Bitcoin Open Interest Hits Lowest Level In 2025, Is A Pump Or Crash Coming Next?

Following the crash to $35k, the Bitcoin open interest has declined to September 2021 levels. This may suggest that the market volatility will be lesser in the near future. Bitcoin Open Interest Drops To Similar Levels As In September 2021 As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC open interest has decreased to similar levels as last September following the crash. The “open interest” is an indicator that measures the total amount of Bitcoin futures contracts currently open in the derivatives market. The metric accounts for both long and short positions. When....

The Bitcoin crash of last week was a brutal one for the market. It saw the digital asset lose its footing from where it had been trending just below $30,000 to crash to the mid $17,000s before a recovery had begun. With the new week, the market had started to emerge into the green. But as bitcoin struggles to hold above $20,000, the question remains what had triggered such a crash. A Short Squeeze The bitcoin open interest in perps had been up over the last couple of weeks. This has continued to be the case through the market crash and the subsequent recovery. However, the open interest....

Yearn.finance’s YFI token failed to gain any momentum following yesterday’s sharp rebound following a brief dip below $10,000. The cryptocurrency is now on the cusp of once again breaking below this level, with the immense selling pressure coming about as open interest for the token reaches an all-time high. Although the sell-side of YFI’s order […]

Ethereum’s price action appears to be setting the stage for a major move that could redefine its market trajectory by the end of 2025. Although recent months have seen the cryptocurrency’s price lose its footing, technical analysis shows that this phase might be coming to an end. Particularly, Ethereum is now trading close to a support level that could cause an upward bounce towards $4,000 by the end of 2025. Strong Demand Zone Shows Ethereum Bottoming Out Ethereum’s price action throughout 2025 has been bearish, marked by a series of structural breakdowns that have erased much of....

Over the last couple of weeks, the Bitcoin open interest had been on a downtrend that sent it toward one-year lows. However, with the Grayscale victory against the SEC coming on Tuesday, August 29, and sending a positive wave across the entire region, open interest in the digital asset has begun to surge once more. Bitcoin Open Interest Pulls A Quick Reversal On-chain data tracking platform Kaiko reported on Tuesday, August 29, that the Bitcoin open interest had been on the decline for a while. In the chart shared by the tracker, it is obvious that this BTC metric had previously fallen....