KAIA (KAIA / USDT) — funding, open interest and structure
Late stage of the move, signs of exhaustion (+39.0% over 24h), price is stretched far (+41% from EMA200) — such stretches tend to snap back. The trend favors the bulls, but entering into a stretch is risky — better on a pullback.
Key numbers
- Price
- $0.0532
- 24h change
- +39.00%
- 24h volume
- $293.76M
- 24h high
- $0.0618
- 24h low
- $0.0360
- Market cap
- $352.64M
- Sector
- Layer 1
- Funding rate
- -0.54%
- Open interest
- $12.84M
- OI change, 24h
- +292.09%
- OI trend
- rising
- RSI (1h)
- 90
- ATR / price
- +2.06%
- Volume vs average
- 0.31x
What is happening
Open interest (the sum of open positions) jumped sharply — an inflow of new positions into the market.
Why: RSI is running hot, shorts overheated
- Status
- Active
- Stage
- Preparing
Facts
- Price above VWAP·5d (+5%)
- RSI 90
- MACD rising
- OI rising (+16% over 4h)
- Funding −0.543%
- Volume ×0.3 vs the 20-candle average
What each number means
Funding rateshorts overheated
Funding −0.543%: shorts are over-levered — risk of a short squeeze up when they buy back. The skew is accelerating — cascade risk is rising.
Open interestshorts building
OI is rising on a drop (+16.2% over 4h): shorts are being opened — the downside is backed. OI is accelerating.
RSIoverbought
RSI 90: overbought. It can hold at a trend peak, but the room above is thinning. And RSI is rising — pushing deeper into overbought.
EMA stackuptrend
Price is above EMA200 and the averages are stacked bullish (20>50>200) — a steady uptrend. Price is stretched far from EMA200 (+41%) — such stretches tend to snap back.
MACDmomentum building
The MACD histogram is rising — upside momentum is building.
Volatility (ATR)volatility normal
Normal volatility (ATR 4.5%/h). Volatility is expanding — bigger moves, longer wicks.
Cumulative volume deltaflow flat
CVD is flat: neither buyer nor seller dominates the flow.
Recent movepump faded
No active pump: there was an impulse inside the window, but price has already given back −13% from the peak.
Volumevolume drying up
Volume is drying up (0.3× the 20-candle average): interest is fading — the move has no support.
Candlestick patternsbearish pattern
Pattern "threeBlackCrows" (15m) (85%): the figure favors sellers. Stronger if the next candle confirms it.
Volume profilein value area
Price is inside the value area — a fair range, buyers and sellers in balance.
Pivot levelsabove pivot
Price is above the daily pivot $0.05057 — an intraday buyer lean. Nearest resistance $0.06504 (+22.1%).
Support and resistancebetween levels
Nearest levels: support $0.04081 (−23.4%) (2 touches).
Levels and structure
- Range high / low
- $0.0614 · $0.0474
- Support
- $0.0408 · $0.0398 · $0.0388
Range and holding cost17 days
Where KAIA sits in its recent range, how much it moves on an average day, and what holding a position has cost in funding.
- Window high
- $0.04132026-10-06
- Window low
- $0.03132026-09-22
- Price within the window
- 55.9%
- Average daily range
- 7.3%
- Up days
- 9 / 17
- Down days
- 8 / 17
- Best day
- +7.80%
- Worst day
- -4.43%
- Average funding
- -0.34%
- Time funding was positive
- 33.3%
- Open interest over the window
- +61.08%
Funding and open interest history started on 24 August 2026, so this part of the window is still short — it deepens on its own.
| Date | Close | Change | Range | Funding rate | Open interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.0369 | -3.15% | 9.18% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0381 | -3.47% | 7.8% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0395 | -2.08% | 5.68% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0403 | +7.80% | 9.38% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0374 | +0.24% | 2.95% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0373 | +3.21% | 5.72% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0362 | -1.42% | 7.69% | -0.001% | $8.58M | |
| $0.0367 | +6.32% | 12.92% | -0.001% | $8.52M | |
| $0.0345 | +2.40% | 5.1% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0337 | -0.50% | 6.44% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0339 | -4.43% | 9.14% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0354 | -0.39% | 4.89% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0356 | +2.48% | 5.16% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0347 | +3.36% | 5.78% | no data | no data |
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