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Markets don’t always move on logic they move on nerves.
What we’re witnessing today in crypto isn’t just a routine correction or a normal sell-off. We’re looking at a structural liquidity unwind that effectively began on October 6, when total market cap peaked around $4.3 trillion.
Since then, the market has been bleeding quietly shedding more than $2.2 trillion in total value.

But the question everyone is asking in disbelief:
Why is the market collapsing while the fundamentals haven’t changed?
1) The election rally trap vs. harsh reality
Bitcoin has now erased all the gains made after Trump’s victory and is trading 10% below election-day levels.
The truth is simple: markets had overpriced optimism.
With the nomination of Kevin Warsh to lead the Fed, investors are starting to realize that the era of easy money may not return as quickly as expected and that Fed balance-sheet contraction remains the number one enemy of high-risk assets.
2) October 10th: an earthquake that never healed
On October 10, the market experienced a historic $19.5 billion liquidation in a single day.
This wasn’t just a loss for overleveraged traders it was a fracture in the market’s backbone: market depth.
Since that day, crypto has become a thin market, where a single large sell order from an institution or a whale can move prices thousands of dollars within minutes.
That fragility is exactly what we’ve been seeing through recent price gaps.
3) Contagion risk: crypto is no longer an isolated island
The real danger lies in liquidation pressure spreading from crypto into mega-cap tech stocks.
When institutions are forced to cover crypto losses, they sell liquid assets like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google.
This creates a vicious cycle:
crypto liquidations--> equity selling--> weaker sentiment--> more crypto selling.
4) Sentiment: the true ruler of markets
The Fear & Greed Index has collapsed into single-digit fear.
Past crypto cycles taught us one thing: sentiment is everything.
When conviction breaks, markets don’t care about network strength or institutional adoption they care about exiting with minimal damage.
Conclusion & outlook
We are approaching a capitulation zone.
Historically, true bottoms only form when:
the number of winning coins equals the number of losing onesand leverage is fully flushed from the system
What’s happening now is a painful but necessary cleansing process.
A bottom isn’t a price it’s a state of collective despair and the restoration of structural liquidity.
Until that happens, volatility will remain dominant.
The difference between a smart investor and a panicked speculator is the ability to distinguish between:

a price collapse
and
a value collapse.
So what do you think are we approaching a historic re-positioning opportunity,
or will this “winter” last far longer than most expect?
Share your view in the comments.
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