Sunday, 18/10/2026 · Auto-compiled at 07:00 (GMT+7)

Crypto Morning Brief 18/10: BTC $81,456 (-0.17%), $97.9M liquidated

BTC traded flat over the past 24 hours, now at $81,456 (-0.17%). Total liquidations reached $97.9M, with Longs taking the bigger hit (74%). Among the large Hyperliquid wallets Crypffalo tracks, 25 wallets lean Long and 16 lean Short, so whales are tilted bullish. Across exchanges, 63.8% of accounts are Long BTC.

Crypto Morning Brief 18/10: BTC $81,456 (-0.17%), $97.9M liquidated
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💰 Major coin prices

BTC$81,456-0.17%🐋 8 Long · 14 Short
ETH$2,402-0.86%🐋 10 Long · 9 Short
ZEC$1,127-1.91%🐋 7 Long · 10 Short
NEAR$4.86-4.01%🐋 4 Long · 10 Short
SOL$103.41-0.93%
BNB$718.46-0.51%
XRP$1.29-1.34%
DOGE$0.0793-1.99%
HYPE$78.04-2.86%

🚀 Top gainers

  • Q +111.0% $0.1231
  • AGT +32.9% $0.0836
  • AVA +28.5% $0.3779

📉 Top losers

  • ZEREBRO -23.0% $0.0253
  • STRK -12.7% $0.0645
  • BAT -9.0% $0.1791

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

🔥 Liquidations in the past 24 hours: $97.9M

Long $72.0MShort $25.9M

Long positions took more liquidations (74%), meaning price dropped sharply at some point, wiping out traders betting on a rise.

Most liquidated coins

  • ETH $15.5M Long $13.4M · Short $2.1M
  • BTC $9.5M Long $8.2M · Short $1.2M
  • SOXS $8.4M Long $0 · Short $8.4M
  • SOXL $6.4M Long $2.8M · Short $3.6M
  • SOL $4.8M Long $4.6M · Short $162.8K
  • SNDK $4.4M Long $4.4M · Short $57.5K

Largest liquidations

  • SHORT SOXS $7.3M Binance · 04:31 18/10
  • LONG ETH $5.9M Binance · 04:39 18/10
  • SHORT SOXL $3.2M Binance · 04:31 18/10
  • LONG BTC $1.9M Binance · 04:31 18/10
  • LONG XAG $1.0M Binance · 04:31 18/10

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🐋 What are Hyperliquid whales doing?

Crypffalo tracks the 79 largest wallets on Hyperliquid: 25 wallets leaning Long, 16 wallets leaning Short. The largest wallets hold $603M in Long positions and $1.80B in Short positions.

Coins most held by whales

  • BTC 22 wallets 8 long · 14 short · $870M
  • ETH 19 wallets 10 long · 9 short · $747M
  • HYPE 17 wallets 10 long · 7 short · $188M
  • ZEC 17 wallets 7 long · 10 short · $169M
  • SOL 17 wallets 8 long · 9 short · $158M
  • XRP 14 wallets 4 long · 10 short · $62.8M

Largest whale trades in 24 hours

  • Wallet 0x30af…393e closed Long ETH $11.8M (loss $135.7K)
  • Wallet 0xbf73…5d58 opened Long ETH $4.8M
  • Wallet 0x469e…58a5 opened Short XRP $3.9M
  • Wallet 0xbf73…5d58 opened Long ZEC $2.7M
  • Wallet 0xf5d8…ad53 flipped to Long BTC $1.9M

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⚖️ Trader sentiment: Long/Short and Funding

Share of Long accounts (exchange average)

  • BTC 63.8% Long 36.2% Short
  • ETH 72.5% Long 27.5% Short
  • SOL 72.7% Long 27.3% Short
  • Most crowded Long: SKHYNIX 88.3%
  • Most crowded Short: BZ 72.8% Short

Funding rate (Binance)

  • SOXS +0.1178% Longs pay
  • AGT +0.0476% Longs pay
  • EPIC +0.0285% Longs pay
  • GTC -0.4148% Shorts pay
  • SNXX -0.3244% Shorts pay
  • Q -0.2066% 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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