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In October, positions worth more than $12.5 billion were forcibly closed on the crypto market. This is one of the most destructive months for leveraged trading: instead of the market's usual "Uptober," traders got "Rektober."
Bitcoin's crash amid reports of a Binance hack wiped out the positions of 254,258 traders. Almost 86% of the total volume was long positions, i.e., bets on growth.
On Friday, Ethereum dipped below $2,200, losing 3-4% for the day. Over 24 hours, $360.5 million worth of positions were forcibly closed on the market, and almost all of that amount was bets on growth.
Overnight on October 30, about $6.3 billion left Binance's hot wallets (exchange storage connected to the network for fast withdrawals) - the largest theft in crypto history, four times larger than the $1.5 billion Bybit hack in February 2025.
BTC's trip to $85,000 ended in a reversal: from a high of $84,840 the price fell to $81,500, down almost 3%. The trigger did not come from crypto - the market was disappointed by Tesla's earnings report, and $431 million in leveraged positions were wiped out in a day.
Data from the analytics platform Santiment: open interest (the sum of all open futures positions) rose sharply, and trader sentiment turned openly bullish. At night the market moved against the crowd.
Over 30 days through October 19, 6.05 billion XRP were deposited to exchanges - the most since March. Total exchange reserves rose to 11.81 billion tokens, the 99th percentile for the year.
Ethereum rose to $2,444.75, gaining 4.2% in 24 hours. Over the same period, $73.42 million in ETH positions were liquidated, and almost 60% of them were shorts.
On Thursday, October 15, BTC dropped below $80,000, but recovered back to $82,300-82,500 in less than two hours. Over the day, $937.06 million worth of positions were forcibly closed on the crypto derivatives market.
Over the past 24 hours, leveraged positions worth $951.4 million were liquidated on the crypto market, with $876.3 million coming from longs. Bitcoin dropped to $80,764, while Ethereum lost more than 6%.
Bitcoin fell from $84,200 to $81,382 over the day, losing about 2.8%, while total liquidations on the crypto market reached $771 million. By the morning of October 13, BTC had recovered above $83,000.
The funding rate for Bitcoin perpetual futures on Binance dropped to about -0.00215, the lowest level since January. Negative funding indicates growing demand for shorts amid BTC's decline to $83,000 and below.
On the evening of October 7, Ethereum dropped to $2,570, definitively breaking through the $2,700 zone. Over the day, $233.36 million in positions were liquidated on ETH, with about 95% of that amount coming from longs.
Over the past 24 hours, positions worth $555.6 million were forcibly closed on the crypto market, with about 88% of the amount coming from longs. Bitcoin at one point dropped below $84,000, and the low on Coinbase was $83,551.
