Ethereum Investors Want Out
Investors in the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum, have been rapidly liquidating their holdings in the last week. This has been a long time in the making but no one could have truly anticipated how bloody the market would get. Following the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, the value of Ethereum has plunged significantly but even more interesting is the amount of sell-offs that are causing the digital asset’s price to crash.Related Reading | Bitcoin Selloff Provides Boost To Miner Fee Revenues
Elsewhere, traders are taking the same decisions as investors holding the digital asset. Liquidations have been on a high lately with reporting that Ethereum liquidations have touched as high as $350 million in a single 24-hour period.
Ethereum falls below $2,000 | Source:This is also . The liquidations in this part of the market have now reached a new six-month high on leading crypto exchange Binance. The previous six-month high had been recorded at $3,882,796.27 but presently, this number sits at $4,393,678.09 as observed by Glassnode.
Even More Bad News
Ethereum indicators show signs of a bear from all angles. The is reported to have reached a new 5-month high, currently sitting at 1,083,569.884 ETH active on the last day. This indicates that investors are moving more of their ETH, presumably to exchanges to sell off.Related Reading | Bitcoin Funding Rates Remain Unmoved Despite Plunge To $30,000
Open interest in perpetual futures contracts is also reported to have reached a new 9-month for the digital asset on Bybit and a 19-month low in Bitmex. The digital asset continues to trade in the red. At the time of this writing, ETH is trading at a price of $1,900. It’s currently sitting at a total market cap of $229 billion, the lowest it has been in 10 months.Featured image from CYBAVO, chart from TradingView.com