How to leverage Ethereum
ETH is Ethereum token.
The ETH is a volatile asset, therefore can be benefited in trading by usage of leverage.
Derivatives serving as perpetuals and future contracts are accessible on many crypto venues. Trading position can be leveraged even 125 times.
Ethereum Perpetual Future Contracts
For the purpose of leveraging your position, you can benefit from perpetual swaps.
| Exchange | Symbol | Premium (-) Discount (+) |
Spread | Funding Rate | Open Intrest | 24h Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deepcoin (Derivatives) | ETHUSDT | 0.049 | 0.02 | 0.02096 | 3,073,155,762 | 7,332,575,198 |
| FTX (Derivatives) | ETH-PERP | 0.021 | 0.02 | -0.01200 | 1,692,414,244 | 1,888,055,445 |
| Binance (Futures) | ETHUSDT | 0.110 | 0.01 | 0.00722 | 1,385,518,011 | 7,646,594,377 |
| MEXC Global (Futures) | ETH_USDT | 0.044 | 0.01 | 0.00280 | 1,042,608,613 | 1,110,283,133 |
| MXC (Futures) | ETH_USDT | -0.003 | 0.02 | 0.00827 | 985,385,032 | 150,738,726 |
| C-Trade | ETHUSDT | 0.061 | 0.02 | 0.00000 | 715,488,424 | 18,999,732 |
| Bybit (Futures) | ETHUSDT | 0.020 | 0.01 | 0.00650 | 506,469,040 | 1,296,628,470 |
| Gate.io (Futures) | ETH_USDT | 0.040 | 0.02 | 0.00620 | 488,061,754 | 674,998,431 |
| Bybit | ETHUSDT | 0.049 | 0.01 | 0.00140 | 458,515,321 | 3,066,846,994 |
| C-Trade | ETHUSD | 0.057 | 0.01 | 0.01000 | 386,757,482 | 7,513,526 |
| BTCEX (Futures) | ETH-31MAR23 | 0.478 | 0.01 | -0.00550 | 363,044,107 | 48,973,150 |
| BTCEX (Futures) | ETH-30DEC22 | 0.379 | 0.01 | -0.00550 | 363,044,107 | 42,653,068 |
| Phemex (Futures) | ETHUSD | 0.074 | 0.04 | 0.01000 | 347,759,281 | 1,826,085,639 |
| AAX Futures | ETHUSDTFP | 0.006 | 0.08 | 0.02037 | 340,709,051 | 476,363,936 |
| BTCC Futures | ETHUSDT | 0.037 | 0.08 | 0.00000 | 334,429,163 | 377,604,584 |
| BTCEX (Futures) | ETH-30SEP22 | 0.088 | 0.04 | -0.00540 | 312,936,114 | 53,456,052 |
| OKEx (Futures) | ETH-USDT-SWAP | -0.055 | 0.01 | 0.01217 | 254,856,013 | 6,288,747,772 |
| Deribit | ETH-PERPETUAL | 0.058 | 0.01 | -0.00930 | 249,214,725 | 130,172,898 |
| Bybit | ETHUSD | 0.029 | 0.01 | 0.01000 | 242,232,653 | 566,743,640 |
| Bybit (Futures) | ETHUSD | 0.042 | 0.01 | 0.01000 | 220,696,459 | 174,106,870 |
| Bitfinex (Futures) | TETHF0:USTF0 | 0.808 | 0.21 | -0.25000 | 217,744,062 | 18,656,998 |
| MyCoinStory | ETHUSDT_QUANTO_PERP | -0.157 | 0.00 | 0.04260 | 211,528,234 | 2,231,119 |
| Prime XBT | ETH/USD | 0.000 | 0.08 | 0.00000 | 191,770,500 | 81,947,968 |
| Bitrue (Futures) | ETH-USDT | 0.145 | 0.01 | 0.00787 | 190,316,561 | 1,628,157,427 |
| Binance (Futures) | ETHUSD_PERP | 0.052 | 0.01 | 0.00150 | 180,194,520 | 1,339,786,362 |
| MXC (Futures) | ETH_USD | 0.136 | 0.02 | 0.02000 | 179,583,950 | 6,033 |
| BingX (Futures) | ETH-USDT | 0.000 | 0.02 | -0.01000 | 159,627,753 | 491,478,976 |
| OKEx (Futures) | ETH-USD-SWAP | -0.031 | 0.01 | -0.02141 | 151,636,920 | 546,197,796 |
