The bullish move liquidated positions worth $47.4 million in the futures market, per CoinGlass data, $42.9 million or 90% of which were in short orders, pointing to the potential reason behind the pump.
The price spike coincided with the short liquidations, indicating that the move may have been driven by a short squeeze in the futures market.
A short squeeze is when the price of an asset rises quickly as existing short order holders, who bet against the market with leverage, are forced to buy an asset at higher prices as its price rises.
Ethereum (ETH) also followed the top crypto, rising above $1,700 for the first time in five weeks. Futures orders worth $28 million were liquidated due to ETH’s price surge.
The combined market cap of crypto tokens rose by 3.3%, adding close to $37 billion over the last 24 hours to reach $1.16 trillion.
The positive spike in crypto prices liquidated $114.9 million across the crypto market, with shorts amounting to $97.8 million or over 85% of the total, per CoinGlass data.
Solana (SOL) futures recorded the third highest liquidation after the majors with liquidations worth $5.92 million.
SOL also led the niche market’s gains among the top 100 crypto tokens by market cap with 13.5% overnight gains.
Besides Solana, the top gainers over the last 24 hours included Thorchain (RUNE), Bitcoin SV (BSV), and Render (RNDR) tokens.
Solana’s total value locked (TVL) reached $338.82 million this Monday, marking its highest since the start of the year, as per DefiLlama data.
TVL is a metric–arguably a crude one–for measuring how much money is sloshing around a network’s various DeFi apps.
Over the last 24 hours, SOL's TVL saw an increase of roughly 4.15%, jumping from $324.64 million on Sunday to $338.82 million by Monday. Pushing that rise, are popular Solana-based projects like Drift, marginfi, Solend, and others.
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In addition to futures liquidations, the U.S. government's successful effort to avert a shutdown by extending its funding for 45 days may have also contributed to the positive sentiments in global markets.
The U.S. stock market futures opened in the green on October 2 with the S&P 500 gaining 17.5 points to trade at 4,312.4 points.
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Once again, U.S. regulators offered very little to the international crypto community to chew on this week. VanEck’s SEC-approved Ethereum futures ETF was confirmed on Thursday, however, adding modest gains to the bags of Ethereum (ETH) holders. Beyond that, lawmakers in Washington still appear to be dragging their feet compared to their European counterparts—distracted as they were with a very close call with a government shutdown.
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The tech-heavy Nasdaq index also opened with a positive gap of 0.7% above Friday’s closing, tapping into the 15,000 level.
VanEck is also preparing to launch the first futures Ethereum ETF today, adding to the positive sentiments.
Over the past decade, Bitcoin's price has surged in October every year except for the bear markets of 2014 and 2018, per CoinGlass data.
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