Once the squeeze ends, these positions are the easiest fuel for a pullback, and the chips are dispersing.
The counterpoint is that the active buy ratio is 0.79, so buying power is not especially strong, which suggests volume has not yet reached the level of concentrated distribution.
ZAMA is currently at 0.05743, up 14.77% in 24 hours, with turnover close to $39.7 million and open interest up 31.5% in 24 hours to $90.13 million. But the long/short ratio is only 0.72, meaning retail shorts actually make up the majority.
What does this mean? It’s the strongest gainer, but the funding rate is only 0.005%, and longs have paid for six straight periods without much pain. The structure looks weaker than the price action suggests, and the chips are dispersing.
The counterpoint is that the whale long/short ratio is as high as 1.6, which means big money has not clearly turned bearish yet.
If support keeps thinning, the pullback is in motion. If volume returns and price holds firmly, this judgment needs to be revisited.
$ORCA $FIDA $ZAMA #contractorderbook
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Contract Market Daily | 9/7 Morning: Fear and Greed at 73, but funding is still restrained
$BTC mark price is 79972.3, up 0.27%. The Fear and Greed Index is 73, in the greed zone. Yet perpetual funding is only 0.0053%, open interest at $8.479 billion is almost unchanged, price change is 0, and active buy/sell ratio is 0.99, with sellers still holding a slight edge. Greed is greed, but leverage hasn’t gone wild, and this mismatch is worth watching.
The split is even clearer by coin. BNB is down 2.52%, but funding is still positive at 0.0025%, meaning longs haven’t reduced exposure and are sitting on unrealized losses while betting on a rebound. ETH funding is 0.0072%, the highest in the market, and it’s up 1.03%, making ETH the main recipient of leveraged capital this round. SOL funding is 0.0028%, with the strongest gain at 2.37%, so it’s following the move up without being overbought.
On the news front, Blockstream’s Liquid Network had 4,000 BTC taken by a self-proclaimed white-hat hacker, worth about $320 million, and the network has been paused. It is framed as a preventive extraction, but a sudden transfer of funds at that scale is itself a signal. Put that together with restrained funding, and you get a picture where sentiment inside the market is greedy while risk management outside the market is still active. This kind of split won’t resolve in a day.
For smaller coins, crowded positioning is also obvious: LA is crowded on the short side, with funding at -0.407%; ESPORTS is crowded on the long side, with funding at +0.163%. Going forward, watch whether funding on these two directions narrows. If it narrows, it means the squeeze is being unwound; if not, then it may still have room to run.
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RAYSOL led the morning session, surging 43.6% in 24 hours, but there is only one signal worth noting: open interest exploded 267.8% in one direction.
That scale of position buildup, combined with 431 million in trading volume, shows this is not just a few accounts hyping it up; real money is flowing in.
The invalidation conditions are clear: if open interest stops rising over the next few hours or even reverses, or if the price breaks below the 24-hour low area around 8725, then this signal is invalid and it means the funds have already left.
$RAYSOL $DOOD $METIS
The others also had some movement, but on a much smaller scale. DOOD rose 25.6% with open interest up 129%. METIS rose 24.4%, with funding rates turning negative and shorts effectively paying to hold positions. This kind of structure is prone to a squeeze, but the scale is still far below RAYSOL.
Among the rest of the top ten, NAORIS, ZEC, FLOCK, XAN, JUP, FIDA, and CHILLGUY all posted gains between 15% and 24%, with no similar abnormal position activity, so they are not worth tracking separately for now.
For this morning's move, the key is whether RAYSOL's open interest growth rate will slow down. That's the only thing that can verify whether the signal is still intact.
#Futures Market
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At around 2 a.m., most names are asleep, but in the futures market three contracts are really moving.
$RAYSOL is up 58.7%. Behind that rise, open interest surged 384.4%, meaning this wasn’t built up slowly; new money rushed in to open positions in a short time.
The price jumped all the way from 0.8552 to 1.4422, with huge volatility. The funding rate is still negative, so shorts are still paying to hold their positions at this level. The further price goes up, the more uncomfortable shorts become.
$FLOCK is up 39.8%, open interest rose 41.4%, and the funding rate is -0.039%. Shorts are continuously paying, and the number of longs is more than 1.3 times that of shorts. The market is clearly being driven by longs, and this kind of consistency is more worth watching than a simple price pump.
$ARB is up 31.4%. This is the one with the biggest trading volume among the three, close to $990 million. Open interest rose 56.8% at the same time, which shows this wave is not a small-fund test; it is real money adding to positions. Long and short participation is nearly balanced, the divergence is still unresolved, and the next move depends on who gives up first.
Overall, the common point across these three contracts is that the gains were accompanied by a sharp rise in open interest. This is not just pure price euphoria. When volume, price, and open interest all rise together, the move is more likely to continue than a one-legged pump. Even at this late hour, the structure is still holding, which suggests this is not emotion-driven. Funds are continuously following through, so it is worth watching whether $RAYSOL can hold onto this newly added position size.
From fourth to tenth place, UAI is up 27.3%, DOOD 27.0%, NAORIS 22.1%, XAN 21.1%, JUP 19.5%, CHILLGUY 18.4%, and LAYER 18.2%, showing an overall broad-based rise but with a ladder-like fading of strength.
On the decliners list, COLLECT is down 33.8%, with the funding rate turning positive, while longs are still stubbornly holding on; AKE is down 30.9%, with a funding rate of -0.237% and open interest shrinking 36.7% in sync, meaning people are really exiting rather than buying the dip; Niulai is down 28.8%, with little change in open interest, looking more like a one-sided price decline without much new capital participating.
$RAYSOL #futures market
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