FAQ

A research desk for markets, projects, and people — plus a derivatives tape that pulls data from 33 exchanges into one screen. Funding rates, OI, liquidations, screener — instead of opening 30 tabs, you open one.

No. Markets, funding, liquidations, and the rest of the public desk are readable without an account. Sign in if you want watchlists, notes, and alerts synced later — today those stay in this browser.

Small team — one person building it, one person trading on it and making sure the numbers are right. More on the Team page.

Yep. Fully responsive — works on phone, tablet, desktop. All the same features.

Join our Telegram community or DM us on X. Feature requests, bug reports, exchange suggestions — we take all of it seriously.

Yes — two layers. (1) /invite is your personal invite link; friends who sign up through it are counted on your dashboard. The link is the same forever, so bookmark /invite and re-use it. (2) /referrals is the paid DexLens Affiliate Program: 20% recurring lifetime commission on every referred subscription, USDT payouts on Solana/Arbitrum/Base ($25 min), 90-day attribution cookie, and the referred friend gets 10% off their subscription forever. The exchange affiliate links you see embedded in spreads / funding / scanner pages (Bybit, MEXC, Hyperliquid, etc.) are separate — they're fee-discount perks for trading on the venues, not part of the DexLens program.

Yes — the public top-20 referrer ranking is at /invite/leaderboard. Entries are anonymized: only the first 4 chars of each invite code are shown, so nobody can guess your full link from the rankings. Sorted by verified referrals first, then sign-ups as a tiebreaker. Pages cache for 5 minutes — your rank updates on the next refresh after a friend verifies.

Funding rates, open interest, liquidations, funding/price/spot arbitrage, spread history, heatmaps (funding, OI, liquidation, market), a screener (RSI, volume, 24h change), CVD, options data (max pain, put/call, IV smile), basis tracking, long/short ratios, whale alerts, stablecoin flows, token unlocks, order flow, exchange reserves, correlation analysis, and news. We keep adding stuff.

Currently 33: Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, MEXC, Blofin, Kraken, BingX, Phemex, Bitunix, Hyperliquid, dYdX, Aster, Lighter, Aevo, GMX, KuCoin, Deribit, HTX, Bitfinex, WhiteBIT, Coinbase, CoinEx, gTrade, Extended, Variational, BitMEX, Gate.io, edgeX, Nado, Backpack, Orderly, Paradex. We add new ones regularly — both CEX and DEX.

We currently track Hyperliquid, dYdX, Aster, Lighter, Aevo, GMX, gTrade, Extended, Variational, edgeX, Nado, Backpack, Orderly, Paradex. Each has its own funding mechanism and settlement schedule, all normalized for easy comparison.

Most data refreshes every 30–60 seconds. CVD updates every 15 seconds. Options data every 60 seconds. The timestamp on each page shows when data was last fetched.

The Compare page shows funding for the same coin across every exchange side-by-side. The Arbitrage section on the funding page surfaces the biggest rate differentials automatically.

The Screener lets you filter coins by RSI, 24h volume, 24h price change, and open interest change. You can combine multiple filters to find coins that match specific criteria — for example, high RSI with rising OI and spiking volume.

/today is a shareable one-page snapshot of what is moving the market right now: key prices with 24h change, Fear & Greed sentiment, BTC dominance, 24h liquidation totals, the highest and lowest funding rates, OI surges and dumps, top movers, and up to 3 algorithmic trade ideas. Auto-refreshes every 5 minutes. The Copy Text button generates a Telegram-ready summary.

/whales shows real-time fills above your chosen size threshold ($50K to $1M+) from Hyperliquid (live WebSocket) and dYdX (5-second poll). Filter by coin (BTC, ETH, SOL, and 11 others) and minimum trade size. The buy/sell bar updates in real time so you can read flow bias at a glance. No login required.

Yes. The Alerts page supports conditions for price, funding rate, open interest, and 24h change. You define the threshold and direction, and you get notified when the condition is met.

Yes — /watch lets you paste any Hyperliquid or gTrade address and get Telegram pings the moment they open, close, resize, get close to liq, take realized PnL, or pay funding. Six trigger types per wallet, each individually toggleable. Limits depend on your tier (5 Free / 30 Trader / 200 Pro / ∞ Whale — see /pricing). Polled every 60 seconds via our snapshot cron. The "Test ping" button verifies your Telegram link before any real event fires.

Yes — a free account is required to get your API key (sign up at /login, then generate a key at /account/api-keys). The free tier covers everything: tickers, funding, OI, liquidations, arbitrage, spreads, klines, options. Every fee-aware endpoint returns the canonical fee schedule with a versioned identifier so partners can verify the assumption baked into net-PnL calculations. Rate limits scale with tier: 100 req/min (Free), 200 (Trader), 600 (Pro), unlimited (Whale). Full reference and OpenAPI 3.1 spec at /developers/docs.

Two paths. (1) /positions is the cross-venue tracker — connect read-only CEX API keys (Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, MEXC, Blofin) or DEX wallet addresses (Hyperliquid, GMX, gTrade, Lighter, etc.) at /account/connections, and /positions shows every open position in one place with live mark price, P&L, funding cost-of-carry, liquidation distance, and health score. AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest. (2) /portfolio is the manual-entry alternative — add positions by hand, P&L tracked in your browser; useful for hypothetical / paper trades or venues we don't yet integrate.

It’s a periodic payment between longs and shorts on perp contracts that keeps the perp price close to spot. Positive rate = longs pay shorts (market is bullish/overleveraged long). Negative = shorts pay longs. Most exchanges settle every 8 hours, some hourly.

All rates are converted to an 8-hour basis for cross-venue comparison. Venues settle on different cadences: 1h (Hyperliquid, dYdX, Aevo, Coinbase, GMX, Extended, Lighter, edgeX, Nado, Backpack), 4h (Kraken), 8h (most CEX + 4 DEX — Binance / Bybit / OKX / Bitget / Blofin / MEXC / BingX / Phemex / KuCoin / Deribit / HTX / Bitfinex / WhiteBIT / CoinEx / Gate.io / BitMEX / Aster / gTrade / Orderly / Paradex). Bitunix and Variational vary per market — those carry their actual fundingIntervalHours in the API. Each row also includes its native fundingInterval so you can see the unconverted source rate if you need it.

OI is the total number of open derivative contracts. If OI is rising while price goes up, new money is coming in long. If OI drops, positions are closing. It’s one of the best signals for gauging market conviction.

When a leveraged position loses enough that the exchange force-closes it. Big liquidation cascades can move price fast — that’s why traders watch them. Our liquidation page shows them in real-time across all exchanges.

CVD tracks the net difference between buying and selling volume over time. A rising CVD means more aggressive buying pressure; a falling CVD means more selling pressure. It helps you see whether price moves are backed by real demand or just low-liquidity wicks.

Basis shows the premium or discount of futures prices relative to spot. A positive basis means futures trade above spot (contango), which is typical in bullish markets. A negative basis (backwardation) often signals bearish sentiment or high demand for shorts.

Yes. We have a public API with real-time funding rates, open interest, and arbitrage data. Generate API keys in the Developer Dashboard at /developers.

By default, everything is stored locally in your browser using localStorage. If you create an account, your watchlist and preferences sync to our servers so they persist across devices. If you clear your browser data without an account, those settings will be reset.