Crypto Market Recap Oct 19, 00:00 UTC: BTC +0.8%, CASHCAT +7.0%, PONS −9.6%
BTC $82,090 (+0.78%), ETH $2,410.2 (+0.35%). Top gainer CASHCAT +6.95%, top loser PONS −9.55%. Liquidations $18.31M; whales 34% 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: $82,090 (+0.78% in 24h), funding 0.0013%/h, open interest $3.21B. BTC data
- Ethereum: $2,410.2 (+0.35%), funding 0.0013%/h. ETH data
- Liquidations recorded: $18.31M (longs $11.57M, shorts $6.74M). Liquidation data
- Whale positioning: tracked Hyperliquid whales hold $979.20M long vs $1.92B short (34% long). Whale tracker
Top gainers and why they moved
CASHCAT +6.95% · $0.1087
- Open interest +8.3%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 46% long ($817.6K long vs $949.5K short).
XMR +5.00% · $599.17
- Open interest +8.9%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($8.5K), so they are positioned against this rally.
kPEPE +3.70% · $0.004012
- Open interest +10.3%: new leveraged positions came in with the move.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 71% long ($2.14M long vs $885.6K short).
NEAR +3.37% · $5.022
- Short squeeze signal: $228.4K of shorts were liquidated vs $145.8K of longs, so forced buying likely amplified the rally.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 52% long ($25.73M long vs $23.34M short).
ARB +3.31% · $0.1871
- Open interest −5.6%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 0% long ($400 long vs $659.6K short).
Top losers and why they dropped
PONS −9.55% · $0.2572
- Open interest −17.4%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 19% long ($205.7K long vs $888.4K short).
STRK −6.41% · $0.06042
- Open interest −9.1%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 53% long ($483.5K long vs $425.0K short).
AERO −5.46% · $0.7972
- Open interest −10.6%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are all short ($190.4K).
GRASS −4.96% · $0.5882
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 92% long ($859.1K long vs $75.1K short).
PUMP −4.07% · $0.004167
- Long liquidation cascade: $374.9K of longs were liquidated vs $93.8K of shorts, so forced selling likely deepened the drop.
- Open interest −10.0%: positions were closing, so the move was driven more by traders exiting than by new bets.
- Whales: tracked Hyperliquid whales are 38% long ($12.58M long vs $20.10M short).
Liquidations
- ETH: $5.80M liquidated (longs $4.08M, shorts $1.72M)
- BTC: $3.09M liquidated (longs $1.38M, shorts $1.71M)
- SOL: $1.52M liquidated (longs $448.0K, shorts $1.07M)
- ZEC: $1.46M liquidated (longs $827.4K, shorts $633.6K)
- SNDK: $602.6K liquidated (longs $276.1K, shorts $326.4K)
- Largest single liquidation: a long ETH position worth $1.19M on OKX at 2,383.9.
Largest whale trades
- ETH: bought $7.06M at 2,396.6, now long $3.53M at 25x.
- ETH: bought $6.66M at 2,409.5, now short $26.64M at 25x.
- BTC: sold $6.30M at 81,683.1, closing the position.
Hot news
- SEC tokenized stock framework faces issuer pushback as Broadcom, Verizon object to OKX-ICE listing (coindesk.com)
- Bitcoin ETFs Shed Nearly $1 Billion in Two Weeks as Uptober Stays Red (decrypt.co)
- Stablecoin supply stalls, but payments jump 45% as Visa, Mastercard and Stripe connect crypto to cash (coindesk.com)
- Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say (decrypt.co)
- Crypto audits give investors false sense of security as Q3 hacks cost $1.18 billion, Hacken says (coindesk.com)
- Crypto exchanges Binance, Coinbase join West Africa scam sweep that flagged $11 million (coindesk.com)
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