Crypto Market Recap Oct 12, 00:00 UTC: BTC +0.9%, S +28.7%, PONS −3.5%
BTC $83,727 (+0.94%), ETH $2,535.6 (+1.21%). Top gainer S +28.72%, top loser PONS −3.48%. Liquidations $13.04M; whales 21% 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: $83,727 (+0.94% in 24h), funding 0.0004%/h, open interest $3.19B. BTC data
- Ethereum: $2,535.6 (+1.21%), funding -0.0007%/h. ETH data
- Liquidations recorded: $13.04M (longs $4.69M, shorts $8.35M). Liquidation data
- Whale positioning: tracked Hyperliquid whales hold $499.45M long vs $1.90B short (21% long). Whale tracker
Top gainers and why they moved
S +28.72% · $0.06089
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all long ($1.2K).
W +25.47% · $0.02212
- Open interest +70.1%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Funding is elevated (0.0103%/h): longs are paying a premium, which can make the rally fragile if momentum fades.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($546.9K), so they are positioned against this rally.
GRASS +25.14% · $0.8395
- Open interest +25.9%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Funding is elevated (0.0083%/h): longs are paying a premium, which can make the rally fragile if momentum fades.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($787.7K), so they are positioned against this rally.
STRK +19.50% · $0.1234
- Short squeeze signal: $371.4K of shorts were liquidated vs $271.6K of longs, so forced buying likely amplified the rally.
- Open interest +28.9%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Funding is elevated (0.0054%/h): longs are paying a premium, which can make the rally fragile if momentum fades.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 79% long ($1.69M long vs $457.1K short).
NEAR +11.33% · $5.9
- Short squeeze signal: $635.0K of shorts were liquidated vs $236.2K of longs, so forced buying likely amplified the rally.
- Open interest +15.3%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 53% long ($25.12M long vs $22.11M short).
Top losers and why they dropped
PONS −3.48% · $0.3558
- Open interest −7.0%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 1% long ($9.9K long vs $734.4K short).
TIA −3.39% · $0.5819
- Open interest +5.5%: new leveraged positions came in with the move, which points to fresh shorts piling in.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 1% long ($8.3K long vs $1.12M short).
Liquidations
- ETH: $3.37M liquidated (longs $849.1K, shorts $2.52M)
- SOL: $2.09M liquidated (longs $1.24M, shorts $847.5K)
- BTC: $1.13M liquidated (longs $300.1K, shorts $829.9K)
- NEAR: $871.1K liquidated (longs $236.2K, shorts $635.0K)
- ZEC: $768.1K liquidated (longs $301.8K, shorts $466.3K)
- Largest single liquidation: a short ETH position worth $692.0K on OKX at 2,502.5.
Largest whale trades
- BTC: sold $16.07M at 83,629.4, now short $16.07M at 40x.
- BTC: sold $6.03M at 83,394.6, closing the position.
- ETH: bought $5.07M at 2,536.9, now long $10.15M at 25x.
Hot news
- Trader nets $1.28 million on new 1,000x exchange Papertrade by moving Hyperliquid’s ETH prices (theblock.co)
- Saylor teases Strategy Bitcoin buying after ending September with STRC buybacks (cointelegraph.com)
- Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana ETFs All in the Red for October (decrypt.co)
- Ledger attack spreads to EU, AI finds ’18 trillion XRP’ bug: Hodler’s Digest (cointelegraph.com)
- Everyone wants SCOTUS to take up prediction markets: State of Crypto (coindesk.com)
- XRP Ledger patches decade-old bug that could have minted trillions of XRP (theblock.co)
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