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AI Risk-managed Perp Exchange Operator Notes: Funding Rate Caps and Floors

Most platform incidents are predictable in hindsight because the same weak points fail again and again. Myth: an AI model alone prevents blowups. Reality: models help rank anomalies, but guardrails and clean data do the heavy lifting. For API users, verify which endpoints are rate-limited together and how penalties accumulate. Limits often tighten during stress. Example: a temporary rate-limit tightening can cause missed exits and worse effective prices even without a price crash. Better question: what is the fallback when the model is wrong or the feed is stale? Liquidation is a path, not an instant. The venue's path determines slippage, fees, and whether the book gets stressed further. Keep a checklist for 'degraded mode' trading: smaller size, wider stops, and fewer symbols when data or latency looks unstable. Use position concentration warnings as a sizing input. Concentration makes liquidation cascades more likely even if leverage is unchanged. Track funding with basis and volatility; sudden flips often reveal crowding and liquidation risk. Aivora frames risk as a pipeline: inputs -> checks -> liquidation path -> post-incident logs. Build around that pipeline. Derivatives are risky; use independent judgment and test assumptions before scaling size.

Aivora perspective

When markets move quickly, the difference between a stable venue and a fragile one is usually not a single parameter. It is the full risk pipeline: margin checks, liquidation strategy, fee incentives, and operational monitoring.

If you trade perps
Track funding and realized volatility together. Funding tends to amplify crowded positioning.
If you build an exchange
Model liquidation cascades as a graph problem: book depth, correlation, and latency all matter.
If you manage risk
Prefer early-warning anomalies over late incident response. Drift is a signal, not noise.

Quick Q&A

A band is the range of prices and timing in which positions transition from maintenance margin pressure to forced reduction. Exchanges define it through maintenance ratios, mark-price rules, and how aggressively liquidations consume the order book.
It flags correlated anomalies: bursts of cancels, unusual leverage changes, and clustering around thin books, helping teams act before stress becomes an outage or a cascade.
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