Thursday, 22/10/2026 · Auto-compiled at 07:00 (GMT+7)

Crypto Morning Brief 22/10: BTC $84,038 (+1.25%), $65.1M liquidated

BTC rose slightly over the past 24 hours, now at $84,038 (+1.25%). Total liquidations reached $65.1M, with Shorts taking the bigger hit (74%). Among the large Hyperliquid wallets Crypffalo tracks, 26 wallets lean Long and 14 lean Short, so whales are tilted bullish. Across exchanges, 53.7% of accounts are Long BTC.

Crypto Morning Brief 22/10: BTC $84,038 (+1.25%), $65.1M liquidated
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⚠️ Worth watching

  • Hyperliquid whale closed Long ZEC $20.2M

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👉 Prices can swing sharply around release times, so consider lowering leverage and setting a stop-loss.

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💰 Major coin prices

BTC$84,038+1.25%🐋 9 Long · 11 Short
ETH$2,472+0.94%🐋 10 Long · 10 Short
NEAR$5.26+6.57%🐋 7 Long · 6 Short
SOL$106.84+0.34%
BNB$746.38+0.60%
XRP$1.36+2.20%
DOGE$0.0819+0.05%
HYPE$80.61+0.27%

🚀 Top gainers

  • IRYS +36.9% $0.0178
  • ALT +29.8% $0.0130
  • LIT +11.3% $3.76

📉 Top losers

  • JCT -19.7% $0.003774
  • BTW -19.0% $1.64
  • Q -10.4% $0.1113

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

🔥 Liquidations in the past 24 hours: $65.1M

Long $16.9MShort $48.2M

Short positions took more liquidations (74%), meaning price spiked at some point, wiping out traders betting on a drop.

Most liquidated coins

  • ETH $19.4M Long $3.3M · Short $16.1M
  • BTC $17.3M Long $1.7M · Short $15.5M
  • ZEC $4.2M Long $933.3K · Short $3.2M
  • SOL $2.5M Long $529.2K · Short $2.0M
  • SNDK $2.2M Long $1.8M · Short $397.0K
  • XRP $1.4M Long $224.3K · Short $1.2M

Largest liquidations

  • SHORT ETH $8.7M Binance · 20:06 21/10
  • SHORT BTC $2.0M Binance · 21:48 21/10
  • SHORT ETH $1.8M Binance · 20:06 21/10
  • SHORT BTC $1.5M Binance · 21:48 21/10
  • LONG ETH $795.7K Binance · 06:02 22/10

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🐋 What are Hyperliquid whales doing?

Crypffalo tracks the 79 largest wallets on Hyperliquid: 26 wallets leaning Long, 14 wallets leaning Short. The largest wallets hold $559M in Long positions and $1.85B in Short positions.

Coins most held by whales

  • ETH 20 wallets 10 long · 10 short · $841M
  • BTC 20 wallets 9 long · 11 short · $734M
  • ZEC 19 wallets 11 long · 8 short · $229M
  • HYPE 18 wallets 9 long · 9 short · $201M
  • SOL 16 wallets 7 long · 9 short · $163M
  • XRP 15 wallets 3 long · 12 short · $58.8M

Largest whale trades in 24 hours

  • Wallet 0xbf73…5d58 closed Long ZEC $20.2M (profit $1.7M)
  • Wallet 0x469e…58a5 closed Long BTC $12.7M (profit $330.6K)
  • Wallet 0xbf73…5d58 opened Short BTC $12.6M
  • Wallet 0x469e…58a5 opened Long SOL $8.4M
  • Wallet 0xecb6…2b00 flipped to Long BTC $4.9M

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⚖️ Trader sentiment: Long/Short and Funding

Share of Long accounts (exchange average)

  • BTC 53.7% Long 46.3% Short
  • ETH 67.3% Long 32.7% Short
  • SOL 71.5% Long 28.5% Short
  • Most crowded Long: XAG 86.3%
  • Most crowded Short: BZ 70.4% Short

Funding rate (Binance)

  • AGT +0.0325% Longs pay
  • SPCX +0.0255% Longs pay
  • NEAR +0.0100% Longs pay
  • IOST -1.2820% Shorts pay
  • BTW -0.3472% Shorts pay
  • SAMSUNG -0.0237% 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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