Bloody Monday: Yesterday’s Bitcoin Selloff Saw Record $1.6B In Liquidations
Bitcoin price fell yesterday by over 10%, and price action has been on a downward descent since. The selloff was in response to a variety of factors, including the introduction of a new ban in India, a CFTC probe into Binance, and a debate over what was thought to be whale moving a billion in […]
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Crypto market liquidations have not slowed down since bitcoin’s crash had dragged the rest of the market down with it. Now that the digital asset has crashed below $23,000, the liquidations have quickly ramped up. By Monday, liquidations had quickly crossed $500 million. Before the end of the day, the number had barreled above $1 […]
Bitcoin liquidations had ramped up on Monday as the price of the digital asset had gone up drastically. These traders had been liquidated very fast with millions of dollars gone in a matter of minutes. However, it did not end there, given that the price of the cryptocurrency has not slowed down since then. And as the price of bitcoin has continued to grow, the liquidations have not slowed down either. Bitcoin Liquidations On The Rise Although the current liquidations are not as high as that recorded on Monday, they are still significant nonetheless. These liquidations had touched as high....
Crypto liquidations had ramped up following the market crash. Even with the recovery had come more liquidations as short calls had also taken a hit. However, with the recovery moving over the last week, the market has begun to regain some semblance of balance and so the liquidations have begun to settle. Crypto Market Liquidations Relaxes Although liquidations cannot entirely stop, the liquidations have begun to subside. It had fallen from over $1 billion in liquidations at the height of the market crash and has slowly but surely returned to normal levels. This is obvious in liquidations....
With bitcoin’s decline below $20,000, the crypto market liquidations have ramped up once more. The market which had been regaining some semblance of normality has now lost its hold. As bears continue to drag down prices across the space, traders are being liquidated left, right, and center. Although the liquidations have not been record-breaking in […]
The DeFi space crashed along with the rest of the market on May 19, but the liquidations mechanisms passed the biggest stress test. The savage sell-off that took place in mid-May fueled volatility in markets and triggered liquidations among numerous decentralized finance protocols. Like an earthquake, the market fall exacerbated the biggest wave of liquidations in DeFi history. The market experienced a higher amount of liquidation on May 19 than in the past two years in the DeFi space. As part of the Market Insights bi-weekly newsletter, Cointelegraph Consulting teamed up with Covalent to....