ZEC, this upswing is kind of interesting: the 15m is up 2.19%, but OI is actually falling. When price rises while open interest declines, this combination usually isn’t fresh longs entering—it’s more like shorts are being lifted or old positions are being covered.

Look at the details: liquidation agents on the 5m timeframe are concentrated on Binance at 472K. Buyer-side direction dominates; the active execution gap is 26.2%, and the buy/sell ratio is 1.71. In plain terms, someone is being forced to liquidate, rather than the market actively adding long positions.

The OI abnormal percentile reached 97.2%, the entire pool abnormal #27, nominal change #3, but the absolute change amount is only -0.44%. This structure is quite “twisted,” suggesting that positions got rapidly cleared in an extremely thin area.

24h trading volume is a little over 1.8 billion. Liquidity depth can hold, but the price has already pushed to the upper edge of the recent range. Chasing longs here doesn’t offer a great cost-performance ratio. Instead, watch whether there’s follow-through after the cover is complete. Without follow-through, it’s just a single impulse.