Litecoin
Real-time LTC perpetual funding rates across 13 major exchanges — Binance, Bybit, OKX, Deribit, Hyperliquid, Gate.io, Bitget, KuCoin, MEXC, HTX, BingX, CoinEx, and BitMEX.
The Litecoin (LTC) perpetual funding rate is a periodic payment exchanged between long and short holders of LTC perpetual futures contracts, designed to keep the perpetual price anchored to the underlying spot price. When LTC funding is positive, longs pay shorts — signalling bullish leveraged crowding. When negative, shorts pay longs — often during a capitulation or heavy hedging flow. Sharpe aggregates LTC funding rates from 13 exchanges with each exchange's rate normalized to annualized APR (APR = rate × 8,760 / interval_hours) so you can directly compare 1-hour rates from Hyperliquid against 8-hour rates from Binance, Bybit, and OKX.
Litecoin (LTC) perpetual futures trade $300M to $600M OI on Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, and Kraken. LTC funding has a remarkably stable baseline near 0.005% per 8h — one of the calmest profiles among top-30 coins, reflecting LTC's mature, holder-heavy base and its role as a 'digital silver' alternative to BTC. LTC funding spikes cyclically around halving events (every 4 years, next ~Aug 2027) and around periodic ETF speculation (Canary Capital LTC ETF filing 2024). LTC has no staking yield, no burn mechanism, and predictable supply schedule, giving funding a clean, almost Bitcoin-like character at smaller scale. Privacy-feature activation (MWEB) adds occasional regulatory-risk funding dips on negative news (Korean exchange delistings 2022).
LTC funding is a late-cycle rotation signal. When LTC funding exceeds BTC funding by 10+ bps per 8h, retail is rotating from 'expensive' BTC into 'cheaper' LTC — a classic late-cycle pattern. LTC halving narratives produce predictable 4-6 month pre-halving funding ramps (2015, 2019, 2023 all printed this pattern). ETF filing news produces 3-7 day funding spikes that typically mean-revert unless approval timeline is imminent. Kraken and Coinbase LTC perp/futures (CME) provide the cleanest institutional read; when CME basis widens vs. Binance funding, ETF flow anticipation is building. LTC correlation with BCH funding is high — paired moves confirm retail rotation thesis.
Use the LTC funding rate as three separate signals. First, as a sentiment indicator: persistent 8-hour rates above 0.03% (~33% APR) often precede Litecoin corrections as leveraged longs crowd. Second, as a carry opportunity: hold long spot + short perp to collect the funding payment while staying delta-neutral — use Sharpe's arbitrage calculator to size the trade. Third, as a cross-exchange divergence signal: when Binance LTC funding diverges meaningfully from OKX or Hyperliquid, the positioning asymmetry often precedes a volatility expansion. Sharpe's funding rate terminal and leaderboard surface these divergences automatically.
The live cross-exchange LTCfunding rate table with annualized APR, accumulated carry, and the full historical chart are on Sharpe's funding rate terminal and coin explorer.