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Liquidations · 12 exchanges · a lower bound
$61.0M

liquidated on Nov 7: shorts $14M, longs $47M

Oct 9 – Nov 7longsshorts
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Hyperliquid liquidation map

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Liquidation prices as Hyperliquid itself reports them, position by position.

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  • ~139,000active Hyperliquid wallets read
  • 96%of the open money on Hyperliquid
  • 179markets on the map
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Source: Hyperliquid, liquidation prices from the exchange
$544Mforced selling if BTC falls 15%
$186Mforced buying if it rises 15%
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longs closed below the priceshorts closed above

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Where are the liquidations?

leverage, open bets, funding and forced closes

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22 charts

Hyperliquid maps

Where forced closes sitLiquidation mapEach map: where the leveraged bets on Hyperliquid would be closed by force, and how much — a floor for the whole venue. This map covers 96% of all open money on Hyperliquid · ~139,000 active wallets. The heatmap shows the same map day by day.
Where bets would be closed by force, day by dayLiquidation heatmapThe same map stacked one column per day since Aug-13: watch price walk into the walls. Real positions, not a model.
Hyperliquid: full population mapFull population mapEvery open bet on Hyperliquid, market by market — the funding-frame population.

Forced closes

Bets closed by forceLiquidation eventsLongs and shorts wiped out per day: Bybit, OKX, dYdX and Binance on 21 coins, Bybit over every contract, Gate's public window, plus the Hyperliquid fills we can label.
Which coin got flushedLiquidations by coinForced closes broken out by coin, not just by exchange — 21 coins, four live feeds.🔔 > $11M

Bybit

Bybit on one board: contracts, open bets, forced closesBybit boardOur own 15-minute panel of Bybit's linear contracts and our own capture of its liquidation stream on one board: how many contracts, how much money, what was closed by force, crypto against TradFi.
What was liquidated on Bybit, contract by contractBybit liquidationsOur own capture of Bybit's liquidation stream: the last 24 hours contract by contract, crypto against TradFi, and where the week's liquidations landed.

Open interest

How much is bet, venue by venueOpen interestEvery open perpetual bet we can see, venue by venue, counted one side only — 18 venues, from our own five-minute capture and the exchanges' own archives.🔔 > $35.00B
Open bets by exchangeOpen interest by exchangeHow many bets are open on each exchange, snapshot by snapshot.🔔 > 110,000 BTC
How much is bet against what sits on exchangesEstimated leverage ratio (ELR)Open bets on bitcoin, in coins, divided by the coins sitting on the exchanges we map. Both halves measured here.🔔 > 0.11000
The regulated ledgerCME bitcoin futuresThe one bitcoin venue that answers to a regulator: contracts open on CME and who holds them, week by week, from the exchange's own file and the CFTC.

Who leans where

Which way the crowd leans, exchange by exchangeLong / short ratio by venueLong-short ratios from Bybit, OKX and Gate on 20 coins — our own hourly capture on top of each venue's own daily archive, back to 2025-05-03 — including the Gate cuts nobody publishes for free.🔔 > 78.0%
Open bets and who leans whereBinance futuresHow many bets are open on Binance perpetuals and who leans where. Hourly capture, one value a day.🔔 > $8.00B
Who borrowed to bet, and which wayBitfinex margin longs / shortsFive and a half years of the only exchange that publishes every margin position, long and short, by pair.🔔 > 100,000
What it costs to borrow a coinBorrow rateThe margin rate Binance charges on seven coins, turned into a yearly number — plus how much of each of 166 coins it will lend at all.🔔 > +0.53%

Funding and basis

What each coin pays to stay leveragedFunding rate by coinThe funding fee on 21 coins across five venues — our own five-second capture on top of each venue's own funding archive, back to 2019.🔔 > +0.004%
Funding on five venues, one clockFunding matrixWhat each coin costs to hold on five exchanges, every rate put on one clock: per 8 hours and per year, from our own 5-second capture.
Who pays whom on BinanceBinance funding rateThe fee longs and shorts pay each other on Binance, every 8 hours.🔔 > +0.005%
Who pays whom on Bybit's perpsFunding breadthAcross Bybit's token perps: who pays whom. Crowds, not coins.🔔 > 14.0%
What Hyperliquid longs pay, since 2023Hyperliquid funding historyWhat longs pay shorts every hour on Hyperliquid, three coins, back to the venue's first months.🔔 > +0.0014%
How far bets sit from the pricePerp premiumHow far bets sit from the real price on five exchanges, 21 coins. Captured every 5 seconds, one daily average.🔔 < −4.5 bp
Where the perp trades away from the real pricePerp basisFive exchanges, 21 coins, every minute: how far each perpetual sits from spot and how often it flips sides — our own capture on top of each venue's own premium archive, back to 2019.🔔 < −5.1 bp

Who is buying, who is selling?

