
Funding rate: what it is, who pays, and what extremes mean
The small payment that keeps a perpetual future close to spot: who pays it, how it is set, what it costs you, and why an extreme reading is about positioning, not direction.
Short definitions of the crypto terms you see on the channel, each with a real example.

The small payment that keeps a perpetual future close to spot: who pays it, how it is set, what it costs you, and why an extreme reading is about positioning, not direction.

A liquidation is the exchange closing your leveraged position because your margin ran out. Here is where the line sits, what moves it, and how one forced sale turns into many.

A lock keeps the pool in place until a date; a burn keeps it there for good. Neither stops a fresh mint, a sell block or a large holder selling. Here is how to read both.

Locked tokens, cliffs and monthly releases: how a vesting schedule moves supply into circulation, how to look up the next unlock, and why an unlock is not automatically a sale.