| BTCEX (Futures) | ETH-24JUN22 | 0.369 | 0.04 | 0.01000 | 140,877,096 | 66,467,431 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-PERP | 0.013 | 0.01 | -0.00050 | 132,078,755 | 132,078,755 |
| BitMEX | ETHUSD | -0.105 | 0.01 | 0.08720 | 115,519,960 | 70,990,951 |
| BitZ (Futures) | 102 | 0.039 | 0.12 | 0.00000 | 94,644,211 | 283,991,832 |
| ZBG Futures | ETH_USDT | 0.057 | 0.03 | -0.01359 | 93,323,046 | 532,011 |
| Prime XBT | ETH/BTC | 0.000 | 0.15 | 0.00000 | 82,951,500 | 1,998,748 |
| Hopex | ETHUSDT | -0.005 | 0.00 | 0.00000 | 79,370,285 | 499,938,515 |
| dYdX Perpetual | ETH-USD | 0.008 | 0.02 | -0.00037 | 68,263,592 | 244,562,826 |
| MCS | ETHUSDT_QUANTO_PERP | -0.446 | 0.07 | 0.01000 | 65,367,972 | 604,755 |
| Bitget Futures | CMT_ETHUSDT | 0.011 | 0.01 | 0.00022 | 55,647,764 | 238,318,674 |
| Bitmart Futures | 2 | 0.096 | 0.01 | 0.00295 | 42,807,823 | 326,963,232 |
| Huobi Futures | ETH-USDT | 0.068 | 0.01 | -0.00461 | 34,688,746 | 151,246,145 |
| BTSE (Futures) | ETHPFC | 0.039 | 0.08 | 0.00000 | 24,044,792 | 64,412,315 |
| Bitfinex (Futures) | ETHF0:USTF0 | -0.048 | 0.06 | 0.00000 | 24,029,008 | 7,124,971 |
| BitZ (Futures) | ETH_USDT_BZ | 0.090 | 0.14 | 0.00000 | 21,528,099 | 1,004,554,589 |
| Huobi Futures | ETH-USD | 0.077 | 0.01 | -0.00004 | 19,645,610 | 35,730,861 |
| Perpetual protocol | ETH_USDC | 0.000 | 0.00 | -0.02000 | 17,280,873 | 0 |
| Kraken (Futures) | PI_ETHUSD | -0.091 | 0.06 | 0.00156 | 11,343,560 | 16,955,089 |
| Bitforex (Futures) | SWAP-USD-ETH | 0.081 | 0.01 | -0.01988 | 9,019,682 | 868,483,482 |
| Phemex | ETHUSD | -0.173 | 0.11 | 0.07048 | 6,296,398 | 27,182,027 |
| Deribit | ETH_USDC-PERPETUAL | 0.044 | 0.02 | -0.00910 | 5,438,631 | 7,164,064 |
| WOO Network (Futures) | PERP_ETH_USDT | -0.003 | 0.02 | 0.00077 | 4,886,470 | 34,166,706 |
| CoinEx (Futures) | ETH-USDT | 0.092 | 0.01 | 0.00068 | 4,871,855 | 45,443,674 |
| BitZ (Futures) | 2 | 0.002 | 0.11 | 0.00000 | 2,457,740 | 37,688,760 |
| AscendEX (BitMax) (Futures) | ETH-PERP | -0.168 | 0.00 | 0.00778 | 1,853,874 | 987,480 |
| Bitget Futures | ETHUSD | 0.012 | 0.01 | 0.00828 | 1,739,689 | 3,036,942 |
| MEXC Global (Futures) | ETH_USD | 0.041 | 0.01 | -0.01350 | 1,706,400 | 1,037,786 |
| Poloniex Futures | ETHUSDTPERP | 0.029 | 0.04 | 0.00000 | 1,579,969 | 1,354,250 |
| Drift Protocol | ETH-PERP | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.12676 | 1,550,034 | 0 |
| BitZ (Futures) | ETH_USDT | -0.001 | 0.02 | 0.00000 | 953,638 | 4,506,852 |
| BitZ (Futures) | 202 | 0.056 | 0.14 | 0.00000 | 947,450 | 151,945,180 |
| ZB (Derivatives) | ETH_USDT | 0.040 | 0.03 | -0.01680 | 906,341 | 1,223,296,478 |
| Bit.com | ETH-PERPETUAL | -0.066 | 0.01 | 0.00000 | 816,811 | 2,844,145 |
| Mango Markets (Derivatives) | ETH-PERP | -0.261 | 0.21 | 0.00052 | 729,712 | 1,310,302 |
| BigONE Futures | ETHUSDT | 0.073 | 0.08 | 0.00949 | 540,484 | 129,732,735 |
| Bit.com (Futures) | ETH-PERPETUAL | 0.002 | 0.02 | 0.00000 | 505,443 | 113,308 |
| Hopex | ETHUSD | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00000 | 502,250 | 21,451 |
