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The cryptocurrency market, which was intoxicated by excessive optimism, entered a painful deleveraging phase, experiencing approximately $500 million in forced liquidations in just one day.
According to the crypto media outlet U.Today on April 30 (local time), positions worth approximately $492 million were forcibly liquidated across the entire cryptocurrency market over the past 24 hours, with most of them concentrated in long positions that anticipated price increases. This incident is interpreted as a result of the market's excessive optimism, which failed to anticipate downward volatility.
The main targets of this downturn were Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). Bitcoin has been on a short-term uptrend, trading in the mid-$75,000 range, but its Relative Strength Index (RSI) entered an overbought zone during the sharp price increase, indicating an overloaded market. This liquidation near the resistance level is less about natural price consolidation and more about a cooling-off process where excessively set positions are forcibly closed.
Ethereum showed greater volatility, revealing a more vulnerable technical structure than Bitcoin. After failing to break through the downward resistance zone between $2,300 and $2,400, it was pushed back, following Bitcoin's decline. Ethereum was trading below key moving averages and lacked structural support to absorb external shocks, making it more sensitive to the liquidation event.
A heatmap visualizing the liquidation status clearly shows the severity of this event. The entire market appeared to be resetting, focusing on assets with the largest market capitalization rather than specific altcoins. In particular, liquidation volumes were concentrated in Ethereum and Bitcoin, with Bitcoin alone recording over $140 million in liquidations, freezing investor sentiment across the entire market.
Experts assess this phenomenon as a process of unwinding excessive leverage rather than a complete market collapse, but they are closely monitoring the price stabilization. There is still a possibility of a chain reaction of declines if Ethereum drops further below support levels or if Bitcoin's trend structure breaks down. Leverage remains the most vulnerable link in the cryptocurrency market.
*Disclaimer: This article is for investment reference only, and we are not responsible for investment losses based on it. The content should be interpreted for informational purposes only.*
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