# TAOUSDT: Recorded Market State

Live TAOUSDT price, funding rate and open interest, plus 90 days of funding history and the ByKaranteli derivatives pressure score.

Source: https://bykaranteli.com/symbols/TAOUSDT · attribute to ByKaranteli and quote the timestamp.
Snapshot taken 2026-10-18T07:00:29.000Z.

## Live market

Binance USDT-M perpetual, read 2026-10-18 07:00 UTC.

| Mark Price (USD) | Index Price (USD) | Funding Rate (% per interval) | Basis (%) |
| ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 267.820 | 267.924 | +0.0030 | -0.039 |

## Derivatives pressure

Computed 2026-10-18 06:58 UTC. Score is 0 to 100; the side is the one adding pressure.

| Score | Side | Regime | OI 1h (%) | OI 4h (%) | OI 24h (%) | Funding (%) | Basis (%) |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 1 | NEUTRAL | Balanced · low derivatives stress | +0.02 | +0.59 | +0.3 | +0.003 | -0.04 |

## TAOUSDT Funding Rate History

540 settlements over the last 90 days, average +0.0035% per settlement. Positive funding means longs pay shorts.

| Settlement window (UTC) | Settlements | Avg funding (%) | Positive share (%) |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 00:00 | 90 | +0.0037 | 89 |
| 04:00 | 90 | +0.0036 | 92 |
| 08:00 | 90 | +0.0033 | 88 |
| 12:00 | 90 | +0.0035 | 89 |
| 16:00 | 90 | +0.0032 | 84 |
| 20:00 | 90 | +0.0035 | 91 |

## Perp vs index basis · 30d

Daily closes, mark against index. Average -0.027%, high +0.103%, low -0.099%.

| Date (UTC) | Mark close (USD) | Index close (USD) | Basis (%) |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-09-19 | 263.793 | 263.719 | +0.028 |
| 2026-09-20 | 261.683 | 261.722 | -0.015 |
| 2026-09-21 | 319.573 | 319.246 | +0.103 |
| 2026-09-22 | 315.190 | 314.921 | +0.086 |
| 2026-09-23 | 287.117 | 287.230 | -0.039 |
| 2026-09-24 | 296.223 | 296.363 | -0.047 |
| 2026-09-25 | 317.763 | 317.856 | -0.029 |
| 2026-09-26 | 321.021 | 321.269 | -0.077 |
| 2026-09-27 | 319.797 | 319.797 | +0.000 |
| 2026-09-28 | 308.070 | 308.164 | -0.030 |
| 2026-09-29 | 300.520 | 300.663 | -0.048 |
| 2026-09-30 | 300.799 | 300.919 | -0.040 |
| 2026-10-01 | 303.216 | 303.312 | -0.032 |
| 2026-10-02 | 291.970 | 292.258 | -0.099 |
| 2026-10-03 | 307.162 | 307.198 | -0.011 |
| 2026-10-04 | 304.495 | 304.566 | -0.023 |
| 2026-10-05 | 305.800 | 305.784 | +0.005 |
| 2026-10-06 | 308.883 | 308.931 | -0.016 |
| 2026-10-07 | 291.300 | 291.518 | -0.075 |
| 2026-10-08 | 268.478 | 268.621 | -0.053 |
| 2026-10-09 | 274.936 | 275.158 | -0.081 |
| 2026-10-10 | 284.910 | 285.023 | -0.040 |
| 2026-10-11 | 295.220 | 295.320 | -0.034 |
| 2026-10-12 | 271.710 | 271.960 | -0.092 |
| 2026-10-13 | 277.889 | 277.889 | -0.000 |
| 2026-10-14 | 270.776 | 270.896 | -0.044 |
| 2026-10-15 | 278.939 | 279.053 | -0.041 |
| 2026-10-16 | 275.904 | 275.916 | -0.004 |
| 2026-10-17 | 269.260 | 269.411 | -0.056 |
| 2026-10-18 | 269.014 | 269.063 | -0.018 |

