BTC margin longs on Bitfinex hit 2.5-year high despite 13% slide
Leveraged longs on Bitfinex climbed to 80,636 BTC — up 10% year-to-date while spot BTC fell 13% — a divergence that has historically marked accumulation, not euphoria.
Sector-wide market analysis: dominance, liquidity, on-chain flows, whale activity, and exchange in/outflows.
Leveraged longs on Bitfinex climbed to 80,636 BTC — up 10% year-to-date while spot BTC fell 13% — a divergence that has historically marked accumulation, not euphoria.
The listing is the clearest U.S. platform reversal since the SEC's 2023 enforcement wave named ALGO as an unregistered security — a recalibrated internal legal call, not a regulatory green light.
648 $BTC (≈50.2M) moved from #Kucoin to unknown wallet.
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
390M $USDT (≈389.8M) moved from #Spark to #HTX.
The share move from 2.9% to 8.0% looks small in absolute terms, but it was carved almost entirely out of spot — a structural re-routing of retail flow onchain, not a CEX bleed.
The headline figure masks the concentration: IBIT accounted for 98% of the day's BTC ETF outflows — a single-vehicle drawdown on a day spot ETH ETFs also lost $62M.
The wallet's $301.6K $ASTEROID stack makes this a notable signal-tracking buy, but the $17.7K $VIRL entry is small enough that it reads as position-sizing, not conviction.
A flat tape masks a divergent tape underneath — spot ETF outflows and 10-year yields near multi-month highs are doing the work, while a $77M eBTC exploit adds a fresh security headline.
When price drops without a volatility pop, it usually means the market is treating the move as orderly flow rather than panic.
If the read is right, a16z is Hyperliquid's biggest external whale — and it has been buying the dip for nine months at an average cost near $39.
A pair of crypto wallets opened coordinated 10x leveraged long positions on $PEPE at the same time, accumulating a…
699 $BTC (≈53.6M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
Total stablecoin supply crossed $300B but net monthly growth is just $0.9B — the new money is concentrating inside USDT rather than expanding the broader market, a concentration risk the rest of the…
The withdrawal lands the same week Morgan Stanley's MSBT undercut the existing fee stack, and the listed replacement — a '40-Act crypto ETF — is the structural story, not the dropped application.
On-chain data from HypurrScan shows whale address 0xde42 sold 50,000 $HYPE tokens worth approximately $2.41 million…
The U.S. government transferred assets seized from FTX and Alameda Research to Coinbase Prime roughly eight hours ago…
747 $BTC (≈57.5M) moved from unknown wallet to Coinbase Institutional.
500M $USDT (≈499.6M) moved from #Spark to unknown wallet.
209.8M $USDC (≈209.8M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.