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Ethereum went from $2,347 to $2,220 while most of you were sleeping. A 5.4% peak-to-trough move that wiped out $78 million in liquidations in just 4 hours. The biggest single rekt position? A $7.9 million long on Binance that got vaporized in seconds.
If you're holding ETH right now, you need to understand what just happened and what comes next. Because this wasn't a normal dip. This was a leveraged-position massacre.
THE ETH DAMAGE REPORT
Current price: $2,231. Down 2.74% on the day. That makes ETH the worst performer among the major cap coins. BTC is only down 0.95%. SOL is down 1.96%. Even BONK at -3.51% is in the same ballpark. But ETH is a $233 billion asset. A 2.74% drop on that market cap is $6.4 billion in value erased.
The liquidation data is even uglier than the price chart:
Last 4 hours: $78 million in ETH liquidations. That's the #1 liquidated asset across all of crypto. Bitcoin, with more than 3x the market cap, only saw $66.66 million in the same period.
The single largest liquidation across ALL exchanges and ALL assets was that $7.9M ETHUSDT long on Binance. One position. Gone. When I saw that number flash on CoinGlass, I knew this was going to be a bad morning for ETH bulls.
Last 1 hour alone: ETH liquidations kept pouring in even as the initial drop slowed. The forced selling is creating a feedback loop — liquidations push price down, which triggers more liquidations.
WHY ETH GOT HIT HARDER THAN BTC
There are three reasons Ethereum is leading the bloodbath today.
First, ETH has been the retail leverage darling of 2026. Bitcoin got the ETF flows and the institutional attention. ETH got the degens. Futures open interest on ETH has been exploding relative to BTC, which means more leveraged longs to liquidate when the market turns.
Second, the ETH/BTC ratio has been bleeding for months. When BTC drops, ETH typically drops harder because it's already been underperforming. The ratio hit new lows this week. That weak technical structure meant there were no natural buyers waiting to step in.
Third, ETH's support levels are thinner. Bitcoin has massive ETF bid support around $75,000 and $73,000. ETH doesn't have that institutional backstop. When leveraged longs get liquidated, there's no Binance or BlackRock desk buying the dip. It falls until natural demand appears.
THE TECHNICAL PICTURE
ETH broke below $2,250 which was the key support that had held since mid-April. The next support cluster is at $2,200 — exactly where we bounced this morning. Below that? $2,100. And if $2,100 breaks, the path to $2,000 opens fast.
On the upside, $2,280 is now resistance. That's the breakdown level. Until ETH reclaims $2,280 on a 4H close, every bounce is a selling opportunity, not a buying one.
The RSI on the 4H chart is at 32. Not oversold yet. In strong liquidation cascades, RSI can dip to 20 before a real bounce. Don't catch a falling knife because it "looks cheap."
The 200-day moving average for ETH is sitting around $2,450 — which is now $200 above current price. That gap tells you how much damage has been done to the long-term technical structure.
MY ETH PLAN
I'm not touching ETH long until I see three things:
1. A 4H close back above $2,280
2. Funding rates flip from negative to neutral or positive
3. Open interest stops dropping and starts climbing again
That third point is the most important. Open interest dropped 1.98% across the market. For ETH specifically, the OI flush means the weak leverage is leaving. When OI starts climbing again with price holding, that's smart money entering. That's when I buy.
Short-term hedge: I have a small ETH short from $2,300 targeting $2,150. It's hedging my spot bags. If $2,200 breaks, I let it run to $2,100 with a trailing stop.
The ETH/BTC ratio trade is also interesting. At current levels, you're getting more ETH per BTC than you have in months. If you believe in the altcoin recovery thesis, swapping some BTC for ETH here isn't the worst risk/reward
Where do you think ETH bottoms — $2,200, $2,100, or are we going all the way to $2,000?
Give me your exact ETH target and I'll tell you if the setup makes sense 👇
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If you were leveraged long this morning, you already know what happened. For everyone else still sitting in cash, let me show you why this was the most brutal liquidation cascade in weeks — and why it might not be over yet.