## Market Profile

Daily TPO profile from our own one-minute bars of the Binance USDT-M perpetual, closed UTC days up to 2026-10-17: 30-minute periods, buckets of 0.05% of the day's open, value area 70% of the TPO marks, initial balance the first hour UTC. Recorded since 2026-08-21; the page shows the last 30 days.

| Date (UTC) | POC (USD) | VAL (USD) | VAH (USD) | IB low (USD) | IB high (USD) | Volume POC (USD) | Close (USD) |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-10-17 | 274.925 | 268.509 | 276.374 | 273.340 | 275.990 | 268.992 | 269.260 |
| 2026-10-16 | 288.065 | 278.512 | 290.924 | 278.650 | 283.320 | 287.368 | 275.960 |
| 2026-10-15 | 260.994 | 257.137 | 270.535 | 268.030 | 271.620 | 261.806 | 278.930 |
| 2026-10-14 | 270.356 | 266.396 | 279.042 | 277.680 | 282.730 | 269.523 | 270.680 |
| 2026-10-13 | 277.338 | 273.738 | 282.568 | 262.000 | 272.100 | 279.104 | 277.930 |

Naked points of control: POCs of the last 60 recorded days that no later closed day has traded through (today is not compared).

| Date (UTC) | POC (USD) | From last close (%) |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-10-16 | 288.065 | +6.98 |
| 2026-10-15 | 260.994 | -3.07 |
| 2026-10-12 | 294.271 | +9.29 |
| 2026-09-27 | 328.340 | +21.94 |
| 2026-09-20 | 252.268 | -6.31 |
| 2026-09-17 | 227.472 | -15.52 |
| 2026-09-16 | 217.647 | -19.17 |

## After a liquidation sweep

What TAO's price did in the hours after each of the four map patterns, from our own hourly archive since 2026-08-06; a pattern with fewer than 30 events shows no number.

| Pattern | Events | Median move 1h | Median move 4h | Median move 24h | Base rate | Continued | Reverted in 4h |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Cluster within reach | 284 | 0.56% (any hour 0.56%) | 1.02% (any hour 1.05%) | 2.87% (any hour 3.27%) | 51.0% | 49.4% (median -0.05%) | · |
| Lopsided fuel | 577 | 0.56% (any hour 0.56%) | 1.08% (any hour 1.05%) | 3.26% (any hour 3.27%) | 51.0% | 43.9% (median -0.21%) | · |
| Thin side | 39 | 0.69% (any hour 0.56%) | 1.14% (any hour 1.05%) | 3.14% (any hour 3.27%) | 51.0% | 62.5% (median +0.53%) | · |
| Swept level | 255 | 0.74% (any hour 0.56%) | 1.13% (any hour 1.05%) | 3.13% (any hour 3.27%) | 51.0% | 48.6% (median -0.09%) | 41.7% |

- Median move: the median size of the price change 1, 4 and 24 hours after the pattern, either direction; below it, the same median over every hour of the same coins.
- Continued: the share of events in which the price kept going the way the pattern points over 4 hours; below it, the median 4 hour move in that direction (+ is the pattern's way).
- Base rate: the share of all hours after which the price rose over the next 4 hours, the coin flip to hold Continued against.
- Reverted in 4h: swept levels only, the share of events with the price back across the level 4 hours later.
- A pattern with fewer than 30 events shows no number; · marks a value without data.

155,124 map frames of 201 coins since 2026-08-06; computed 2026-10-18 02:55 UTC. A frame is written each hour and reads the price about 40 minutes into the hour; a move is the change in the perpetual's last price from one frame to a later one.

Open the TAO liquidation map: /liqmap/tao

Not investment advice. TAOUSDT data reflects what our recorders captured for that instrument only. Market data is not a forecast, and past readings do not guarantee future prices.

## Related

- https://bykaranteli.com/symbols/TAOUSDT/markets
- https://bykaranteli.com/symbols/TAOUSDT/funding
- https://bykaranteli.com/liqmap/tao
- https://bykaranteli.com/pressure
- https://bykaranteli.com/symbols

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