{"id":7193,"date":"2025-09-23T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/crypto-bloodbath-shakes-market-but-is-the-real-storm-still-to-come\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T05:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:00:55","slug":"crypto-bloodbath-shakes-market-but-is-the-real-storm-still-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/crypto-bloodbath-shakes-market-but-is-the-real-storm-still-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Bloodbath Shakes Market\u2014But Is The Real Storm Still To Come?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crypto absorbed its largest liquidation shock of 2025, with the heaviest single-day wipeouts since summer 2023 for ETH and SOL and the biggest since June for BTC, triggering a sharp, sentiment-driven downdraft across majors and large-cap altcoins. In a video analysis published<\/a> today, analyst CryptoInsightUK urged restraint and argued that the move looks like a leverage flush rather than a structural break, pointing to liquidity maps, momentum gauges, and market-cap composites that, in his view, still skew constructive once the dust settles.<\/p>\n

Do not rush and panic this morning,\u201d he said at the outset. \u201cThe only rush and panic thing that you should be doing at this time is if you just want to buy spot\u2026 nothing has really changed at all.\u201d He framed the sell-off against near-all-time-high closes last week across market-cap aggregates: Total2 (ex-BTC) \u201cclosed at about $1.66\u2013$1.67 trillion,\u201d Total3 (ex-BTC, ex-ETH) at \u201c$1.13 trillion,\u201d and total crypto market cap just shy of $4 trillion at \u201c$3.96.\u201d The message, he said, is to \u201czoom out,\u201d assess structure, and watch for a familiar bottoming sequence that often follows abrupt long liquidations.<\/p>\n

The analyst\u2019s short-term roadmap hinges on a classic liquidity sweep plus momentum divergence. After a vertical wick clears resting bids and tripping stops, he looks for price to \u201cchop,\u201d revisit\u2014and marginally undercut\u2014the intraday low, while the RSI sets a higher low. \u201cWhat we\u2019re looking for structurally\u2026 is a higher low on the RSI, perfect if it\u2019s in the oversold area\u2026 when we have a higher low on the RSI and a lower low in price action\u2026 the momentum of the selling is waning,\u201d he said, calling this setup a reliable reversal tell \u201cthe higher the timeframe, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crypto Watch: ETH, XRP, DOGE, ADA<\/h2>\n

He cited fresh examples across majors. For ETH, a drawdown from \u201cabout $4,400 down to $4,000\u201d knifed through a \u201cdense\u201d cluster of below-price liquidity that had accumulated for weeks. \u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve seen more liquidity above us than we have below since\u201d the prior five-wave advance, he argued, consistent with an ABC correction that may be maturing.<\/p>\n

XRP, he said, \u201cpinpointed\u201d its only notable pocket of sub-price liquidity, wicking to $2.66, a level he mapped against $2.8\u2013$2.69. He now sees the \u201cmain liquidity\u2026 above us for XRP at $3.40, while allowing that a brief wick-fill toward today\u2019s low could complete the divergence pattern he\u2019s watching.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin\u2019s dominance spike during the flush also fits his playbook. He described the dominance RSI as \u201cmassively overbought\u2026 probably like on the hourly as overbought as I\u2019ve seen it,\u201d noting that prior forays into this zone have coincided with local peaks in BTC relative strength before rotation back into large caps and selective alts. That context\u2014together with his \u201czoomed-out\u201d view\u2014underpins his claim that \u201cbullish sentiment gets rewarded over time,\u201d even if the path includes unnerving resets.<\/p>\n

Dogecoin, he cautioned, can still probe the $0.19\u2013$0.20 zone after reclaiming the $0.22 support region, but he flagged that the 4-hour RSI is as depressed as at prior cyclical lows. He disclosed a \u201c2x\u201d DOGE long around $0.225, acknowledging no hard stop given his conviction in the higher-timeframe trend and accepting the risk of further chop.<\/p>\n

Cardano \u201cwicked into\u201d a mapped liquidity shelf near $0.77, with \u201cmain liquidity\u2026 up at $1.00 and $1.20\u201d on the daily, a configuration he views as asymmetrically favorable once the market stabilizes.<\/p>\n

What To Watch Now<\/h2>\n

Throughout, he emphasized that today\u2019s damage was amplified by leverage, not fundamentals. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a liquidity flush,\u201d he said, referencing a social post he saw that \u201ca billion dollars of leverage got flushed out in 30 minutes.\u201d For him, that is \u201cpositive; we want to see this leverage reset.\u201d He cautioned that near-term direction is hostage to US cash-market flows\u2014\u201cThe US might wake up and\u2026 sell, or\u2026 buy the [dip]\u201d\u2014but insisted the larger structures are intact: \u201cWeekly\u2026 we\u2019re still sitting at all-time highs\u2026 Whether the top\u2019s in or not, I don\u2019t think so. I really, really, really, really, really don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n

His near-term checklist is straightforward: let volatility run its course, look for the RSI higher-low against a marginal price lower-low, and respect predefined support\/target zones. \u201cTake your emotion away and look for structures that you know are bottoming structures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The trader psychology, in his telling, is as critical as the levels. \u201cThese things happen and it feels like a culmination of sentiment\u2026 anger, frustration, and now probably despair\u2026 If it\u2019s too much\u2026 go for a run,\u201d he advised, adding that \u201cthe market doesn\u2019t care\u201d about anyone\u2019s mood and will \u201cdo what it\u2019s going to do anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the \u201creal storm\u201d is still to come, he implies it\u2019s the post-flush move that matters\u2014whether a final liquidity sweep completes the divergence or a swift rotation lifts majors into the overhead liquidity he\u2019s mapped. Either way, he argues, the decisive phase is ahead, not behind: \u201cLet\u2019s see how things play out\u2026 It\u2019s not a time to panic\u2026 If you want to be buying things\u2026 when we\u2019re oversold like this, it\u2019s a decent time to buy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At press time, ETH traded at $4,185.<\/p>\n

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