According to @EmberCN, after being down to a little over $100k, Machi deposited 250,000 USDC to the account to continue funding longs, source: @EmberCN. He increased ETH long exposure to approximately $7.54 million notional with an average entry of $2,840 and a liquidation price at $2,698, source: @EmberCN. The market’s inflection on 10/11 was followed by sustained declines, during which this persistent long positioning has led to cumulative principal losses of about $21.1 million, source: @EmberCN. For trading context, the stated average entry is $2,840 and the liquidation threshold is $2,698 on the ETH long, source: @EmberCN.

According to Lookonchain, Machi (@machibigbrother) was partially liquidated as the market dropped and still holds a 3,300 ETH long worth about $9.4M with a new liquidation price of $2,831.58 (source: Lookonchain on X, Dec 1, 2025). The figures imply an average position value near $2,848 per ETH, with the reported $2,831.58 liquidation level defining the immediate risk threshold for this position (source: Lookonchain on X, Dec 1, 2025).

According to @EmberCN, a whale who shorted after CZ disclosed $ASTER holdings is now close to liquidation on separate ETH and XRP long positions, with ETH just $120 away and XRP $0.17 away from liquidation; combined unrealized loss on the two longs is $39.73M, source: @EmberCN on X, Nov 21, 2025. According to @EmberCN, the trader’s PnL fell by $59.12M over 11 days, from a $61.88M profit on Nov 10 to $2.76M now, and a further price drop would push the account into principal loss, source: @EmberCN on X, Nov 21, 2025.

According to @lookonchain, trader Machi opened a new 25x long on 368.89 ETH with approximately $1.11M notional after being liquidated again, leaving his account balance at $35,198 on Nov 18, 2025. According to @lookonchain, the reported liquidation price for the new ETH position is $2,963.35, outlining a precise risk level for this leveraged trade. According to @lookonchain, the trader has gone all-in with the remaining funds and the position details are viewable via Hyperdash, highlighting a concentrated exposure around the stated liquidation level.

According to @OnchainLens, a newly created wallet deposited $2.8M USDC into HyperLiquid, bringing total deposits to $5M. According to @OnchainLens, the wallet opened leveraged long positions in STRK at 5x and HYPE at 10x on HyperLiquid. According to @OnchainLens, the trader currently shows a floating (unrealized) profit of $2.4M. According to the hyperbot.network trader profile linked by @OnchainLens, the activity and PnL are visible for address 0xbbc0a674EeEe74717D7a3DeED9d43D55087bc032.

According to @Andre_Dragosch, traders should be prepared to withstand high-G volatility to participate in rocket-like BTC rallies, highlighting the need for disciplined position sizing and tolerance for sharp swings, source: @Andre_Dragosch on X on Nov 16, 2025. By linking to a BitcoinFear post, the message underscores sentiment-driven risk conditions in Bitcoin, implying tighter leverage, volatility-based stops, and cash buffers during potential parabolic phases, source: @Andre_Dragosch on X on Nov 16, 2025 and the BitcoinFear link referenced in the post.

According to @lookonchain, the Roobet and Stake.com gambler wallet 0x7B7b flipped from short to long, opening a 25x long on 25,000 ETH (about $78.63M) with a liquidation price at $3,063.08. Source: x.com/lookonchain/status/1989338524643147904. Based on the figures reported by @lookonchain, 25x leverage on $78.63M implies roughly $3.15M of initial margin, making the position highly sensitive to moves toward the $3,063.08 liquidation level. Source: x.com/lookonchain/status/1989338524643147904. Traders can track the wallet’s real-time positioning and the liquidation threshold to monitor risk and sizing changes via Hyperdash. Source: hyperdash.info/trader/0x7B7b908c076B9784487180dE92E7161c2982734E.

