Liquidations main reason for crypto sell-off, small amounts of realized losses

Roughly $65M of realized losses in the past few hours, due to CFTC lawsuit with Binance

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Quick Take

  • CFTC is suing Binace over the alleged breaking of trading and derivatives rules.
  • This saw a sell-off in the crypto market, with Bitcoin going down to $26,600.
  • However, losses were extended for BNBUSD, which saw a price decline to 307, and its ratio compared to Bitcoin went down to a sixth-month low of 0.011.
  • Liquidations were plenty, over $100 million in the past 4 hours for the entire crypto ecosystem, according to Coinglass.
  • Roughly $65 million of realized losses in the past few hours is a very small amount when comparing year-to-date.
  • This is not a capitulation event compared to previous dates this year, such as Jan 26 and March 7, which saw hundreds of millions of losses.
BTCUSD: (Source: Trading View)
BTCUSD: (Source: Trading View)
Liquidations: (Source: Coinglass)
Liquidations: (Source: Coinglass)
Realized Loss: (Source: Glassnode)
Realized Loss: (Source: Glassnode)