A long-SHORT, SINGLE-INSTRUMENT, single-venue directional strategy on SOLUSDT.BINANCE USD-M perpetual futures using DAILY bars, that takes a position ONLY when the price trend and the funding rate AGREE in direction, and stays FLAT when they disagree. This is a deliberate, conservative extension of the factory's ONE promoted survivor — the ETH Perp Daily Funding-Confirmed Trend (Sharpe 2.74, at PAPER) — onto a higher-beta major, to test whether the validated confluence mechanism transfers across the beta spectrum. CRITICAL DESIGN CHOICES grounded in this session's accumulated failures: (1) SIGNAL = FUNDING, not OI or taker-flow. The crypto-native-signal-gated family repeatedly hit a data wall because open_interest and taker_ratio (from the metrics files) have multi-year coverage HOLES that fragment the backtest and make walk-forward degenerate; funding_rates is the cleanly-covered series that actually produced the promoted ETH winner. Choosing funding is a direct, evidence-based decision to avoid that data wall. (2) NON-naked-trend. Pure breakout / dual-EMA / Donchian directional momentum is now confirmed dead across 14+ abandons in the 2024-26 chop — but the funding-CONFIRMED variant survived, because the funding-confluence gate filters out the unsupported whipsaws that destroy naked trend systems. The differentiator is the AND-gate with funding plus the flat-on-disagreement discipline, NOT the trend leg alone. (3) NOT a closed family: it is NOT a pairs-ratio MR (crypto ratios are non-stationary — closed), NOT delta-neutral funding CARRY (funding is a directional SIGNAL on a single price-creditable leg, never booked as cash flow), NOT cross-venue / HYPERLIQUID, NOT COIN-M (engine-blocked), NOT drawdown-accumulation, NOT a rare funding-EXTREME gate (which is event-sparse post-2021); it uses the continuous funding SIGN/level so it fires across all regimes and populates OOS windows densely. Intentionally minimal: 3 tunables (trend_lookback, funding_lookback, funding_deadband).