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I want to know the annualized carry cost and whether Hyperliquid and Kraken agree on direction."},{"title":"Crowding scan across all five assets","prompt":"Scan all five major crypto perps — BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and ADA — and tell me which ones are showing LONG_CROWDED or SHORT_CROWDED so I can avoid taking a position against the herd."},{"title":"Funding rate arbitrage opportunity check","prompt":"What are the funding rates right now on SOL perpetuals across Kraken Futures and Hyperliquid? I'm looking for any divergence between the two venues I could exploit."}],"resultDescription":"A JSON object keyed by symbol (e.g. BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA), each containing per-venue funding rates, mark price, index price, open interest, and 24h volume from Kraken Futures and Hyperliquid, plus a consensus block with 8h funding, annualized funding rate, who-pays-whom direction, and a crowding label (LONG_CROWDED, SHORT_CROWDED, or BALANCED). Also includes a fetched_at timestamp and a venue_errors array for any partial failures. Data is cached for 5 minutes.","failureModes":["Venue-specific outage: one exchange returns an error, reflected in venue_errors array while other venue data is still returned","Symbol not found: if an invalid symbol string is passed in the query param, response may be empty or error","Stale data: cache is up to 5 minutes old; real-time precision is not guaranteed","Network timeout: upstream exchange APIs may occasionally be slow or unavailable","Rate limiting or payment failure: x402 payment of $0.02 USDC required per call; missing payment returns 402"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need a multi-venue consensus view of perpetual futures funding rates with crowding analysis, rather than querying a single exchange directly. It is especially valuable when assessing carry costs before entering leveraged positions or when screening for crowded market conditions across BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and ADA simultaneously. The 5-minute cache makes it suitable for near-real-time decisioning without excessive cost.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-10-10T18:32:59.157Z","isFirstParty":false,"canonicalSlug":"kronos-forgemesh-perpetual-futures-funding-rates-55f8acb8"}