Crypto Crash: Liquidations Soar 400% as Fear Index Hits Extreme Lows

Updated on Mar 10, 2025 at 12:03 pm UTC by · 3 mins read

The market-wide investor sentiment is seeing a strong bearish momentum after the crypto liquidations chart skyrockets.

The market-wide investor sentiment is seeing a strong bearish momentum after the crypto liquidations chart skyrockets.

Crypto Market Goes Red as $634 Million Liquidations Surface | Source: coin360.com

According to data from Coinglass, the total daily crypto liquidations increased by over 400% in the past 24 hours, reaching a whopping $690 million. Most of the liquidated positions are longs, worth $546 million, while short traders lost roughly $142 million.

Bitcoin BTC $85 599 24h volatility: 4.5% Market cap: $1.71 T Vol. 24h: $49.25 B is leading the pack with $271 million in liquidations ($217 million longs and $54 million shorts) in 24 hours. The asset’s price swings between $80,000 and $86,000. Bitcoin is currently hovering around the $84,000 mark, down 2.2% over the last day.

Ethereum ETH $2 913 24h volatility: 6.6% Market cap: $351.92 B Vol. 24h: $29.67 B  is second to Bitcoin with $122 million in liquidations—$96 million in longs and $26 million in shorts.

Interestingly, during the recent marketwide downturn, Bybit’s $232 million liquidations surpassed Binance’s $206 million liquidations. The largest single liquidation order still happened on the Binance exchange and is worth $32 million in the BTC/USDT pair, per data from Coinglass.

The latest set of liquidations comes as the crypto market struggles to recover from the massive weekend selloff. According to data provided by CoinMarketCap, the global cryptocurrency market capitalization is currently sitting at $2.75 trillion, down 2.3% in the past 24 hours.

On the other hand, the daily crypto trading volume has doubled to $110 billion. The rising trading activity could suggest a potential buying spree ahead but the CMC Fear and Greed Index dived from 39 to 17 over the past week, showing “extreme fear” among traders and investors.

One of the main reasons behind the mass selloff could be the whale profit-taking after a strong Bitcoin accumulation last week. Bitcoin whales and sharks — addresses holding at least 10 BTC — purchased 4,846 BTC over the past week, according to data from Santiment.

The chart provided by the market intelligence platform shows that Bitcoin’s whale accumulation usually faces a selloff from short-term traders.

If the short-term selling pressure cools down, whales and sharks would likely start accumulating the flagship digital currency.

Another long-term bullish driver for the market, specifically Bitcoin, could be U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a national Bitcoin reserve, CoinSpeaker reported last week.

Trump signed the executive order to store the 200,000 BTC, seized from criminal addresses, as a long-term asset.

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