$KERNEL short, being ground down slowly by the funding rate

+18.8%, 0.04984. It’s lively on the way up, but the ones paying are the shorts.

OI drew a very strange line: 1.3M → 1.3M → 1.3M → 1.4M, +10.6%.
The first three segments didn’t move at all, and the last one suddenly lifted its head.

Price is rising, and positions are also adding—this isn’t a low-volume fade; it’s real cash being poured in.

Funding rate: -0.5832% → -0.6512%.
To translate it: the shorts are starting to gain an edge, but the holding cost of short positions is moving upward.

-0.6512% isn’t emotion; it’s the bill every moment.
You bet it will turn back—first it charges you the toll.

$12.0M volume traded, market cap $19.8M. The pool isn’t big, but the commotion isn’t small.

Upbit removes KernelDAO (KERNEL) from the delisting watchlist—10 news items are staring at this screen.

What shorts think is: “It’s gone up so much, it should be tired already.”
But at deep negative rates, it might also end up with shorts tripping over themselves.

Both sides have reason; leverage doesn’t. First see whether the trades can hold, then decide whether to keep holding.

Risk warning: funding rates can flip on you, and positions won’t lighten themselves—don’t let a single reverse pin pick your exit point for you.

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