#BTC ETF inflows have continued despite the recent pullback, showing that institutional demand remains steady even as derivatives traders get chopped.

This suggests structural buying is still underpinning the market, helping to absorb volatility and stabilize price action.

Analyzing the behavior of XRP investors who accumulated below ~$1, we see significant profit-taking as price surged above $2 (>100% gains). Two major realization waves—Dec 2024 and July 2025—have so far exhausted much of the market’s bullish momentum.

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🧵/1- While #Bitcoin corrected comparatively mildly, unsurprisingly, alts saw one of the sharpest daily drawdowns in years: the median return across alts was as low as –20%.

🧵/2 - Altcoin funding rates plunged to a median of -0.4 yesterday – levels not seen since the 2022 bear market. Today, they’ve reset and bounced back above zero, signaling a swift shift in positioning.

🧵/3 - We saw the largest open interest wipe-out in history. For #BTC alone, over $10B in open interest was erased across all major exchanges.

🧵/4- This was the largest liquidation event on record so far. And with incomplete reporting across exchanges, real figures are almost certainly larger.

🧵/5- Hyperliquid’s heatmap of #BTC liquidation clusters was virtually wiped clean. Levels both above and below spot were triggered, likely driven by a rapid buildup of liquidation levels in cross-margined accounts and traders closing positions in light of the events.

🧵/6- Our #BTC Long/Short Bias chart, tracking the aggregate net positions of the largest BTC traders on Hyperliquid, showed a steep rise in net shorts starting in October 6th, well before Friday's events. While levels have since recovered, they remain deeply negative.

Funding rates across the crypto market have plunged to their lowest levels since the depths of the 2022 bear market.

This marks one of the most severe leverage resets in crypto history, a clear sign of how aggressively speculative excess has been flushed from the system.

Friday’s wipeout triggered the largest futures liquidation in Bitcoin’s history. Over $11B in open interest was erased as leverage was forcefully unwound. A historic deleveraging event that has reset speculative excess across the market.

Bitcoin has stabilized above the 135-day moving average, while the Young Supply MVRV has reset toward 1.0. Together, these signal a market cooling from speculative extremes while maintaining structure.

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The recent sell-off occurred with over 90% of Bitcoin supply still in profit, with most losses coming from top buyers.

Unlike the FTX and Luna crashes, when under 65% of supply was in profit, this was not a broad capitulation but a structurally different, leverage-driven event.

This heatmap highlights the intensity of Open Interest decline across the top 100 assets last Friday, revealing just how widespread the liquidation pressure truly was.

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#BTC Options markets show net premium concentration at $115k–$130k, suggesting traders remain positioned for upside.

Despite the futures flush, call demand dominates, implying investors see the drawdown as a leverage reset.
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The Week On-Chain 41, 2025
Bitcoin’s rally to $126k reversed amid macro stress and a $19B futures wipeout. ETF inflows slowing and volatility spiking, the market enters a reset phase marked by a historic leverage flush.

Executive Summary
-Bitcoin’s rally to a new all-time high at $126.1k reversed amid macro tensions and a $19B futures deleveraging, one of the largest in history. The drop below the $117k–$114k cost-basis zone placed top buyers in loss and exposed renewed market fragility.
- On-chain data show continued Long-Term Holder distribution since July and weaker ETF inflows (-2.3k BTC this week), indicating fading institutional demand. Meanwhile, spot markets experienced a sharp but orderly sell-off, with Binance-driven selling partially offset by buying on Coinbase.
- Futures markets underwent a historic leverage flush, with the Estimated Leverage Ratio collapsing to multi-month lows and funding rates plunging to 2022 FTX levels, signalling peak fear and forced liquidations.
- In the options market, open interest and volume rebounded quickly, but volatility spiked to 76%, and short-dated skew flipped to +17% put-rich before stabilizing. The market remains in a reset phase, awaiting renewed demand to confirm recovery.



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