Merkle seeks to balance its open interest (OI) skew via its funding mechanism....User fees for a trade are also determined by the OI skew....If a trade furthers the skew, it is subject to a higher taker fee....But if it moves against the skew, it gets a lower maker fee.

Um, over the last month or so, very, very clearly, it’s been dominated by sell side skew....for a few weeks in here, you had like two weeks in here, you had a very clear bid side, um, bid side skew...

Mean returns follow a similar path with a slight right skew due to several high-momentum outliers....Most outcomes cluster in the +4 to +10% range, with a clear right skew that reflects the momentum-driven...

...at making money would remain tied to the App Store due to its significant reach, ideal demographic skew...

...shows price breaking above 83.5-84K resistance zone Open interest building with order book beginning to skew...

Therefore, the market will not reflect efficiency until the skew grows or the time until resolution decreases...

And, you know, we’ve seen, we’ve seen the commercial incentives, uh, like skew our news media.

And, you know, we’ve seen, we’ve seen the commercial incentives, uh, like skew our news media.

Traditional funding rates are determined by market skew and divergence of futures price from the spot...

This metric is also fairly simple to skew on a short timeframe, but maintaining that divergence over...

Um, and if you look at things like transactions, they’re so easy to skew....And so they will use the metrics or skew them in a way where it seems like we have stronger activity...

Spot order books are starting to skew towards the bid-side once again, as buyers step in to absorb some...

...the RV and IS split was 75% RV / 25% IS for BC and 45% RV / 55% IS for HC, which added to the data skew...

Looking past the skew in population size, this would suggest that there is still a lot of room for future...

GMX v2 introduces a price impact based on the skew of LPs and open interest....Specifically, when a transaction widens the skew, it incurs a negative price impact....This mechanism serves as a deterrent against amplifying the skew further....Moreover, this disincentivizes further trades that would accentuate the skew.

This second article attempts to go in-depth on those three fallacies: skew from bias, hedging, and time...Skew from Bias Without pure market efficiency, prediction markets’ predictions’ can be skewed (typically...Skew from Time Prediction market efficiency is not as simple as the coin flip scenario above.

We will use the median for our analysis, as outlier results from SOL and TRX skew the mean.

...opening fee is a function of the position size, leverage, and asset on the trader’s side and based on skew...Any trade that increases delta exposure for the Liquidity Buffer has a higher base fee due to its skew-increasing...At a higher level, it is calculated based on the OI skew.

Thales incorporates a skew impact price in order to balance exposure within a market....The skew impact can be positive or negative, making positions that exacerbate lopsided exposure to an...The risk cap and skew impact allows the AMM to market make in units of risk rather than token prices.

...growing concerns surrounding FTX’s solvency, collapse, and potential market contagion, with a heavy skew...