According to @lookonchain, Machi Big Brother deposited 709,142 USDC on HyperLiquid to continue adding long exposure in ETH and UNI, source: @lookonchain. According to @lookonchain, the current reported positions are 1,750.7 ETH valued at 6.2 million dollars and 25,002 UNI valued at 201 thousand dollars, source: @lookonchain. Based on figures provided by @lookonchain, total reported open exposure is approximately 6.401 million dollars, making the new deposit about 11 percent of that amount, source: @lookonchain.

According to @LexSokolin, crypto is rediscovering counterparty risk and liquidation cascades, flagged in a Nov 11, 2025 post linking to a ChainRisk note on X, drawing trader focus to leverage-driven spillovers across venues. source: @LexSokolin Traders should review exchange and prime-broker counterparty exposure, margin schedules, collateral haircuts, and rehypothecation policies before deploying leverage to reduce forced-liquidation vulnerability. source: CFA Institute BIS research shows that procyclical margining and high leverage can accelerate fire-sale dynamics, supporting the case for lowering leverage and sizing positions relative to maintenance margin to curb cascade risk. source: Bank for International Settlements Regulatory guidance emphasizes segregated client asset protections and diversification across counterparties to mitigate single-point-of-failure risk when counterparty stress rises. source: International Organization of Securities Commissions Monitoring open interest, funding rates, and on-chain liquidation thresholds can help identify leverage build-ups and stress early across centralized and DeFi venues. source: Coin Metrics

According to Onchain Lens (X, Nov 10, 2025), Machi expanded a 25x ETH long to 5,600 ETH with an estimated notional value around 20 million USD. According to Onchain Lens, the position shows about 960 thousand USD in unrealized profit, implying roughly 171 USD profit per ETH based on the figures reported by Onchain Lens. According to Onchain Lens, the broader portfolio stands at a negative 14.4 million USD PnL, making the current unrealized gain approximately 6.7 percent of that drawdown by simple ratio from Onchain Lens data. The referenced wallet and position details can be reviewed via the HyperBot tracker linked by Onchain Lens for verification, source: HyperBot and Onchain Lens (X, Nov 10, 2025).

According to @OnchainDataNerd, a fresh wallet 0x7b7 opened a 20x BTC short on Hyperliquid at an entry near $101,653, is currently showing an unrealized loss of about $1.8 million, and has a reported liquidation price around $104,230; this implies roughly a 2.5 percent distance from entry to liquidation based on the figures provided. Source: @OnchainDataNerd on X; Hypurrscan address hypurrscan.io/address/0x7b7b908c076b9784487180de92e7161c2982734e.

According to @KobeissiLetter, total crypto loans jumped 35% in Q3 2025 to a record $73.6 billion, surpassing the previous peak of $69.4 billion set in Q4 2021 (source: @KobeissiLetter). According to @KobeissiLetter, crypto lending has nearly tripled since Q1 2024 following the approval of US spot Bitcoin ETFs, indicating leverage has increased markedly across the market (source: @KobeissiLetter). According to @KobeissiLetter, accelerating liquidations are causing violent downswings across crypto and amplifying volatility, creating immediate trading risk for BTC and broader digital assets (source: @KobeissiLetter). According to @KobeissiLetter, leverage is proliferating volatility across the crypto market, reinforcing a high-risk trading environment (source: @KobeissiLetter).

According to @ThinkingUSD, the open interest in Jelly Jelly derivatives is larger than the token’s fully diluted market cap, indicating an extreme open interest to FDV imbalance, source: @ThinkingUSD. According to @ThinkingUSD, this setup acts as a honeypot for systematic trading firms, source: @ThinkingUSD. According to @ThinkingUSD, the imbalance could lead to a high-profile market maker blow-up if positions unwind, source: @ThinkingUSD. According to @ThinkingUSD, he has not seen this anomaly before in practice, highlighting the unusual risk profile, source: @ThinkingUSD.

