BackPack vs Binance Funding Arbitrage

33 shared markets · net of estimated fees · updated every few minutes

BackPack and Binance both quote 33 of the same perpetual markets, so a delta-neutral position can be split across the two and collect the difference in their funding. The widest spread on a market with real depth is BNB — long Binance / short BackPack at 9.7% net APR — but the median across all shared markets is 17.7%, which is the number worth planning around.

33
shared markets
9.7%
best net APR · ≥$1M vol
17.7%
median net APR
28
markets ≥5% net APR
4
with ≥$1M lower-leg volume

BackPack / Binance spreads by market

top 25 by net APR
MarketLongShortGross APRNet APR7d avg24h vol · lower leg
CHIPBinanceBackPack197.4%191.8%-16.9%$210K
EDGEBinanceBackPack150.5%145.6%+18.1%$157K
0GBackPackBinance103.2%96.7%-5.0%$46K
STABLEBinanceBackPack95.8%88.7%+38.2%$13K
ZORABinanceBackPack77.2%73.8%-5.6%$378K
JTOBinanceBackPack72.6%69.5%+21.3%$101K
METBinanceBackPack65.3%61.7%+82.6%$60K
SKRBinanceBackPack60.7%57.1%-17.8%$385K
SEIBackPackBinance57.1%53.4%+45.5%$93K
BILLBinanceBackPack56.0%49.2%+5.3%$69K
PENGUBinanceBackPack36.4%33.1%+0.9%$39K
MONBackPackBinance28.8%25.2%+2.9%$121K
AVNTBackPackBinance27.3%23.0%+17.3%$23K
DOTBackPackBinance25.4%22.5%+12.7%$134K
TIABackPackBinance22.7%19.6%+10.7%$18K
OPBackPackBinance22.3%19.1%+46.7%$65K
VVVBackPackBinance21.0%17.7%+6.5%$68K
XMRBackPackBinance17.1%13.4%-28.0%$157K
ZROBinanceBackPack15.5%12.6%-15.2%$470K
KAITOBackPackBinance14.3%11.2%+6.4%$41K
ENABinanceBackPack14.0%11.1%-18.3%$54K
XRPBinanceBackPack13.6%10.9%+6.1%$459K
BNBBinanceBackPack12.1%9.7%+1.8%$1.7M
ZECBinanceBackPack12.3%9.7%+15.5%$3.4M
PAXGBinanceBackPack9.4%7.1%-10.8%$150K

Net APR subtracts entry and exit fees, both legs' bid/ask spread and estimated slippage from the gross funding spread. The 7-day average is historical gross funding for the same pair: a current rate close to it suggests the spread has persisted, one far above it is usually a spike that will decay.

Which venue is the long leg

14
markets long on BackPack
19
markets long on Binance
22
markets ≥10% net APR

The long leg is whichever venue currently prices funding lower for that market — it is a property of the market, not of the exchange, and it flips as rates move.

BackPack vs Binance — FAQ

How many markets can you arbitrage between BackPack and Binance?

33 perpetual markets are quoted on both BackPack and Binance right now. 28 of them show a net spread of at least 5% APR after estimated fees, and 4 have at least $1M of 24h volume on the smaller leg.

What is the best BackPack / Binance funding spread right now?

BNB: long Binance and short BackPack for about 9.7% net APR after estimated fees, counting only markets with at least $1M of 24h volume on the smaller leg. The median across all 33 shared markets is 17.7%, so the top of the list is not typical.

Which side pays on the BackPack / Binance pair?

It varies by market: BackPack is the long (funding-receiving) leg in 14 of the shared markets and Binance in the other 19. The direction is set per market by which venue currently prices funding lower.

Trading the BackPack / Binance spread

The trade is one position split across two venues: long the exchange paying the more negative funding, short the one paying the more positive, in the same size. Direction risk is largely offset, and the position earns the funding difference each interval. What limits it is not the headline APR but the smaller leg's liquidity, the fees on both sides, and how long the spread survives — funding decays and flips, often within hours. Per-market detail, including a backtest, is on each market's funding page; the full calculation is in the methodology.

Venue detail: BackPack funding rates · Binance funding rates

Related exchange pairs

Coverage note: BackPack and Binance share 33 markets, 4 of them with real depth — below the 10 markets / 5 liquid this page treats as full coverage, so this is a thin sample rather than a picture of the pair.