ETFs, treasuries, exchange flows and where the dollars sit

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16 charts

ETFs and treasuries

Money in and out of the crypto ETFsSpot ETF flowsDaily money in and out of the US spot crypto ETFs: bitcoin, ether and 13 more coins, from launch day.🔔 < −$450M
Who is buying the ETFs, by issuerSpot ETF flows by issuerThe same daily ETF flows, split by fund: who took the money in, who paid it out, and the days they disagreed.🔔 > $61.00B
Who holds bitcoin on the balance sheetBitcoin treasuriesPublic companies that hold bitcoin, each number from the company's own filing, and every 8-K they file that says «bitcoin».

Exchange flows

Coins in and out of exchangesExchange netflowCoins arriving at and leaving the exchanges we map ourselves, day by day.🔔 < −3,900 BTC
How many coins the exchanges holdExchange reserves by venueThe coins sitting on exchange addresses, venue by venue, from our own address map — anchored to a public snapshot, carried by our own flows.🔔 > 1,800,000 BTC
Exchange deposits by sizeExchange inflow by transaction sizeThe coins arriving at exchanges each day, split by how big the single deposit was: retail, a desk, a fund, a whale.🔔 > 58.0%
Exchange flows, hour by hourExchange flowsCoins in and out of every mapped exchange on two clocks: the hour the block confirmed the move, and the hour we first saw it in the mempool.
Where bitcoin actually tradesExchange volume, venue by venue (spot and perpetuals)Dollars of bitcoin traded each day on 23 venues, spot and perpetuals kept apart, from the exchanges' own daily candles — with every book's day measured, not assumed.🔔 > $1.70B

Premiums

US price vs the world, dailyCoinbase premiumUS buyers vs the world, on daily exchange closes, our own rebuild.🔔 < −16.0 bp
US vs world price, inside the dayCoinbase premiumEach day's high, mean and low of the Coinbase-vs-Binance gap, from our hourly rebuild since 2017. The hours themselves stay off the free site.🔔 < −13.0 bp
What Korea pays over the worldKorea (kimchi) premiumThe same bitcoin, quoted in Seoul and quoted offshore, and the gap between them — nine years of it.🔔 < −4.6 bp

Stablecoins

Stablecoins sitting on exchangesExchange stablecoin reserveThe dollars exchanges hold in stablecoins on Ethereum, rebuilt transfer by transfer from our own address map.🔔 > $54.00B
Stablecoins created and destroyedStablecoin mint / burnDollars printed and shredded on-chain: USDT and USDC created and destroyed.
When a dollar stops being a dollarStablecoin peg deviationEight years of how far USDC drifts from one dollar, and how far it drifted in the hours nobody was watching.🔔 > +13.0 bp

Taker flow

Buyers or sellers hitting the marketTaker flowBuyers or sellers hitting the market: taker buys minus taker sells. Four exchanges on our tape, Binance since 2019.🔔 < −$260M
Who was hitting the market, coin by coinTaker buy / sellTaker buys minus taker sells on 21 coins across four exchanges — our own minute tape on top of Binance's public archive, back to 2019.🔔 < −$260M

What are the whales doing?

large arrivals, old coins waking up, big books and block trades

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18 charts

Big arrivals and books

The ten largest arrivals at each exchangeExchange whale ratioHow much of the day's arriving coin sat in just ten transactions per exchange — and how much of the whole chain's movement went to an exchange.🔔 > 0.580
Which way Hyperliquid's mid-size books leanHL book size classesHyperliquid positions by book size: how the $10–100M, $1–10M and smaller books split their dollars between long and short, coin by coin. Daily free, hourly on Tape. No addresses.
Wallets with a bet openHyperliquid active walletsHow many wallets had a bet open on Hyperliquid each day, since its early days.

Old coins moving

Old coins movingCoin days destroyed (CDD)Every coin that moved, weighed by how long it had been sitting still.🔔 > 10,000,000
How long the moved coins had sat stillDormancyHow long the coins that moved had been sitting — and how old the ones that stayed are.
The coins that moved, by ageSpent output age bandsThe day's spending split by the age of the coins spent.🔔 > 6,900 BTC
Coins sorted by how long heldHODL wavesAll coins in thirteen age bands: how many, what they cost, what they paid.🔔 > 14,000,000 BTC
Coin-days alive, by age bandSupply-adjusted coin age distributionThe same thirteen age bands as the supply page, but weighed by age: who holds the chain's patience.🔔 > 90.00%
Short- and long-term holdersSTH / LTH supplyCoins held under 155 days and coins held longer, in BTC.🔔 > 4,200,000 BTC