| CoinEx (Futures) | ETH-USD | 0.048 | 0.01 | 0.06815 | 452,842 | 305,497 |
| Gate.io (Futures) | ETH_USD | -0.506 | 0.08 | 0.01000 | 293,693 | 1,042,093 |
| BaseFEX | ETHUSDT | 0.193 | 0.11 | 0.01000 | 293,344 | 2,867,590 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-220325 | 0.085 | 0.09 | 0.00000 | 200,695 | 187,350 |
| Binance (Futures) | ETHBUSD | 0.063 | 0.01 | -0.00067 | 182,010 | 1,429,090,136 |
| ZB (Derivatives) | ETH_QC | -0.075 | 0.11 | 0.01000 | 163,121 | 16,494,457 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-220624 | -0.045 | 0.06 | 0.00000 | 157,161 | 1,840,104 |
| BigONE Futures | ETHUSD | -0.020 | 0.08 | 0.01000 | 117,527 | 8,680,511 |
| BaseFEX | ETHXBT | -1.643 | 3.08 | 0.01000 | 80,183 | 789,729 |
| Bit.com (Futures) | ETH-USDT-PERPETUAL | -0.064 | 0.09 | 0.00000 | 70,871 | 26,439,934 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-220930 | -1.053 | 0.04 | 0.00000 | 67,170 | 47,348 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-220225 | 0.009 | 0.19 | 0.00000 | 63,690 | 59,868 |
| MCDEX (Arbitrum) | ETH-USDC | -1.512 | 0.64 | -0.01611 | 52,386 | 103 |
| BitZ (Futures) | ETH_USD | -0.001 | 0.10 | 0.00000 | 52,056 | 304,510 |
| MCDEX (BSC) | ETH-BUSD | 0.000 | 0.74 | 0.02124 | 48,636 | 370 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-211231 | 0.018 | 0.04 | 0.00000 | 42,287 | 15,009 |
| CoinFLEX (Futures) | ETH-USD-SWAP-LIN | 0.000 | 0.10 | 0.00000 | 8,318 | 12,960 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-220429 | -0.029 | 0.10 | 0.00000 | 3,827 | 3,911 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-220128 | 0.118 | 0.20 | 0.00000 | 3,821 | 4,219 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-220729 | -0.410 | 0.09 | 0.00000 | 2,159 | 1,398 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-220527 | -0.147 | 0.07 | 0.00000 | 2,152 | 1,851 |
| ACDX Futures | ETH-PERP | -4.708 | 0.06 | 0.00000 | 705 | 355,876 |
| AAX Futures | ETHUSDFP | -0.423 | 0.03 | 0.01051 | 212 | 203 |
| MCDEX (BSC) | USD-ETH | 0.594 | 0.02 | 0.00039 | 89 | 1 |
| BTCEX (Futures) | ETH-USDT-PERPETUAL | -0.020 | 0.01 | -0.00550 | 0 | 3,345,489,246 |
| CoinTiger (Futures) | ETHUSDT | 0.082 | 0.01 | 0.00893 | 0 | 771,763,372 |
| Deepcoin (Derivatives) | ETHUSD | 0.054 | 0.06 | 0.01982 | 0 | 213,088,815 |
| Biki (Futures) | 4 | -4.599 | 0.02 | -0.03451 | 0 | 208,609,701 |
| Stormgain Futures | ETH-PERPUSDT | 0.000 | 0.11 | 0.00400 | 0 | 206,967,095 |
| BTCEX (Futures) | ETH-25MAR22 | -0.282 | 0.02 | 0.01000 | 0 | 117,199,246 |
| Bitget Futures | CMT_ETHSUSDT | 0.034 | 0.12 | -0.00016 | 0 | 116,738,791 |
| BTCMEX | ETHUSDT | 0.055 | 0.00 | 0.01000 | 0 | 43,663,073 |
| Injective Exchange (Futures) | ETH/USDT PERP | -3.321 | 0.09 | 0.00000 | 0 | 31,952,646 |
| Binance (Futures) | ETHUSDT_210326 | -5.274 | 0.25 | 0.00000 | 0 | 17,670,699 |
| GMO Japan (Futures) | ETH_JPY | 0.000 | 0.08 | 0.00000 | 0 | 9,235,889 |
| ZBG Futures | ETH_USD-R | 0.126 | 0.01 | -0.03722 | 0 | 6,429,425 |
