XRP Traders Lose Their Shirts Over 8,466% Liquidation Spike (And Barely a Price Move!)

Breaking news from the cryptocurrency universe, where people routinely lose money faster than I lose umbrellas: XRP experienced a liquidation imbalance so wild, statisticians everywhere are clutching their pearls. The long-to-short ratio exploded by 8,466% over just 12 hours. Yes, you read that right. Not 8.4%. Not 846%. Eight. Thousand. Four hundred. And sixty-six percent. I haven’t seen numbers like this since I checked my high school math grades. 😅

According to the CoinGlass heatmap (basically, the Weather Channel for your savings evaporating), XRP rang up $514,600 in total liquidations during this tiny time window. A jaw-dropping $508,040 of that came from long positions. Shorts? A puny $6,565. It’s like bringing a knife to a pillow fight—totally lopsided, very confusing, and someone probably ends up crying.

But wait, here’s the plot twist nobody in a tinfoil hat saw coming: during these “market fireworks,” XRP’s price barely budged. It was trading inside a phone booth, going from $2.14998 to $2.15758 (popping up slightly), only to end chillin’ at $2.15417. All this drama and heartburn for a grand net gain of 0.20%. Congratulations, everyone. You did all that… for basically nothing. 🎉

Meanwhile, the entire crypto market was having one of those “if you know, you know” days, racking up $36.4 million in total liquidations. Ethereum said, “Hold my beer,” and topped the charts at $6.56 million. Bitcoin clocked in at $3.25 million, probably too dignified to care. So what made XRP’s mess special? Oh, it wasn’t the volume—it was the total wipeout of longs and almost total exoneration for shorts. (I’d call it a kangaroo court, except kangaroos usually kick back.)

To sum up: A ton of traders piled into bullish positions, probably convinced Ripple was about to, well, ripple. Instead? The only thing they got was a whiplash—and a lesson in why leverage is mostly just adrenaline for your wallet. 📉🤷‍♀️

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2025-06-19 19:14