Sharing a breakdown of what's actually happening with $IN right now.



What looks like tokens being burned on Ethereum and minted on BSC is actually a bridge transaction.

Buying on Ethereum-based markets, selling on BSC markets and DEXes.

CEX → ETH bridge → BSC DEX

In other words, arbitrage.Buy cheap, sell expensive. They're exploiting price differences between exchanges. I haven't checked each one individually but deposits and withdrawals are likely disabled on most of them.

This also explains why the funding rate gap exists
IN-15.84%
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LiquidityLifeguard
· 27m ago
The “funding rate divergence” finally makes sense now—arbitrage funds are making bets on both sides.
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GasfeeComplainer
· 27m ago
So those burn records are all smoke and mirrors; the real game is in the cross-chain price spreads.
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BlackGoldMechanicalHand
· 31m ago
The CEX withdrawal is closed just to lock in this price spread, right?
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SaveABitOnGasFees
· 42m ago
So that's it, the old trick of bridge arbitrage.
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YieldCartographer
· 48m ago
Manually checked several exchanges, and sure enough, both deposit and withdrawal are not open, forming a closed loop.
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PermissionedFury
· 48m ago
Buy on ETH, sell on BSC, classic arbitrage method, but how much profit does the gas fee eat away?
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Stop-LossForBluePeony
· 48m ago
This explains why I saw the abnormal funding rate yesterday.
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