Crypto Market Recap Nov 4, 12:00 UTC: BTC +1.8%, LIT +11.2%, TRUMP −8.2%
BTC $78,473 (+1.80%), ETH $2,328.6 (+2.72%). Top gainer LIT +11.18%, top loser TRUMP −8.21%. Liquidations $7.00M; whales 29% long.
A data-driven look at the crypto market over the past 24 hours, built from live Hyperliquid prices, funding and whale positions, plus Binance and OKX liquidation feeds.
Market snapshot
- Bitcoin: $78,473 (+1.80% in 24h), funding 0.0013%/h, open interest $3.07B. BTC data
- Ethereum: $2,328.6 (+2.72%), funding 0.0013%/h. ETH data
- Liquidations recorded: $7.00M (longs $1.08M, shorts $5.92M). Liquidation data
- Whale positioning: tracked Hyperliquid whales hold $848.59M long vs $2.12B short (29% long). Whale tracker
Top gainers and why they moved
LIT +11.18% · $3.498
- Open interest +13.7%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 91% long ($6.18M long vs $648.1K short).
VVV +11.09% · $23.98
- Open interest +16.3%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 27% long ($2.88M long vs $7.65M short).
PONS +10.38% · $0.2215
- Open interest +12.8%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 14% long ($178.9K long vs $1.06M short).
RUNE +9.74% · $0.6344
- Open interest −25.4%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($428.7K), so they are positioned against this rally.
- Related headline: RUNE rallies 15% as THORChain restarts most swaps after outage (cointelegraph.com).
ZEC +9.55% · $1,295.1
- Short squeeze signal: $424.7K of shorts were liquidated vs $49.0K of longs, so forced buying likely amplified the rally.
- Open interest +34.4%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 24% long ($53.26M long vs $167.39M short).
- Related headline: Zcash grants committee drops plan to redirect 98,000 ZEC to future mining rewards (coindesk.com).
Top losers and why they dropped
TRUMP −8.21% · $1.455
- Funding is negative (-0.0076%/h): shorts are paying longs, the market leans short.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 100% long ($293.9K long vs $389 short).
- Related headline: Bitcoin rebounds from midterm dip as DeFi leads gains (coindesk.com).
- Related headline: Democrats win US House to secure control of Congress in midterms (cointelegraph.com).
WLFI −1.82% · $0.05008
- Open interest −5.7%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($238.2K).
- Related headline: Justin Sun seeks sanctions against Trump-linked World Liberty Financial over UAE ties (coindesk.com).
XPL −0.42% · $0.06422
- Open interest +6.6%: new leveraged positions came in with the move, which points to fresh shorts piling in.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 18% long ($2.52M long vs $11.35M short).
Liquidations
- ETH: $1.93M liquidated (longs $57.0K, shorts $1.87M)
- BTC: $1.14M liquidated (longs $10.8K, shorts $1.12M)
- ZEC: $473.7K liquidated (longs $49.0K, shorts $424.7K)
- kPEPE: $367.7K liquidated (longs $0, shorts $367.7K)
- SNDK: $352.4K liquidated (longs $239.4K, shorts $113.0K)
- Largest single liquidation: a short ETH position worth $1.13M on OKX at 2,261.6.
Hot news
- Binance hack may be ‘temporary setback’ for crypto, Grayscale’s Pandl says (cointelegraph.com)
- Bitcoin ETFs lose $1.16B as Bitwise calls selling ‘short-term’ (cointelegraph.com)
- Binance hackers move 81% of stolen Solana, route funds via THORChain (cointelegraph.com)
- Jack Dorsey's Block faces $764 million DOJ settlement as bitcoin profit plunges 50% (coindesk.com)
- French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa exploited for over $133 million, ZachXBT says (theblock.co)
- Democrats surge toward Senate, House majorities, with crypto braced for new direction (coindesk.com)
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