Is XMR futures open interest at a record? Not on Santiment’s data. 📊 Open interest closed Oct 20 at $198.0M, below the Sep 5 daily close of $208.8M and only the fifth-highest daily close of the past year. 🧭 Counted in coins, about 329K XMR was open on Oct 20 vs about 402K on Sep 2, roughly where it sat Jul 17 to 21. 📈 The rebuild is real: from Oct 15 to Oct 20, coin-denominated open interest rose ~22% while price rose ~9%. 🔀 Funding’s 7-day average peaked at ~2.7x its own Jun 23 to Oct 13 average over Sep 28 to Oct 4, then cooled to ~0.9x for Oct 14 to 20, the same week open interest rebuilt. This week’s leverage came back with funding running below its own average, a cooler setup than early October’s. 🔗 Track XMR open interest and funding in Sanbase: https://app.santiment.net/charts/xmr-oi-and-funding-32255?utm_source=x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=xmroi_1026&aff=33