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Three tools call a venue instead of reading stored history: what a perpetual is paying this minute, who has just been liquidated, and what an option costs right now. Every other research tool reads recorded history, so the same question asked twice gives the same answer. These three cannot work that way, and each of them says so.

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What a perpetual pays right now

Tool: get_hyperliquid Funding annualised, open interest, and mark against oracle: as of this minute. Funding and open interest walks recorded days and answers whether a carry has been worth having. This answers what it pays now, which is the question somebody actually asks before opening one.
Hyperliquid settles funding hourly: twenty-four intervals in a day, not three. An hourly rate read as an eight-hourly one is wrong by a factor of eight, in the direction that makes a carry look far better than it is.
The venue publishes open interest only as it is now and keeps no history of it, so that part of the stream records forward only and begins when the watcher began. It cannot be backfilled, and nothing pretends otherwise.

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Who has just been liquidated

Tool: get_liquidations Forced closes as they happened, each with the address it happened to: which no centralised venue publishes. Liquidation, not price, is what stops a leveraged hedge hedging. A cluster of forced closes at a level is the risk a perpetual carries that an option does not: an option cannot be liquidated, and that difference is most of the reason to pay for one.
The two liquidation streams are never merged. The centralised one is an hourly aggregate and cannot name a trader. The Hyperliquid one is one row per event and can. Merging them would drop the detail on one side and invent it on the other.
See liquidations for the depth of each.

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What an option costs right now

Tool: price_options_live The real Deribit book, not a daily snapshot. See pricing against the live book. A price somebody is about to trade on cannot come from yesterday’s close, and this is the one place where a moving answer is the correct answer.