Short sellers are being beaten back step by step, but the “new story” SAGA talks about is actually old news from four months ago.

Up 33.7% in 24 hours, up 163.6% in 7 days. Current price: $0.0511. Market cap: just $21.3 million—yet the 24-hour trading volume hits $94.1 million, more than four times the market cap.

Open interest is $53.21 million, even thicker than the market cap itself. In the past 24 hours, liquidations totaled $323,500, with 191,300 attributed to shorts being buried and only 132,200 to longs—this is a textbook short squeeze/short liquidation stampede: when price rises, shorts who can’t hold give up and exit, and incoming buy orders push the price even higher. On the forum, “Breakout” and “Shorts buried” posts get refreshed again and again.

The AI narrative used to explain this rally is real—but it isn’t news from today. Officially, Saga’s AI Character Agent Network has processed 23 million transactions, with over $2 billion in volume, and it has been associated with projects like Trivia Crack and SPIRIT. I checked the official sitemap: those pages were updated from late May to early June—not events that happened on September 23. Price moved today first; the narrative is just what’s being dragged out to take the blame—not a new economic event.

Circulating supply: 416.5 million tokens. Total supply: 1.104 billion. FDV: $56.4 million—set against a $21.3 million market cap, there’s still a long way to go before the remaining dilution is actually realized. Low circulating supply makes the percentage gains look explosive, but it’s a double-edged sword.

This move can’t be escaped—it’s leverage squeeze, not a repricing. In the short term, I’m bearish. There’s only one way to turn it around: if the AI agent business line is genuinely announced with new integrations or new transaction/flow data—not simply repackaging old news from May. That would be worth revisiting the long case.

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