More than $400 million was liquidated from cryptocurrency markets as Bitcoin BTC/USD fell 8% on Thursday to a low of $36,350.
What Happened: According to Coinglass data, total liquidations exceeded $406 million in the past 24 hours.
At the time of writing, 103,600 traders had been liquidated, most of them in long positions.
$165 million in #Bitcoin Long liquidations today.
This is the highest daily long liquidation amount since the late January 2022 crash. pic.twitter.com/vwfp0ZzQNb
— OnChain College (@OnChainCollege) May 6, 2022On-chain analysts noted that the magnitude of the long liquidations today was the highest since the crypto crash in late January.
At the time of writing, there were $342 million in long liquidations and $62 million in short liquidations.
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Bitcoin BTC/USD and Ethereum ETH/USD saw $192 million and $64 million liquidated, respectively.
Among altcoins, ApeCoin (APE) saw the most liquidations with traders losing $11.98 million. STEPN (GMT) and Solana (SOL) saw more than $9 million in liquidations.
Dogecoin DOGE/USD saw $4.62 million in liquidations while the meme coin lost 6.7% and fell to $0.12.
The cryptocurrency sell-off followed despite news that the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance had contributed $500 million to Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter Inc TWTR acquisition.
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