$XMR has dropped 3.77% in the past 15 minutes, while volume has surged to 24x. OI is up 2.68% over 15 minutes and 4.91% over 1 hour. Notional change ranks near the top of the entire pool, with an anomaly percentile of 99.2%. Price is getting hammered lower, but open interest is building instead—someone is aggressively adding shorts at this level. The taker imbalance is -2.1%, and the buy/sell ratio is 0.96. Selling pressure isn’t especially intense, but leveraged shorts are definitely coming in. We’re already near a historical extreme, and it hasn’t let up for several consecutive periods. I wouldn’t try to call a bottom here.