Crypto Derivatives Report H1 2023: Open Interest, Funding, Liquidations

Key numbers: H1 2023

perpetual futures · UTC

Open interest at the end

$8.60B

+51% like-for-like

BTC average funding

7.2% APR

negative on 7 of 181 days

1. Open interest

daily average per exchange, USD

Open interest on Binance and Bybit went from $5.68B on 1 Jan 2023 to $8.60B on 30 Jun 2023 (+51%), peaking at $9.57B on 14 Apr 2023. Bitcoin ended the period with 52% of it ($4.46B, +87%). Across the 2 exchanges recorded on 30 Jun 2023, Binance held the largest share, 79% of $8.60B.

Covers Binance and Bybit for the whole period. The chart and the changes use only the exchanges recorded on both 1 Jan 2023 and 30 Jun 2023 (Binance, Bybit). Before this site recorded them live, the numbers for Binance and Bybit come from the exchanges' own hourly history. Coverage

Coin	1 Jan 2023	30 Jun 2023	Change	Peak	Peak day
BTC	$2.39B	$4.46B	+86.66%	$4.61B	23 Jun 2023
ETH	$1.68B	$1.92B	+14.31%	$2.76B	14 Apr 2023
BCH	$49.5M	$364.2M	+636.35%	$364.2M	30 Jun 2023
XRP	$143.0M	$216.1M	+51.11%	$392.0M	29 Mar 2023
BNB	$223.2M	$207.9M	-6.86%	$239.7M	1 May 2023
LTC	$161.3M	$190.2M	+17.88%	$231.5M	3 Jun 2023
SOL	$140.4M	$137.4M	-2.16%	$241.6M	4 Jan 2023
DOGE	$141.8M	$100.8M	-28.89%	$378.1M	5 Apr 2023
ARB	—	$96.4M	—	$327.1M	18 Apr 2023
PEPE	—	$92.1M	—	$106.7M	23 Jun 2023
All coins	$5.68B	$8.60B	+51.26%	$9.57B	14 Apr 2023

Exchange share of open interest

Exchange	1 Jan 2023	Share	30 Jun 2023	Share	Change
Binance	$4.50B	79.1%	$6.82B	79.3%	+51.67%
Bybit	$1.19B	20.9%	$1.78B	20.7%	+49.73%

Download: coins (CSV) · exchanges (CSV)

2. Funding

mean of each day's OI-weighted 8h rate

Funding averaged BTC 0.0066% per 8h (about 7.2% APR) and ETH 0.0066% per 8h (about 7.3% APR) over the first half of 2023. BTC funding was negative on 7 of 181 days. The most positive liquid coin was SHIB at 11.0% APR; the most negative INJ at -20.8% APR.

Covers Binance for the whole period; Hyperliquid from 12 May 2023. Before this site recorded them live, the rates for Binance and Hyperliquid are the settled funding from the exchanges' own history. Coverage

Coin	Average per 8h	Annualized	Negative days	Days
BTC	0.0066%	7.2%	7	181
ETH	0.0066%	7.3%	6	181
BCH	-0.0097%	-10.7%	118	181
XRP	0.0046%	5.1%	36	181
BNB	-0.0122%	-13.4%	94	181
LTC	0.0078%	8.6%	5	181
SOL	-0.0033%	-3.6%	51	181
DOGE	0.0085%	9.3%	9	181
ARB	0.0075%	8.2%	10	100
PEPE	-0.0033%	-3.6%	18	57

Most positive (average OI ≥ $5M)
Coin	Annualized	Days
SHIB	11.0%	181
FET	10.0%	166
ZEC	10.0%	181
FIL	9.9%	181
ICP	9.7%	181

Most negative (average OI ≥ $5M)
Coin	Annualized	Days
INJ	-20.8%	181
BNB	-13.4%	181
BCH	-10.7%	181
TRX	-9.3%	181
SOL	-3.6%	181

Download: funding (CSV)

3. Liquidations

UTC days · longs / shorts

No liquidations are recorded for the first half of 2023. This site stores liquidations from 27 Sep 2026.

4. Volume

quote volume, USD · perp and spot

No trading volume is stored for the first half of 2023.

5. Hyperliquid

vs the centralized exchanges · HIP-3

Hyperliquid is not recorded for the first half of 2023.

Cite this report

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swolecharts, “Crypto Derivatives Report: H1 2023”, published 1 July 2023, https://swolecharts.com/reports/2023-h1

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Methodology

Days are UTC. Open interest is each perpetual market's average for the day, summed per coin and exchange; HIP-3 markets are left out of the crypto totals.
Funding is each day's open-interest-weighted average of the 8-hour-equivalent rate across exchanges, averaged over the days with data; annualized = rate × 3 × 365.
Live data is what this site recorded from each exchange's public API. Before that, Binance and Bybit open interest come from the exchanges' published hourly history and Binance and Hyperliquid funding from their settled rates; the live record wins wherever both exist.
Liquidations come from the exchanges' public liquidation feeds; some feeds are sampled, so totals are a lower bound. Volume is the quote volume of this site's recorded 1-minute bars.
No third-party aggregator data is used. See coverage for every exchange and data type.

Derivatives report FAQ

What does the derivatives report cover?

Perpetual futures open interest, funding, liquidations and trading volume over one half-year or year, by coin and by exchange, with a section on Hyperliquid. Every number comes from the exchanges' public market-data APIs, recorded by this site or backfilled from the exchanges' own history.

When is a report published?

At 00:00 UTC on the day after the period ends: 1 July for the first half, 1 January for the second half and the full year. Late data can still arrive during the first day, after which the report does not change.

Why do some sections cover fewer exchanges?

Coverage grows over time. Older periods rely on the hourly history Binance and Bybit publish (open interest) and on settled funding from Binance and Hyperliquid; every exchange on the coverage page is included from the day this site started recording it. Each section lists the exchanges it covers, and the open-interest change compares only exchanges recorded at both ends of the period.

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Crypto derivatives report: H1 2023