The old dog swept through
$CRCL , wiping out 7.44 points in 24 hours. The price was pushed down to 60.8, right at the neckline near last week’s washout move. Trading volume was $85.05 million—nothing crazy, but the OI is still sitting at 1.056 million. Compared with the 800k-plus I saw at the open, this drop hasn’t cleared many positions. The leveraged longs are still refusing to admit defeat. The funding rate is flat at 0.00000000—no one’s really paying, neither longs to shorts nor shorts to longs. This kind of “middle-of-the-road” state often isn’t a bottom; it’s usually the prelude to a sideways chop-grinder.
When the funding rate hits zero, it’s usually best not to rush into bottom-fishing. I checked the recent trend of the CryptoLink sector—most tickers have been bleeding slowly with the broader market. But
$CRCL fell more decisively: a single long bearish candle smashed through several small supports at once. I don’t have the detailed position breakdown, but OI hasn’t decreased—in fact it’s flat-to-increasing—which suggests someone is throwing darts around the 60 zone. Looking at on-chain wallet concentration, the top 50 addresses hold most of the circulating supply. The float is locked down tight; when they pull it up, it’s violent. When they smash it, it’s equally merciless. In a setup where funding is calm and OI stays elevated, both bulls and bears are holding their breath—whoever makes the first move will get “educated” immediately on the rebound.
The 24-hour volatility doesn’t sound extremely wild, but when you factor in the OI, it gets a bit dangerous. If price drifts down further toward 58, it’s easy to trigger a bunch of long liquidation stop-losses and set off a chain reaction. Last time I saw a similar structure was early June: an on-chain mapping of US equities broke through an integer level, with OI stubbornly staying high; the next day it accelerated straight into the next demand zone to finally catch its breath. The script is too familiar.
I’ve been watching the order book for
$CRCL for two weeks. Around 60.3 there are large buy support orders—doesn’t look like retail hanging there. Most likely it’s a “firm” board posted by a market maker, but market maker orders get pulled faster than anyone else’s.
My logic is simple: if it breaks below 60.3, I’ll cut my long position in half. If it breaks below 58, I’ll fully close. I’ll also place a small short on the side. If it can稳稳地 reclaim above 62.5, I’ll stop out the short and flip to go long. Everyone’s saying
$CRCL may bounce along with the US equities night session—after all, it’s a TradFi-linked on-chain mapping. But I don’t see it that way: if US stocks rise and it just stays limp, that divergence is a signal of the “operator” distributing, not a washout. For now, I’m holding a small short with stops slightly above 63. If I’m wrong, I’ll run.
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