Weekend Bloodbath: $250M in Longs Wiped as Open Interest Fades — Is the Market Shifting from Leverage to Spot?
The weekend was a massacre for leverage traders. Over $250 million in long...
Team and early investor shares released
92 million ARB released
Independent validator client goes live on mainnet
Block reward reduced to 3.125 BTC
Improves data availability sampling efficiency
Raises validator limit and account abstraction
Circulating supply increases by about 2%
Block reward halving event
Bitcoin Season
| # | Coin | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Bitcoin
BTC
|
$79,566.6 |
| 1 |
Ethereum
ETH
|
$2,451.99 |
| 1 |
Solana
SOL
|
$101.88 |
| 1 |
BNB Chain
BNB
|
$720.9 |
| 1 |
XRP Ledger
XRP
|
$1.4 |
| 1 |
Dogecoin
DOGE
|
$0.0847 |
| 1 |
Cardano
ADA
|
$0.2105 |
| 1 |
Avalanche
AVAX
|
$7.39 |
| 1 |
Polkadot
DOT
|
$0.8957 |
| 1 |
Chainlink
LINK
|
$11.68 |
Open Interest related articles
The weekend was a massacre for leverage traders. Over $250 million in long...
On August 12, 2026, XRP futures open interest hit 1.2 billion contracts,...
We didn't need another L1. We needed one that could actually handle the weigh...
Every hack is a lesson in trustless verification — even when that 'hack' is a...
Greed
Market Sentiment