Miners

What the pools were paid, and when they moved itMiner flows, first hop (payout addresses)What the pools were paid at their published payout addresses, and when they moved it off them — read on our own node.🔔 > 350 BTC

Options and block trades

Where the bitcoin options betBTC options boardMax pain, the wall of open bets and the chance the market prices for every strike — the whole Deribit bitcoin board, ours, every hour.
Where the option board hurts mostETH optionsDeribit's entire ether option board, read every hour: put-call ratio, at-the-money volatility, skew, and the strike that maximises pain.🔔 > $2,500
Bitcoin option gamma, calls and puts apartBTC dealer gammaHow much the hedge of every open bitcoin option moves per 1 % in price — calls and puts apart, by expiry, strike and hour, from our own Deribit snapshots.
Ether option gamma, calls and puts apartETH dealer gammaHow much the hedge of every open ether option moves per 1 % in price — calls and puts apart, by expiry, strike and hour, from our own Deribit snapshots.
Deribit block trades, read as structuresDeribit block tradesLarge option trades agreed off the book, put back together as structures: the largest of the day and the week, and block dollars per day.
Every options trade we heardOptions trades tapeEvery Deribit option trade, added up per day: our own capture since Jul-06 2026 on top of Deribit's public trade archive, back to 2016.🔔 > $240.0M

Order books

Money waiting to tradeOrder-book depthMoney waiting to buy and to sell at the top of five exchanges' order books (a floor of the 1 % depth), and the heaviest $10 price step.🔔 < −$2.4M
Which coins actually have money waitingOrder-book depthThe top of the order books of seventy coins on up to five exchanges, snapshotted every thirty seconds — for the biggest coins a floor, not a total.🔔 > $150.0M

What is the price doing?

trend, cycle, seasonality and how big a move is priced in

All 21 charts in this section

21 charts

Price and cycle

Bitcoin's price since 2010BTC priceMt.Gox · Bitstamp · Binance, hourly since 2010
Any coin: price, drawdown and the bounceSingle-coin tapePrice since listing, drawdown from the record close, bounce off the low, and where a coin stands against a level you name.
Days since the record highCycle clockTwo clocks: from each record down to its bottom, and from each bottom up to the next record.
Halving clockHalving cycleWhere the lows landed before each halving.

Trend and momentum

How stretched the price isRSIHow stretched the price is: up-days against down-days over two weeks, and what followed each extreme.🔔 > 42.0
Golden and death crossesMoving-average crossesSix pairs of averages: every golden and death cross since 2013, and what price did after.
Weekly doors, 12 weeks laterWeekly close vs six-week range doorsWeekly closes above or below the 6-week range, and what followed.

Calendar

Which months were kind to bitcoinBitcoin by calendar monthEvery calendar month of bitcoin, one bar per year: the median move, how many of those years finished up, and the best and worst of them.
Which months were kind to etherEther by calendar month and quarterEvery calendar month and quarter of ether, one bar per year: the median move, how many finished up, and the best and worst of them.
Days people watchEvent-day returnsApple media events (keynotes), month-ends, jobs-report days: what the tape did.

Breadth and mood

The crowd's mood, 0 to 100Fear & Greed indexThe index everyone quotes, and the measurement that shows it follows the month already gone.🔔 > 28
The whole crypto marketTOTALTOTAL, the market without bitcoin (TOTAL2) and without ether too (OTHERS), with what share the two big coins hold.🔔 > $2.80T
Bitcoin's share of the marketBTC dominanceHow much of all the money in crypto sits in bitcoin — with a second, independent count drawn beside the first.🔔 > 65.0%
How much of crypto sits in dollarsUSDT dominance (USDT.D)USDT.D and the whole stablecoin pile: the share, and the dollars behind it.🔔 > 7.60%
Ether priced in bitcoinETH/BTCWhat one ether costs in bitcoin, with its 200-day average and the distance to it.🔔 > 0.03200
Coins beating bitcoinAlt breadthShare of Binance coins beating bitcoin over 7 and 30 days.🔔 > 24.0%

The next move

How big the next move may beNext move sizeOne UTC day, either way: our own band on Binance hourly candles, graded daily.
How big a move is priced inDVOLHow much movement options expect over 30 days.🔔 > 44.0
Expected move, week and monthIV surfaceHow big a move options price in for the next week and month, BTC and ETH.🔔 > 41.0%
Which prints first?Level-hit probability matrixTwo levels and a deadline: how often the upper one printed first, how often the lower one, how often neither. BTC, ETH and SOL.
Same-day odds on the betting marketsPolymarket and Kalshi, side by side, on the same bitcoin strikes, captured once an hour.🔔 > $83,000

