Crypto Market Recap Oct 21, 00:00 UTC: BTC +1.2%, COMP +19.6%, ARB −5.0%
BTC $82,926 (+1.23%), ETH $2,447.7 (+1.67%). Top gainer COMP +19.60%, top loser ARB −4.98%. Liquidations $25.00M; whales 33% 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: $82,926 (+1.23% in 24h), funding 0.0012%/h, open interest $3.38B. BTC data
- Ethereum: $2,447.7 (+1.67%), funding 0.0013%/h. ETH data
- Liquidations recorded: $25.00M (longs $11.94M, shorts $13.06M). Liquidation data
- Whale positioning: tracked Hyperliquid whales hold $1.07B long vs $2.14B short (33% long). Whale tracker
Top gainers and why they moved
COMP +19.60% · $25.905
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($110.0K), so they are positioned against this rally.
AERO +11.57% · $0.8879
- Open interest +21.4%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($227.7K), so they are positioned against this rally.
CASHCAT +10.60% · $0.1178
- Open interest +17.5%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 36% long ($879.9K long vs $1.60M short).
WLD +10.40% · $0.5890
- Short squeeze signal: $920.0K of shorts were liquidated vs $145.5K of longs, so forced buying likely amplified the rally.
- Open interest +32.1%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 52% long ($14.78M long vs $13.37M short).
kPEPE +9.74% · $0.004562
- Short squeeze signal: $582.9K of shorts were liquidated vs $103.0K of longs, so forced buying likely amplified the rally.
- Open interest +21.9%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 59% long ($1.96M long vs $1.35M short).
Top losers and why they dropped
ARB −4.98% · $0.1873
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 0% long ($1.6K long vs $1.09M short).
XMR −1.37% · $598.09
- Open interest +29.9%: new leveraged positions came in with the move, which points to fresh shorts piling in.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 48% long ($982.1K long vs $1.06M short).
STRK −0.99% · $0.05716
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 9% long ($457.1K long vs $4.71M short).
Liquidations
- ETH: $4.55M liquidated (longs $2.50M, shorts $2.05M)
- BTC: $3.54M liquidated (longs $1.84M, shorts $1.69M)
- ZEC: $2.56M liquidated (longs $678.9K, shorts $1.88M)
- SOL: $2.18M liquidated (longs $701.5K, shorts $1.48M)
- SNDK: $1.98M liquidated (longs $1.17M, shorts $815.6K)
- Largest single liquidation: a short SOL position worth $537.5K on OKX at 107.51.
Largest whale trades
- BTC: sold $8.29M at 82,883.7, now long $16.61M at 40x.
- BTC: sold $7.40M at 82,939.8, now short $3.70M at 40x.
- ETH: sold $6.70M at 2,450, now short $11.22M at 25x.
Hot news
- Qubic restarts blockchain, opens recovery claims after $1.4M hack (cointelegraph.com)
- Wallet Linked to Drift Exploit Sends $61 Million in Ethereum to Tornado Cash (decrypt.co)
- Bitwise, Hyperliquid seek SEC rule changes for token trading, airdrops (cointelegraph.com)
- Swiss Regulator Approves First Retail Fund That Holds Bitcoin Directly (decrypt.co)
- Crypto firms, Wall Street push SEC to revise Regulation Crypto Assets as comments close (theblock.co)
- Utah likens Kalshi to a ‘back-alley gambling den’ in lawsuit naming Susquehanna firms (theblock.co)
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