The crypto market has erased more than $19.5 billion in leveraged positions in the past 24 hours, making it the most chaotic 24-hour period in crypto history. This crash, which saw 1.6 million traders forced out of positions, was caused by sudden US tariff announcements on China and amplified by risky leverage across exchanges. Bitcoin…
After weeks of consolidation, Bitcoin decisively broke below $9,000 just minutes ago. The cryptocurrency dipped as low as $8,840 on leading spot exchanges and slightly lower on margin-enabled exchanges like BitMEX.BTC price chart of the drop from TradingView.comThis move caught many traders off guard, according to derivatives data.Skew.com reported that more than $20 million worth…
According to a report by data analytics company IntoTheBlock, the volume of high-risk loans on the prominent Aave Protocol is reaching high levels as general loan volume in the DeFi space records multi-year highs. This development is believed to stem from investors exploring various investment strategies in a bid to maximize profits in a highly…
Bitcoin’s block reward halving may be just hours away, two hours away by most estimates, but that hasn’t stopped the price from dumping.The cryptocurrency just slid as low as $8,380 just minutes ago, visiting the levels it was trading at just 24 hours ago.This came after Bitcoin rallied as high as $9,200 on Monday morning,…
Over the past ten minutes, Bitcoin has performed extremely poorly, falling from $6,700 to a price as low as $6,265 in an over 6% sell-off, per data from TradingView. As a result, at least $20 million worth of long positions on BitMEX were liquidated, while millions more probably bit the dust on other exchanges.This 6%…
The headline number is useful, but the real story is what it says about positioning. U.S. Public Firm K Wave Media Liquidates Entire 88 BTC Portfolio to Repay Debt gives NewsBTC readers a clean angle on Bitcoin at a point where the market is trying to separate durable signals from short-lived noise. According to the…
Crypto markets are depreciating for another day as Bitcoin fails to gain any traction. Volatility appears to be returning as a big spike triggered a lot of liquidation a few hours ago. The overall picture is still very bearish though. BitMEX Bitcoin Manipulation Calls The slow grind down has continued this week but some spurious…
Bitcoin perpetual futures just closed out the longest stretch of negative funding rates in a decade. According to K33 Research data cited by CoinDesk, the 30-day average funding rate stayed negative for 67 consecutive days — the longest streak in 10 years, eclipsing the run from March to May 2020. For short sellers in BTC…
Bitcoin price has shattered $47,000 and has left in its wake the bloodbath that is short liquidations. These short traders that obviously expected the previous market trend of low momentum to continue have now incurred hundreds of millions of dollars in losses in the crypto market, and in a very short time too. The bloodbath…
A whale trader using the ENS-linked address pension-usdt.eth was liquidated on Hyperliquid after a massive Ether short position unraveled in just 12 seconds. The position was large: 50,000 ETH, worth about $108 million in notional exposure. As prices spiked, the short was unwound between 04:51:03 and 04:51:15 UTC, leaving the trader with a reported loss…