According to the source, the former FTX US President stated that excessive leverage in crypto trading is a major problem that heightens liquidation and systemic risk for retail and professional traders. Source: public social media post on Nov 1, 2025 relaying remarks by the former FTX US President. High leverage amplifies auto-deleveraging cascades during sharp price moves, a pattern documented by exchange liquidation data and on-chain analytics for BTC and ETH. Source: Binance Futures liquidation summaries 2021–2022; Glassnode derivatives and liquidation metrics 2021–2023. Regulators flagged retail risks in leveraged digital asset products, and major venues moved to cap maximum leverage around 20x in 2021, indicating broad acknowledgment of these hazards. Source: CFTC Customer Advisory on digital asset trading (June 2021); Binance announcement on 20x leverage limits (July 2021). For trading decisions, monitor funding rates, open interest, and futures basis; crowded long leverage with rising funding and record OI has preceded long-squeeze events in crypto. Source: CME CF Bitcoin futures OI data; Deribit Insights research on liquidation dynamics (2023). Risk controls such as isolated margin over cross margin, reduced position sizing, and disciplined stop-loss placement help mitigate leverage-driven volatility spikes in BTC and ETH. Source: Binance Futures risk parameters and ADL documentation; CME risk management primers.

According to Lookonchain, Machi deposited another 105,000 USDC into Hyperliquid, continued adding to his ETH long to a total of 2,600 ETH (about $10.02M), and set a new liquidation price at $3,803.71; source: Lookonchain on X: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1980465925116817873. Traders can monitor ETH price action versus $3,803.71 as a potential liquidation trigger on Hyperliquid given the disclosed position size; source: Lookonchain on X: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1980465925116817873.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, an Andrew Kang-linked address flipped from long to short for the second time in three days, opening 10,275.86 ETH 25x shorts and 269.53 BTC 40x shorts with a combined notional of $68.24M, source: @ai_9684xtpa; data: hyperbot.network. According to @ai_9684xtpa, the ENA position remains long while the account has realized $5.6M profit over the past week, source: @ai_9684xtpa; data: hyperbot.network.

According to @PeckShieldAlert, a whale wallet 0x19c4...d26a with long exposure to WBTC, ETH, and LINK via Aave was liquidated for $1.45M after BTC broke below $104K, source: @PeckShieldAlert. The alert dated Oct 17, 2025 identifies the affected markets (Aave, WBTC, ETH, LINK) and the BTC trigger level of $104K for the liquidation, source: @PeckShieldAlert.

According to the source, a report claims that certain planned exchange-traded funds tied to Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and XRP intend to offer 5x daily leverage (source: provided source link). According to the source, these are prospective products and details such as issuer, jurisdiction, listing venue, fee structure, and launch timeline were not independently verified here (source: provided source link). According to the source, traders should confirm any 5x leveraged ETF via official regulator filings and issuer prospectuses before trading, given the high risk and daily reset nature typical of leveraged ETFs (source: provided source link).

According to @CryptoMichNL, Oct 11, 2025 was one of the craziest market days, yet he reported strong performance in both his fund and day-trading portfolios. Source: @CryptoMichNL (X, Oct 11, 2025). He stated the key takeaway for traders is to avoid leverage entirely because most participants cannot manage risk effectively, reinforcing the need to avoid leverage in crypto trading. Source: @CryptoMichNL (X, Oct 11, 2025). He added that prior liquidations made him more composed about losses, underscoring the importance of risk capacity awareness on volatile sessions. Source: @CryptoMichNL (X, Oct 11, 2025).

According to @AltcoinGordon, a high-volatility session yesterday wiped out overleveraged crypto positions, with at least one account reportedly plunging from 15M USD to 4k USD, highlighting the danger of going all in on margin trades, source: https://twitter.com/AltcoinGordon/status/1976976819258900558 According to @AltcoinGordon, traders should prioritize spot holdings and, if using derivatives, allocate only small amounts to leverage to limit liquidation risk during extreme moves, source: https://twitter.com/AltcoinGordon/status/1976976819258900558 According to @AltcoinGordon, the session was historic for volatility, and the practical takeaway for traders is to reduce leverage, scale down position sizes, and maintain higher collateral buffers to withstand sudden price swings, source: https://twitter.com/AltcoinGordon/status/1976976819258900558