Is bitcoin cheap or expensive?

what the coins cost the people who hold them, from our own ledger

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Cost and price

What the average coin costRealized priceThe average price every coin was last moved at.🔔 > $59,000
Market price vs average costMVRV ratioThe last close against the average price everyone paid.🔔 > ×1.50
The market's total costRealized capWhat all coins are worth at the price they last moved.🔔 > $1.20T

Profit and loss

Paper profit of the ledger's coinsNUPLPaper profit of the ledger's coins, as a share of what the market is worth.🔔 > +0.32
Coins in profitSupply in profitShare of all coins worth more than when they last moved.🔔 > 64.0%
Moved at a profit or at a lossSOPRDid the coins that moved on the day change hands at a profit or at a loss: what they sold for over what they cost.🔔 > 1.100
One number for the market's paper profitP&L indexThe market's paper profit and its cost basis, folded into one line, plus its cycle view.🔔 < −0.30

Activity and miners

Market worth against what it movesNVT ratioWhat the market is worth against the dollars the chain actually carried that day.🔔 > ×21.00
How often the supply changes handsCoin velocityHow many times a year the average coin changes hands.🔔 > ×16.00
Miner pay against its own yearPuell multipleWhat the miners were paid on the day against their own last twelve months.
Dry powder against bitcoinStablecoin supply ratio (SSR)How much bitcoin one dollar of stablecoins has to buy — against every stablecoin, not a frozen shortlist.🔔 > ×5.70

What else moves bitcoin?

the network itself, other chains, macro and the markets beside it

All 18 charts in this section

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The bitcoin network

Payments per dayTransactions per dayHow many payments the network handled each day.
Mining power and difficultyHashrate & difficultyHow much computing power guards the network, read from block headers on our own node.🔔 > 1100.0 EH/s
The network's daily vitalsActive addressesNew coins and unspent outputs counted on our own node; addresses and moved coins from a public block explorer's chart.🔔 > 460 BTC
Who mined the blocks, and what they were paidBlock rewards by poolWho mined each block and what it paid: our own reading of every coinbase signature since 2022.🔔 > 470 BTC
Our ledger against the nodeLedger guardThe guard under every ledger page: how much of the mined coin our ledger accounts for, every day since 2009.

Other chains

Ether locked into stakingETH staking depositsEther locked into staking each day, and who sends it.🔔 > 27,000 ETH
The ledger that burns its own coinXRP LedgerThirteen years of XRP: ledgers closed, fees paid, and the coins destroyed by those fees, read from the chain.🔔 > 5,300,000
The chain that runs on rentTron networkTron sells energy and bandwidth instead of charging per transaction — here is how much of it gets burned each day.🔔 > 14,000,000
What Hyperliquid buys back vs burnsHYPE buyback & burnWhat Hyperliquid's Assistance Fund buys per UTC day, kept apart from the HYPE actually destroyed; Aug-19 → Sep-03: 16 days loaded from a public explorer's balance snapshots, total checked against the fund's balance 518,513.06 HYPE.

Macro

The US 10-year yield, and bitcoin beside itUS10Y vs BTCWhat the US government pays to borrow for ten years, next to bitcoin — and what bitcoin did after every 50 bp move in it.🔔 > 5.30%
US money supply, and bitcoin beside itM2 vs BTCThe Fed's count of spendable dollars beside bitcoin — with the publication lag printed as a date, not hidden.
The Fed's balance sheet, week by weekFed balance sheetEverything the Federal Reserve owns, every Wednesday since 2002 — the level and the 12-week change in dollars.
When the US numbers printMacro release calendarThe CPI, jobs, PPI, retail, GDP, PCE and FOMC dates we hold since 1947 — and what bitcoin did on those days.

Against other assets

Bitcoin against gold, silver and oilBTC / XAUHow many ounces of gold, ounces of silver and barrels of oil one bitcoin buys, on closes of the same session.🔔 > 20.0
Bitcoin against the US stock marketBTC vs SPXThe S&P 500, the Nasdaq and the Dow next to bitcoin, and how far each moved over the same 60 days.🔔 > 8,100
Gold, oil and Tesla on a crypto exchangeTradFi perpsBybit lists perpetuals on metals, oil, index funds and single stocks — here is what actually trades on them.🔔 > $4,500

Listings

What the exchanges added, and what they droppedListings & delistingsEvery Bybit and OKX announcement we have heard, sorted into new listings against delistings, counted by the week we heard it.
Binance's doorsBinance perp listings & delistingsNew leverage doors per week, tokens vs stocks, gold and oil, names on hover.

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