Ethereum sets record ETH short liquidations, wiping out $500 billion in 2 days
New all-time highs in short liquidations — at least when measured in dollars — point to overly bearish market sentiment. Ether (ETH) is setting liquidation records this week as a comparatively modest price uptick reveals how bearish the market has become.Data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant confirmed that United States dollar-denominated short liquidations hit a new all-time high on Oct. 25. Two days, half a billion dollars of ETH shortsIt is not just Bitcoin (BTC) causing the bears severe pain this week — data from exchanges also shows that Ethereum shorters have suffered....
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