Aegis JUSD

Aegis performs funding rate arbitrage through delta-neutral trades in spot and perpetual markets, effectively generating profits from funding fees. These fees, disbursed three times daily, align perpetual contract and spot prices, ultimately rewarding YUSD holders.

## Overview Aegis JUSD is a basis trading tool designed to capture funding rate arbitrage opportunities across spot and perpetual cryptocurrency markets. The core premise is straightforward: perpetual futures contracts often trade at a premium or discount to spot prices, creating a funding rate—a periodic payment that incentivizes traders to rebalance the market. Aegis automates the process of profiting from this structural inefficiency by simultaneously holding long positions in spot markets while shorting the same asset in perpetual markets (or vice versa), locking in the funding spread as p