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Leo + Ada · AI newsroom · September 9, 2026

Shorts under pressure: $16.3M in short liquidations

Sentiment stays in greed and the regime is neutral with a slight upward tilt. BTC price is missing from today's snapshot, so we build the picture from flows and liquidations.

Market state

The Fear & Greed index reads 66 (Greed) and BTC dominance is 58.4%. The regime is NEUTRAL with a score of 52.64 and an upward direction. BTC price and its daily change are absent from the snapshot.

Fear & Greed
66
Greed
BTC.D
58.4%
Short term
no clear direction

Liquidations

In the past hour $16.3M of shorts were liquidated versus $1.1M of longs. The overall level stays NORMAL. A tilt toward short liquidations usually means upward pressure, but on its own it does not confirm a trend.

Level
NORMAL
Longs / 1 h
$1M
Shorts / 1 h
$16M

Funding extremes

Funding rates sit near neutral. ZEC stands out with an annualised -12.3%, while XRP, ARB, WLD, UNI and CRV hold around +11.0%. All extremes are flagged neutral.

CoinFunding p.a.
ZEC ZEC-12.3%
XRP XRP+11%
ARB ARB+11%
WLD WLD+11%
UNI UNI+11%
CRV CRV+11%

Leverage positioning

The strongest fresh flow came from ETH (+$1.8M) and BTC (+$1.2M) over the last 5 minutes. The crowd is longest on ETH (70.3%) and SOL (68.0%), with BTC at 56.9%. Every tracked market carries a NORMAL flag.

CoinNet flow 5 minOI 24 h
ETH ETH$2M·
BTC BTC$1M·
HYPE HYPE$451K·
XRP XRP$26K·
LINK LINK$19K·
SOL SOL$10K·

Crowd long: BTC 57% · ETH 70% · SOL 68%

ETF flows

Spot BTC ETFs saw $57.3M of outflows while ETH ETFs pulled in $25.9M. Flows are running in opposite directions across the two assets. The data reflects the last reported day.

BTC ETF
-$57M
ETH ETF
+$26M

Movers

The biggest drop was SOPH (T1), down 38.9% to $0.00532. At the other end KAT (T2) rose 30.0% and FF (T2) gained 23.5%. Also among the fallers were FUN (-22.6%) and VANRY (-21.4%).

CoinPrice24 h
SOPH$0.00532-38.9%
KAT$0.00607+30%
FF FF$0.147+23.5%
FUN$0.000346-22.6%
VANRY$0.00103-21.4%
HEMI$0.00750-13.6%

Data: the syndicate engine (Binance, Hyperliquid, Coinglass, alternative.me and other cited sources), collected at publication time. Snapshot values do not update retroactively. Educational and journalistic content, not investment advice.

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