Crypto Market Recap Oct 28, 12:00 UTC: BTC +1.8%, INIT +35.7%, VVV −3.8%
BTC $81,300 (+1.76%), ETH $2,361.1 (+2.01%). Top gainer INIT +35.68%, top loser VVV −3.77%. Liquidations $0; 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: $81,300 (+1.76% in 24h), funding 0.0013%/h, open interest $3.46B. BTC data
- Ethereum: $2,361.1 (+2.01%), funding 0.0013%/h. ETH data
- Liquidations recorded: $0 (longs $0, shorts $0). Liquidation data
- Whale positioning: tracked Hyperliquid whales hold $1.10B long vs $2.32B short (32% long). Whale tracker
Top gainers and why they moved
INIT +35.68% · $0.2168
- Open interest +79.2%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Funding is negative (-0.0075%/h): shorts are paying longs, so many traders are still positioned against the rally.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 14% long ($3.6K long vs $21.7K short).
PONS +18.45% · $0.2913
- Open interest +26.7%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 17% long ($263.5K long vs $1.24M short).
kPEPE +16.86% · $0.004991
- Open interest +40.1%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 46% long ($2.51M long vs $2.92M short).
XPL +6.85% · $0.07656
- Open interest +11.2%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 19% long ($2.46M long vs $10.72M short).
GRASS +5.97% · $0.7117
- Open interest +10.6%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 75% long ($1.04M long vs $344.9K short).
Top losers and why they dropped
VVV −3.77% · $24.54
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 28% long ($2.95M long vs $7.55M short).
CHIP −1.92% · $0.05188
- Open interest +11.8%: new leveraged positions came in with the move, which points to fresh shorts piling in.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 5% long ($87.0K long vs $1.69M short).
- Related headline: Bitcoin rebounds above $81,000 as Asian chip rally spills into crypto, pepe jumps 9% (coindesk.com).
- Related headline: Luxor raises $16M from CMT Digital amid AI-Bitcoin miner convergence (cointelegraph.com).
Hot news
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- Bithumb Says Hackers Accessed Internal System, Leaking Personal Data (decrypt.co)
- Bitcoin price eyes $82K as Morgan Stanley strategist says most of correction is over (cointelegraph.com)
- Kospi surges 7% as SK Hynix earnings fuel AI stock rebound (coindesk.com)
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