The adverse price developments in the cryptocurrency space only intensified in the past 24 hours, with new weekly, monthly, and even yearly lows registered from many altcoins. With double-digit drops evident across many charts, it’s no wonder that the daily liquidations have shot up above $500 million.
- It’s safe to say that the crypto market has seen better days, and there weren’t all that long ago. On a more micro-scale, BTC, for one, traded above $32,000 last week, but each attempt to decisively overcome that level was halted in its tracks.
- The subsequent rejections brought the asset south to around $30,000 before the situation worsened on Friday and the freefall began. As of now, bitcoin struggles to remain above $27,000 after another multi-thousand-dollar drop.
- However, while BTC has it bad, the altcoins are in a much worse shape. Double-digit losses are evident from almost all alternative coins.
- Ethereum leads this adverse trend with a massive 14% daily drop. The second-largest cryptocurrency is down to $1,450, meaning that it has lost over $500 in days.
- BNB, Cardano, Ripple, Solana, Dogecoin, Polkadot, Avalanche, Shiba Inu, and many others have seen double-digit price declines as well.
- Overall, the cryptocurrency market capitalization has dumped to almost a yearly low beneath $1.1 trillion. The metric is down by $200 billion in less than a week.
- As such, the number of liquidations and wrecked traders has skyrocketed (again). The traders in pain are up to 180,000 since yesterday, while the total liquidations are way over $500 million on a daily scale and $200 million in the past 12 hours.
- Once again, ETH positions account for the majority of this share, with almost $250 million in liquidations.
