DEEP DIVE: BITCOIN FLASH CRASH |
? Bitcoin (BTC) took a nosedive recently, marking its largest single-day selloff of the year, plunging below $25k. The culprits? A futures market deleveraging and a whopping 88.3% of short-term holders now nursing unrealized losses.
? Options markets, once in a deep slumber with all-time low volatility, were jolted awake. Implied volatility doubled for short-dated contracts, but interestingly, open interest remained stable.
? Futures traders weren’t so lucky. Over $25 billion in perpetual futures contracts were wiped out in a day, reminiscent of the FTX collapse, making it the most dramatic deleveraging since Luna’s 2022 tumble.
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