| HBTC (Futures) | ETH-SWAP | 0.457 | 0.10 | -0.03984 | 0 | 5,631,154 |
| Bitfinex (Futures) | ETHF0:BTCF0 | -0.020 | 0.02 | 0.00000 | 0 | 4,715,797 |
| Perpetual Protocol | ETH_USD | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00004 | 0 | 4,626,358 |
| Delta Exchange | ETHUSDT | -0.228 | 0.01 | 0.08250 | 0 | 4,483,123 |
| Crypto.com (Futures) | ETHUSD-PERP | 0.000 | 0.05 | 0.00000 | 0 | 3,644,318 |
| Bitget Futures | ETHPERP_CMCBL | 0.072 | 0.01 | -0.01000 | 0 | 3,128,678 |
| HitBTC (Derivatives) | ETHUSDT_PERP | 0.053 | 0.02 | 0.01000 | 0 | 3,031,237 |
| ZBG Futures | ETH_USD-R20190927 | 0.000 | 0.19 | 0.00000 | 0 | 2,922,578 |
| MCDEX | 00001 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00000 | 0 | 1,822,608 |
| Bibox (Futures) | 4ETH_USDT | 0.000 | 0.02 | 0.00000 | 0 | 1,616,416 |
| Delta Exchange | ETHBTC | -0.223 | 0.02 | 0.01000 | 0 | 1,295,656 |
| Helix (Futures) | ETH/USDT PERP | 0.028 | 0.05 | 0.00150 | 0 | 1,030,935 |
| Bitfinex (Futures) | TETHF0:BTCF0 | 0.559 | 0.11 | -0.25000 | 0 | 779,083 |
| HBTC (Futures) | ETH-SWAP-USDT | 0.069 | 1.73 | 0.05189 | 0 | 663,148 |
| MCDEX | ETH-USDC | 0.000 | 0.24 | 0.15450 | 0 | 502,913 |
| MCDEX | RQBAP | 0.112 | 0.18 | 0.03741 | 0 | 449,127 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-210924 | 0.035 | 0.08 | 0.00000 | 0 | 391,068 |
| Bitmart Futures | 32896 | 0.055 | 0.02 | 0.04000 | 0 | 156,653 |
| MCDEX | ETH-PERP | -6.764 | 0.29 | -0.03509 | 0 | 110,000 |
| Bitfinex (Futures) | ETHF0:EUTF0 | -0.281 | 0.37 | 0.00000 | 0 | 49,833 |
| BHEX (Futures) | ETH-SWAP-USDT | -0.026 | 0.15 | -0.00061 | 0 | 42,901 |
| BHEX (Futures) | ETH-SWAP | -0.012 | 0.03 | 0.03051 | 0 | 38,643 |
| Crypto.com Exchange (Futures) | ETHUSD-211126 | 0.037 | 0.09 | 0.00000 | 0 | 37,403 |
| Helix (Futures) | ETH/USDT 19SEP22 | -0.012 | 0.08 | 0.00000 | 0 | 29,716 |
| Injective Pro (Futures) | ETH/USDT PERP | 1.358 | 0.01 | 0.00040 | 0 | 25,513 |
| Alpha5 | ETHUSDT | -4.824 | 0.20 | -0.00077 | 0 | 11,274 |
| Binance JEX (Futures) | ETHUSDT | 1.791 | 0.21 | 0.01000 | 0 | 11,130 |
| Stormgain Futures | ETH-PERPBTC | 0.000 | 0.31 | 0.00400 | 0 | 3,925 |
| DueDEX | ETHUSDT | -0.979 | 0.00 | 0.01000 | 0 | 636 |
| Futureswap | ETH-USD | 0.959 | 0.00 | 0.00000 | 0 | 231 |
| MCDEX (BSC) | ETH-USX | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00000 | 0 | 170 |
| EQONEX (Perpetual) | 29 | -1.306 | 34.88 | -5.88169 | 0 | 16 |
| MCDEX | 10017 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00000 | 0 | 8 |
| Biki (Futures) | 5 | -0.187 | 0.11 | 0.00526 | 0 | 2 |
| MCDEX | 10015 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00000 | 0 | 0 |
| Powertrade (Derivatives) | ETH-USD-PERPETUAL | 0.782 | 0.00 | 174,247.00000 | 0 | 0 |
| Stormgain Futures | ETH-PERPUSDC | NaN | 0.19 | 0.00400 | 0 | 0 |
| Stormgain Futures | ETH-PERPDAI | NaN | 0.11 | 0.00400 | 0 | 0 |
Leveraging by Futures
Furthermore, future contracts can be used to leverage position.
