Leverage


Markets

Crypto Leverage Hits Record High in Q3 as DeFi Dominance Reshapes Market Structure: Galaxy

Onchain lending drove crypto-collateralized debt to a new peak in last quarter, but the leverage underpinning the market is now better collateralized than during the previous cycle.

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Markets

Crypto Liquidity Still Hollow After October Crash, Risking Sharp Price Swings

Despite calmer prices after October’s brutal leverage wipeout, bitcoin and ether market depth remains structurally thin, creating a more fragile trading environment.

Liquidity void in crypto persists (Simon Hurry/Unsplash)

Markets

South Korea Tells Crypto Firms to Stop Launching New Lending Products as Leverage Risk Builds

Regulators froze new lending products after forced liquidations and market distortions, but some analysts say improvements, not shutdowns, are the smarter path forward.

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Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: Crypto's Rising Leverage Trades Show Signs of Stress, Galaxy Digital Says

Crypto loans are back near bull-market highs, but last week’s $1B liquidation shows leverage is cutting both ways.

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Markets

Strategy Bears Cave In as Anti-MSTR Leveraged ETF Hits Rock Bottom

The Defiance daily target 2x short MSTR ETF fell to a record low for the fourth consecutive day.

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Markets

Bitcoin Rockets Past $118K, Leads to Over $1B Shorts Getting Liquidated

Roughly 237,000 traders were liquidated in total, with the single largest hit being an $88.5 million BTC-USDT short on HTX.

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Finance

HyperLiquid Trader Turns $10M Profit Into $2.5M Loss as Bitcoin Falls

The trader also lost $12.5 million on a bitcoin long last week.

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Markets

Leverage Reconfigures in Q1: DeFi Recovers, CeFi Quietly Expands, Treasury Debt Mounts

Galaxy’s latest report shows crypto leverage fell overall, but structural shifts in DeFi, CeFi and treasury financing signal rising interdependence and hidden risk.

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Markets

Hyperliquid Loses $4M After Whale's Over $200M Ether Trade Unwinds

The whale liquidation saw wallet ‘0xf3f4’ opening a highly leveraged 50x ETH long position, depositing $4.3 million in USDC as margin for a total size of 113,000 ETH.

A whale tailfin sinks below the ocean surface. (Paola Ocaranza/Unsplash)

CoinDesk Indices

In Defense of the ‘MSTR Premium’

The premium given to the company’s massive bitcoin holdings will exist as long as investors believe it will continue to increase the amount of its bitcoin held per share.

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