Ethereum falls 6%, leaving $1.35 billion in long bets at risk of liquidation

Ethereum’s slide toward $2,500 has put about $1.35 billion of leveraged long positions at increasing risk of liquidation. CoinMarketCap data showed roughly $1.35 billion of ETH long exposure sat at liquidation levels below the prevailing price, compared with about $999.78 million of shorts vulnerable above it. The figures represent positions exposed across a range of […] The post Ethereum falls 6%, leaving $1.35 billion in long bets at risk of liquidation appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Key Takeaways
- Ethereum’s slide toward $2,500 has put about $1.35 billion of leveraged long positions at increasing risk of liquidation.
- CoinMarketCap data showed roughly $1.35 billion of ETH long exposure sat at liquidation levels below the prevailing price, compared with about $999.78 million of shorts vulnerable above it.
- The figures represent positions exposed across a range of […] The post Ethereum falls 6%, leaving $1.35 billion in long bets at risk of liquidation appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Summary generated by IndiCrypto from CryptoSlate. IndiCrypto is a news aggregator and does not provide investment advice. Read the original article for full context.
More in Security

Hunter Biden confirms LAPTOP token ‘not a rug pull,’ just trolling Trumps
“Trump’s coin was max extraction, and I wanted to troll every grift like it,“ said Hunter Biden in a breakdown of the memecoin launch and fallout.
Crypto Was the Experiment. Now Wall Street Is Taking the Best Parts
The first decade of crypto can be seen as a sequence of bubbles, hacks, memes, and projects that disappeared almost as quickly as they appeared. I see a decade of financial experimentation. An open, global laboratory operating 24/7, with an unusual…
Major DeFi Protocol Patches Vulnerability Before Funds Affected
A leading decentralised finance protocol has patched a smart-contract vulnerability identified by independent security researchers. The team says the flaw was fixed before any user funds were affected, and a bug-bounty reward was paid to the reporting…