Crypto Market Recap Oct 18, 00:00 UTC: BTC −0.0%, SAND +9.0%, PONS −12.1%
BTC $81,672.6 (−0.02%), ETH $2,410.9 (−0.93%). Top gainer SAND +9.05%, top loser PONS −12.10%. Liquidations $20.41M; whales 32% 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: $81,672.6 (−0.02% in 24h), funding 0.0003%/h, open interest $3.35B. BTC data
- Ethereum: $2,410.9 (−0.93%), funding 0.0013%/h. ETH data
- Liquidations recorded: $20.41M (longs $16.96M, shorts $3.45M). Liquidation data
- Whale positioning: tracked Hyperliquid whales hold $949.29M long vs $1.99B short (32% long). Whale tracker
Top gainers and why they moved
SAND +9.05% · $0.06309
- Funding is negative (-0.1449%/h): shorts are paying longs, so many traders are still positioned against the rally.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 35% long ($42.1K long vs $77.0K short).
XMR +2.92% · $577.51
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($79.0K), so they are positioned against this rally.
Top losers and why they dropped
PONS −12.10% · $0.2775
- Open interest −17.7%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 0% long ($653 long vs $1.03M short).
STRK −11.83% · $0.06359
- Open interest −18.2%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 34% long ($282.8K long vs $553.0K short).
TIA −10.79% · $0.6422
- Open interest −23.9%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 1% long ($9.2K long vs $685.5K short).
PUMP −7.78% · $0.004288
- Open interest −11.7%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 34% long ($11.70M long vs $22.82M short).
PYTH −7.72% · $0.07812
- Open interest −37.0%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 49% long ($273.4K long vs $286.7K short).
Liquidations
- ETH: $2.88M liquidated (longs $1.85M, shorts $1.03M)
- SNDK: $1.97M liquidated (longs $1.76M, shorts $213.9K)
- SOL: $1.47M liquidated (longs $1.32M, shorts $142.5K)
- ZEC: $1.17M liquidated (longs $707.2K, shorts $460.9K)
- SOXL: $1.07M liquidated (longs $1.05M, shorts $13.6K)
- Largest single liquidation: a long XRP position worth $437.5K on OKX at 1.272.
Largest whale trades
- BTC: sold $28.64M at 81,805.9, closing the position.
- ETH: bought $15.22M at 2,409.7, now long $26.79M at 6x.
- BTC: sold $8.17M at 81,736, now short $19.37M at 40x.
Hot news
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- Circle’s Allaire says stablecoin issuer looking to enter 40 developing markets: Report (cointelegraph.com)
- Chip-stock bets lost $52 million in 10 minutes with Wall Street shut (coindesk.com)
- CoreWeave, Broadcom, Verizon among nine companies objecting to tokenized trading of their shares on OKXICE (theblock.co)
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