Bittensor (TAO) perpetual futures
TAO perpetual contracts on 7 reviewed venues.
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Funding rates
Annualized rates across exchanges
AevoDEX
BinanceCEX
BybitCEX
BitgetCEX
MEXCCEX
Open interest
Per-exchange open interest
Binance
HyperliquidBybit
Gate.ioBitget
OKX
KuCoinWhat the TAO data shows
11 of 22 venues quote the same TAO funding rate, +10.95% a year. The exceptions are Kraken at +39.04%, BloFin at +37.23%, GMX at +11.47%, and 8 more.
No venue holds half of the $320.3m in reported TAO open interest. Binance has the largest share, 24.9%, and Hyperliquid is next with 21.5%.
The TAO settlement periods differ: 12 venues settle every 4 hours; 4 venues settle every hour; OKX settles every 8 hours.
CoinGecko ranked TAO number 37 by market value on October 3, 2026, at $3.29b. Its price fell 7.1% in the 7 days before that date. The open interest in this read equals 9.7% of that value.
dYdX quoted TAO at $290.97 and Paradex at $290.54, a gap of 14.7 bps.
- Source: public APIs of 22 venues for TAO, read at October 3, 2026, 11:08 UTC.
- Market value: CoinGecko snapshot of October 3, 2026.
Where to Trade Bittensor (TAO) Perpetual Futures
Fees and leverage limits apply venue-wide; confirm TAO limits with the venue.
Bittensor (TAO) market overview
Bittensor is a decentralized machine learning network where miners compete to produce the best AI models and are rewarded with TAO tokens. TAO perpetual futures have become one of the most actively traded AI-sector derivatives, with high volatility driven by subnet registration activity and AI narrative cycles.
TAO perps offer leveraged exposure to the decentralized AI compute thesis.
Bittensor's TAO rewards machine-learning subnets for useful work, with a fixed-supply emission schedule that the market treats as its defining feature. TAO perps are notable for how strongly they track the AI-sector narrative as a bloc — funding tends to move with the basket, amplified.
Frequently Asked Questions — Bittensor (TAO)
What funding data is available for TAO?
22 venues report a TAO funding rate in this read.
An annualized TAO rate extrapolates one reading and does not predict a return.
What open interest data is available for TAO?
17 venues report positive TAO open interest in this read.
The TAO total leaves out venues outside the read.
Which mapped venue has the lowest recorded TAO taker fee?
DESK lists 0.017% and SynFutures lists 0.020%, the two lowest of 6 mapped TAO maker/taker schedules.
1 TAO venue charges a position fee and is not compared.
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