Binance cuts nearly three hours of Blue Ocean data from US stock perp funding

Binance has removed nearly three hours of price data from the funding rate calculations on its US stock perpetual contracts. The cause was not a crypto exchange meltdown. It was a connectivity problem at a traditional trading venue. The venue was Blue Ocean, an alternative trading system that handles US equity trades after the regular session closes. On October 21, 2026, intermittent network issues there led Binance to exclude a slice of premium index data from a scheduled funding settlement. What happened and when The disruption at Blue Ocean ran from 03:46 UTC to 06:30 UTC. That works out to roughly 2 hours and 44 minutes of affected data. Binance said premium index readings from that window would be left out of the funding rate calculation. That calculation settled at 08:00 UTC the same day. The affected products are Binance’s TradFi perpetual contracts tied to US stocks. These are futures-style instruments that never expire, trade around the clock, and settle in stablecoins. The research behind the announcement describes the move as a standard adjustment for data discrepancies. It does not describe an exchange-wide outage. Trading on Binance itself was not reported as halted. W...