Saturday, 17/10/2026 · Auto-compiled at 07:00 (GMT+7)

Crypto Morning Brief 17/10: BTC $81,578 (-0.77%), $86.2M liquidated

BTC traded flat over the past 24 hours, now at $81,578 (-0.77%). Total liquidations reached $86.2M, with Longs taking the bigger hit (62%). Among the large Hyperliquid wallets Crypffalo tracks, 24 wallets lean Long and 17 lean Short, so whales are tilted bullish. Across exchanges, 63.8% of accounts are Long BTC.

Crypto Morning Brief 17/10: BTC $81,578 (-0.77%), $86.2M liquidated
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⚠️ Worth watching

  • Hyperliquid whale opened Long BTC $150M

💰 Major coin prices

BTC$81,578-0.77%🐋 8 Long · 14 Short
ETH$2,423-0.81%🐋 8 Long · 10 Short
ZEC$1,148-6.02%🐋 6 Long · 10 Short
NEAR$5.07-3.67%🐋 4 Long · 10 Short
SOL$104.40-0.96%
BNB$721.89-1.12%
XRP$1.31-1.78%
DOGE$0.0809-0.26%
HYPE$80.34-1.75%

🚀 Top gainers

  • AGT +69.6% $0.0615
  • ICNT +18.8% $0.1794
  • TIA +16.5% $0.6878

📉 Top losers

  • ZEREBRO -37.1% $0.0327
  • STRK -14.3% $0.0741
  • WAL -12.0% $0.0445

24-hour change among the 60 highest-volume USDT pairs on Binance Futures.

🔥 Liquidations in the past 24 hours: $86.2M

Long $53.6MShort $32.6M

Long positions took more liquidations (62%), meaning price dropped sharply at some point, wiping out traders betting on a rise.

Most liquidated coins

  • BTC $23.2M Long $10.9M · Short $12.3M
  • ETH $18.6M Long $9.8M · Short $8.8M
  • SOXL $3.5M Long $3.2M · Short $374.6K
  • SOL $3.1M Long $2.4M · Short $718.1K
  • ZEC $3.1M Long $2.1M · Short $1.1M
  • SNDK $2.7M Long $2.4M · Short $311.7K

Largest liquidations

  • SHORT BTC $6.2M Binance · 18:21 16/10
  • LONG BTC $2.8M Binance · 10:32 16/10
  • SHORT ETH $2.5M Binance · 18:11 16/10
  • LONG ETH $1.7M Binance · 10:32 16/10
  • LONG PUMP $900.4K Binance · 06:10 17/10

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🐋 What are Hyperliquid whales doing?

Crypffalo tracks the 79 largest wallets on Hyperliquid: 24 wallets leaning Long, 17 wallets leaning Short. The largest wallets hold $613M in Long positions and $1.84B in Short positions.

Coins most held by whales

  • BTC 22 wallets 8 long · 14 short · $877M
  • ETH 18 wallets 8 long · 10 short · $777M
  • HYPE 17 wallets 8 long · 9 short · $199M
  • SOL 17 wallets 6 long · 11 short · $161M
  • ZEC 16 wallets 6 long · 10 short · $158M
  • NEAR 14 wallets 4 long · 10 short · $60.9M

Largest whale trades in 24 hours

  • Wallet 0x30af…393e opened Long BTC $150M
  • Wallet 0x30af…393e opened Long ETH $37.3M
  • Wallet 0xbf73…5d58 closed Short SOL $18.0M (profit $67.0K)
  • Wallet 0xbf73…5d58 opened Short SOL $15.4M
  • Wallet 0xbf73…5d58 closed Long ZEC $14.7M (profit $376.7K)

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⚖️ Trader sentiment: Long/Short and Funding

Share of Long accounts (exchange average)

  • BTC 63.8% Long 36.2% Short
  • ETH 72.0% Long 28.0% Short
  • SOL 72.8% Long 27.2% Short
  • Most crowded Long: SKHYNIX 88.5%
  • Most crowded Short: BZ 71.9% Short

Funding rate (Binance)

  • KORU +0.0903% Longs pay
  • SOXL +0.0827% Longs pay
  • SNDK +0.0682% Longs pay
  • BR -0.3711% Shorts pay
  • WAL -0.0210% Shorts pay
  • BAT -0.0108% Shorts pay

Positive funding: Longs pay Shorts (the crowd is betting on a rise). Negative funding is the opposite.

Long/Short across exchanges → · Funding rate →

This brief is compiled automatically by Crypffalo every morning from public data from Binance Futures, OKX, Bybit and Hyperliquid. For informational purposes only, not financial advice.

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