Forum Funding API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Forum Account Funding API
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'The Forum API provides programmatic access to the Forum perpetual futures exchange.

    Trade attention-based perpetual futures, access real-time market data, and manage your account.


    ## Base URL


    All endpoints are relative to `https://api.forum.market/v1`.


    ## Authentication


    Public endpoints (market data, exchange status) require no authentication.

    Private endpoints (orders, positions, account) require HMAC-SHA256 signed requests.


    See the [Authentication](/api-reference/authentication) guide for details.

    '
  contact:
    name: Forum Support
    email: contact@forum.market
    url: https://forum.market
  termsOfService: https://forum-legal.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/terms-of-service.pdf
servers:
- url: https://api.forum.market/v1
  description: Production
security:
- ForumAccessKey: []
  ForumAccessTimestamp: []
  ForumAccessSign: []
tags:
- name: Funding
  description: Funding rates and history
paths:
  /markets/{ticker}/funding-rate:
    get:
      operationId: getFundingRate
      summary: Get current funding rate
      description: Returns the last and estimated next funding rate as well as last price, index value, and next funding time for a market.
      tags:
      - Funding
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/TickerPath'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Funding rate information
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/FundingRateInfo'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
  /markets/{ticker}/funding-history:
    get:
      operationId: getFundingHistory
      summary: Get funding rate history
      description: Returns historical funding rates within a time range.
      tags:
      - Funding
      security: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/TickerPath'
      - name: start
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        description: Start time (ISO 8601)
        example: '2026-02-24T00:00:00.000Z'
      - name: end
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        description: End time (ISO 8601). Defaults to current time.
      - name: limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 2500
          default: 2500
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Funding rate history
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/FundingHistoryRecord'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
  schemas:
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      required:
      - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          required:
          - code
          - message
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              description: Machine-readable error code
              example: INVALID_PARAMETER
            message:
              type: string
              description: Human-readable error message
              example: Request validation failed
            details:
              type: object
              description: Additional error details
              example:
                fields:
                - field: ticker
                  message: Required
    FundingHistoryRecord:
      type: object
      required:
      - ticker
      - fundingRate
      - timestamp
      properties:
        ticker:
          type: string
          example: OPENAI
        fundingRate:
          type: number
          example: 0.0001
        timestamp:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z'
    FundingRateInfo:
      type: object
      required:
      - ticker
      properties:
        ticker:
          type: string
          example: OPENAI
        fundingRate:
          type:
          - number
          - 'null'
          description: Last settled funding rate
          example: 0.0001
        movingFundingRate:
          type:
          - number
          - 'null'
          description: Estimated next funding rate based on the average premium index in the current funding window
          example: 0.00012
        lastPrice:
          type:
          - number
          - 'null'
          description: Last trade price in cents
          example: 10550
        indexValue:
          type:
          - number
          - 'null'
          description: Current attention index value
          example: 100
        nextFundingTime:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date-time
          description: Next funding settlement time
          example: '2026-02-25T08:00:00.000Z'
  parameters:
    TickerPath:
      name: ticker
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Market ticker symbol
      example: OPENAI
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: Invalid request parameters
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            error:
              code: INVALID_PARAMETER
              message: Request validation failed
              details:
                fields:
                - field: ticker
                  message: Required
    RateLimited:
      description: Rate limit exceeded
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          schema:
            type: integer
          description: Seconds to wait before retrying
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            error:
              code: RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED
              message: Rate limit exceeded. Try again in 5 seconds.
  securitySchemes:
    ForumAccessKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: FORUM-ACCESS-KEY
      description: Your API key ID (e.g. `fk_a1b2c3d4e5f6...`)
    ForumAccessTimestamp:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: FORUM-ACCESS-TIMESTAMP
      description: Unix epoch in seconds (UTC), as a string
    ForumAccessSign:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: FORUM-ACCESS-SIGN
      description: 'Base64-encoded HMAC-SHA256 signature.


        **Signature generation:**

        ```

        prehash = timestamp + method + requestPath + body

        signature = Base64(HMAC-SHA256(secret, prehash))

        ```

        '