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Bullish crypto bets lose $1.6 billion as ETH, SOL, DOGE drop 9%

Bullish crypto bets lose $1.6 billion as ETH, SOL, DOGE drop 9%

CryptoNewsNetCryptoNewsNet2026/06/03 05:30
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Bullish crypto bets lose $1.6 billion as ETH, SOL, DOGE drop 9%

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Crypto traders hoping the market would catch up to the global stock rally were left nursing tears on Wednesday as a sharp price drop triggered the largest liquidation event since early February.

Roughly $1.84 billion in crypto leveraged positions were liquidated across the past 24 hours as bitcoin plunged below $66,000 and ether (ETH) broke under $1,900, the largest single-day wipeout since February 5 and a near-pure flush of long bets, with longs taking $1.66 billion of the total and shorts only $180 million, per CoinGlass data.

A liquidation is when an exchange automatically closes a leveraged trade because the trader's losses have exceeded the collateral they posted to open it. Long positions bet that the price will rise, while short positions are bets on prices falling.

Bitcoin longs absorbed $883.66 million of the damage, ether longs another $475.73 million and solana (SOL) longs $91.18 million, with the remaining roughly $390 million spread across HYPE, DOGE, SUI, BNB, NEAR, AAVE, LINK and the broader top-30 long book.

The single largest order was a $59.67 million $BTC-USDT long unwinding on HTX.

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Binance accounted for $748 million of the total liquidations, or roughly 41% of the cascade, with 89% of those positions long. Hyperliquid handled $314 million, of which 94% were longs, and Bybit logged $247 million with 93% longs.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin open interest, the total value of all unsettled leveraged futures contracts, actually rose during the cascade.

The contract count climbed from roughly 759,000 $BTC to 788,600 $BTC even as the long book was being wiped out, per CoinGlass data. Rising open interest into a falling price can indicate new short positions are opening rather than long positions closing, signaling that fresh bearish bets are building on top of the long flush rather than the cascade finding a clearing level.

The positioning split is uneven across trader types. Retail bitcoin traders on Binance, OKX and Bybit are still leaning long at ratios of 2.22, 2.01 and 1.58 respectively, refusing to capitulate even after the wipeout, while whale accounts on OKX have flipped to a 0.54 long-short ratio that CoinGlass flags as 'extremely bearish.'

Aggregate taker volume across the period showed $65.39 billion in sells against $60.16 billion in buys, with sellers as the marginal actors.

OI rising into a falling price, retail still leaning long, and whale accounts flipping short on OKX all point to a market that has not found a clearing level. A break below $65,000 brings $60,000 into play; a hold opens the door to a relief bounce, but the positioning data argues against the bounce being the more likely outcome.

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