According to @BullTheoryio, the crypto market suffered over $16.5B in liquidations within a single day on October 10 and more than $41B since October 1, which is unusually high without macro shocks, protocol failures, exchange collapses, or black-swan headlines, source: @BullTheoryio on X, Nov 21, 2025. Despite equities recovering as the S&P 500 made new highs and NVIDIA reported strong earnings, crypto failed to stabilize with no meaningful bounce, relief rally, or rotation and continued a straight-down pattern of forced selling, source: @BullTheoryio on X, Nov 21, 2025. Repeated waves of long liquidations have erased each attempted recovery, with concentrated intraday flushes of $100M to $1B in leveraged positions even on otherwise stable or green global market days, source: @BullTheoryio on X, Nov 21, 2025. This structural shift has persisted for roughly 45 days after October 10 as open interest collapsed and liquidity thinned across major pairs, with small price moves still triggering outsized liquidations, source: @BullTheoryio on X, Nov 21, 2025. @BullTheoryio notes the pattern is consistent with either a major entity unwinding, structural deleveraging at large trading firms, or liquidity gaps from thin order books, but the cause remains unconfirmed and no large market participant has provided transparency, source: @BullTheoryio on X, Nov 21, 2025.

According to @EricCryptoman, the past week showed that market cap can be misleading as thin order books allow coins to move from 1B to 2B as quickly as from 1M to 2M, underscoring liquidity-driven volatility and momentum trading dynamics, source: @EricCryptoman on X, Nov 8, 2025. According to @EricCryptoman, he is looking at which top-200 coins to buy, drawing attention to top-200 altcoin setups where order book depth and liquidity can drive outsized moves, source: @EricCryptoman on X, Nov 8, 2025.

According to @bobbyong, a pattern consistent with market manipulation may have occurred on Binance as many altcoins crashed to almost zero in a recent episode he highlighted on Oct 12, 2025 (source: @bobbyong, X, Oct 12, 2025). He indicates that concentrated sell-offs in alt pairs suggest severe liquidity dislocations and thin order books that can produce extreme wicks on centralized exchanges, a scenario traders should factor into execution and risk controls (source: @bobbyong).