I track liquidation data every single day. Yesterday morning the 24h total was $231 million. Respectable. Normal range. This morning? $529.95 million. That's a 174% explosion in liquidations in less than 24 hours. And the composition tells a terrifying story.
THE NUMBERS THAT WILL MAKE YOU SWEAT
In the last 24 hours, 123,125 traders got liquidated. Yesterday that number was 79,663. We added 43,462 rekt traders in one day.
But here's the part that should wake you up:
Total longs liquidated: $346.48 million
Total shorts liquidated: $183.47 million
Longs took 65.4% of all liquidations. That's not a normal market. In a healthy correction, the split is closer to 50/50. When longs dominate liquidations this hard, it means the entire market was positioned bullish — and wrong.
The last hour alone was a massacre:
Total liquidated: $201.22 million
Longs: $196.13 million
Shorts: $5.09 million
That's 97.5% long liquidations in a single hour. I've been doing this for years and I rarely see a number that lopsided. It means every bullish position that was built on leverage this week got margin-called simultaneously.
BY EXCHANGE — WHO GOT HIT THE HARDEST
Binance took the biggest hit in the last 4 hours with $114.84 million in liquidations. 92.66% were longs. If you were trading on Binance with leverage this morning, you had a 9-in-10 chance of getting rekt if you were long.
Hyperliquid: $67.12 million (70.19% longs)
Bybit: $41.35 million (96.83% longs)
Bitget: $24.94 million (96.12% longs)
Gate: $30 million (94.04% longs)
Even on Hyperliquid — the exchange known for sophisticated traders — 70% of liquidations were longs. That's not retail being dumb. That's smart money getting caught wrong-footed.
BY ASSET — WHO LED THE BLOODBATH
Ethereum took the crown for most liquidated asset in the last 4 hours with $78 million. Bitcoin followed at $66.66 million. Solana got hit for $17.96 million.
The single largest liquidation order happened on Binance — an ETHUSDT long worth $7.9 million. One trader. One position. $7.9 million evaporated.
Let me say that again. One single ETH long on Binance lost $7.9 million. That trader went to bed bullish and woke up with nothing.
WHAT TRIGGERED THIS
The setup was there if you knew where to look. Yesterday I wrote about the $120.87 billion in open interest and the negative funding. The market was carrying maximum leverage into Powell's final FOMC press conference.
Bitcoin was trading at $76,846. The overnight low? $74,937. That's a $2,462 drop from yesterday's high of $77,905. ETH got hit even harder — down from $2,347 to $2,220. A 5.4% swing peak-to-trough.
The post-FOMC pattern I warned about is playing out exactly as history predicted. The Fed held rates. Powell's tone was cautious. Risk assets sold off. And because the market was max leveraged long, the drop triggered a liquidation cascade that fed on itself.
Every stop loss that fired pushed price lower. Every margin call forced more selling. It's a feedback loop that doesn't stop until the leverage is flushed.
IS THE BLOODLETTING OVER?
Open interest dropped from $120.87 billion to $118.06 billion. That's a $2.81 billion decrease. Positions are being forced closed across the board. That flush is actually bullish for the next leg up — it clears out the weak hands.
But we're not done yet. In my experience, liquidation cascades have three waves:
Wave 1: The initial drop takes out obvious leverage. We just saw this.
Wave 2: Traders try to buy the dip with fresh leverage and get stopped out again.
Wave 3: True capitulation where even spot holders start panic-selling.
We're currently in late Wave 1 or early Wave 2. The $74,937 low on BTC needs to hold. If we retest that level and break it, Wave 3 begins and we see $72,000 fast.
My plan:
1. Not buying until I see funding flip positive and stay there
2. Watching BTC $74,900 as the line in the sand
3. ETH $2,200 needs to hold or we see $2,100 quickly
4. If we get a relief bounce to $76,500 without retesting the low, I'll start scaling in small
Are you still holding longs from higher prices, or did you get stopped out in this carnage?
Drop what price you got liquidated at — let's see who got hit the worst 👇

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