Bitcoin stalls as open interest slip signals fragile rally
BTC slipped from a two-week high near $64,500 with futures OI falling to 740K from 776K and ETF demand still soft, the same derivatives tape that took out $500M in shorts in 24 hours.
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BTC slipped from a two-week high near $64,500 with futures OI falling to 740K from 776K and ETF demand still soft, the same derivatives tape that took out $500M in shorts in 24 hours.
Two failed short attacks into the $58K lows met fading spot sell pressure, leaving leveraged bears scrambling as MicroStrategy's sales overhang failed to drag price lower.
The $857K short liquidation is the surface beat; the structural read is the 80M ADA whales stacked into during the volatility, lifting aggregate whale holdings to a fresh peak despite the bearish…
Ether and solana carried the rally while weaker US jobs data trimmed rate-hike bets, but record ETF outflows and thin summer liquidity leave the question of whether forced buying turns into durable…
SEC's Atkins says he wants US to be the crypto capital; Bitcoin just printed its lowest monthly close since September 2024, with $100M of shorts already flushed in day-one trade.
The price drop is the headline, but the deeper signal is one-sided: open interest climbed as price fell, funding turned negative, and 6,900 BTC of bids sit below the market against just 1,570 BTC of…
Bitcoin pushed back toward $80,000 after the Strait of Hormuz was declared open following a US-brokered deal with Iran…
Roughly half a billion in bearish positioning evaporated in a single session — the largest short squeeze since late April, with $2.25T in total market cap now watching U.S.
The 24-hour short-loss figure is the story, not the price tag: leveraged bears piled in near $60K and got crushed when BTC ripped to $63,800 — but a fresh Iran-Israel flare-up has already started…
$320 million worth of short positions were liquidated across the crypto market in a 15-minute window, marking one of…
The base case rests on a short-squeeze trigger once Bitcoin stabilises, with a bear floor at $1.00–$1.05 that today's $1.091 intraday low is already probing.
The bug is patched, but Shielded Labs admits there is no cryptographic way to prove it was never exploited — that uncertainty, not the flaw itself, is what crashed ZEC and crowded traders into a…
Spot demand has hemorrhaged 59,351 BTC from ETFs in 20 days while miners and underwater shorts flood exchanges — but the leverage map now puts 8x more capital betting against BTC than for it.
The bull case rests on a $2.26B leveraged short cluster above current prices and a 78% YTD surge in XRPL tokenized RWA volume — but macro risk-off could still flush XRP to $1.20 first.
Flat BTC action is masking the real move: HYPE just printed a record high while $33.5M of short positions were liquidated, backed by $896M in protocol revenue and fresh U.S. ETF launches.
Open interest jumped ~$10B in a month while spot volumes sit near two-year lows — the move looks more like forced short covering than durable demand, and CPI plus the Fed chair transition loom.
A wave of short liquidations swept crypto markets over the past 60 minutes, with $150 million in short positions…
Estimated leverage on Binance has fallen to levels last seen when XRP traded near $0.50 — a divergence that historically resolved in sharp directional moves, and the side that breaks first tends to…
Short sellers took a $300 million hit in liquidations as the crypto market moved against bearish positioning — a sharp…
A wave of forced short liquidations swept through crypto markets in the past 60 minutes, erasing $150 million in…