| Exchange | Symbol | Premium (-) Discount (+) |
Spread | Open Intrest | 24h Volume | Expiry Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTCC Futures | ETH-QUARTERLY | 0.023 | 0.09 | 1,143,747,738 | 1,291,534,555 | 31/3/2023 |
| BTCC Futures | ETH-WEEKLY | 0.027 | 0.08 | 1,066,837,092 | 1,204,676,968 | 7/10/2022 |
| BTCC Futures | ETH-DAILY | 0.033 | 0.09 | 431,413,621 | 487,132,002 | 4/10/2022 |
| OKX (Futures) | ETH-USD-221230 | 0.276 | 0.02 | 176,938,540 | 74,922,017 | 30/12/2022 |
| Binance (Futures) | ETHUSD_221230 | 0.134 | 0.01 | 94,184,640 | 68,593,841 | 30/12/2022 |
| OKX (Futures) | ETH-USDT-221230 | 0.338 | 0.01 | 3,825,390 | 51,309,481 | 30/12/2022 |
| OKX (Futures) | ETH-USDT-221007 | 0.074 | 0.03 | 478,330 | 40,657,507 | 7/10/2022 |
| FTX (Derivatives) | ETH-1230 | 0.599 | 0.02 | 262,885,897 | 40,259,564 | 30/12/2022 |
| Binance (Futures) | ETHUSD_230331 | 0.381 | 0.01 | 7,540,960 | 25,845,111 | 31/3/2023 |
| OKX (Futures) | ETH-USDT-221014 | 0.082 | 0.02 | 205,540 | 25,222,293 | 14/10/2022 |
| OKX (Futures) | ETH-USD-230331 | 0.537 | 0.02 | 39,099,660 | 23,964,224 | 31/3/2023 |
| OKX (Futures) | ETH-USDT-230331 | 0.532 | 0.01 | 653,860 | 23,671,363 | 31/3/2023 |
| OKX (Futures) | ETH-USD-221007 | 0.077 | 0.02 | 8,310,540 | 18,684,209 | 7/10/2022 |
| Huobi Futures | ETH_CQ | 0.315 | 0.01 | 15,644,970 | 18,468,217 | 30/12/2022 |
| Deribit | ETH-30DEC22 | 0.366 | 0.04 | 90,514,170 | 14,807,000 | 30/12/2022 |
| OKX (Futures) | ETH-USD-221014 | 0.145 | 0.03 | 6,138,330 | 9,073,471 | 14/10/2022 |
| FTX (Derivatives) | ETH-0331 | 0.883 | 0.02 | 36,911,528 | 6,916,975 | 31/3/2023 |
| Deribit | ETH-28OCT22 | -0.040 | 0.07 | 13,621,297 | 4,879,076 | 28/10/2022 |
| Huobi Futures | ETH_NW | 0.166 | 0.03 | 1,796,700 | 3,968,340 | 14/10/2022 |
| Huobi Futures | ETH_CW | 0.135 | 0.02 | 3,090,640 | 3,954,387 | 7/10/2022 |
| Huobi Futures | ETH_NW | 0.051 | 0.02 | 1,397,090 | 3,917,579 | 7/10/2022 |
| Deribit | ETH-31MAR23 | 0.385 | 0.06 | 77,894,653 | 3,900,019 | 31/3/2023 |
| Deribit | ETH-14OCT22 | -0.059 | 0.05 | 2,458,362 | 2,601,249 | 14/10/2022 |
| Deribit | ETH-7OCT22 | -0.082 | 0.02 | 3,315,452 | 2,250,981 | 7/10/2022 |
| Deribit | ETH-30JUN23 | 0.202 | 0.16 | 30,311,983 | 1,089,414 | 30/6/2023 |
| Deribit | ETH-25NOV22 | 0.085 | 0.11 | 1,125,037 | 1,022,043 | 25/11/2022 |
| Deribit | ETH-29SEP23 | 0.737 | 0.19 | 137,250 | 84,724 | 29/9/2023 |
Besides there are other derivatives which can be considered for the purpose of leveraging.
Indexes as partly correlated with ETH can be also considered for accelerating trades.
Positive correlation with Ethereum
Identifying long term correlated crypto assets can also serve as an alternative for leveraging. The alternative can come with more derivative choice and higher volumes.
| ADA | FTT | XMR | NEO | COMP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETH | 0.74 | 0.73 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.69 |
Check other correlations with Ethereum or use a custom form to check ETH changes in correlation coefficient with other token.