$GALA is strengthening against $BTC , but perpetual open interest is declining, and taker trading is skewed toward selling.

Binance data as of 06:19 Beijing time: $GALA spot price was about 0.001603 USDT, up 3.82% over 24h; $BTC was about 76,064.0 over the same period, down 0.05%. The 24h performance difference against BTC was about +3.87%. The intraday high was 0.001644 and the low was 0.001507. Spot trading volume was about 726.11K USDT.

Derivatives: The funding rate was about +0.01%. Perpetual open interest fell about 4.59% over the past 24 hours and about 0.88% in the last hour. The global long/short account ratio was about 1.87, with long accounts at about 65.2% and short accounts at about 34.8%. The top trader account long/short ratio was about 2.27 (about 69.4% long accounts). The top trader positions long/short ratio was about 1.38 (about 58.0% long and 42.0% short). The taker buy/sell ratio was about 0.62 over the last hour and about 0.62 over the last 5 minutes.

The price is outperforming BTC, while accounts and top traders’ positions are heavily tilted long. Yet open interest is falling, and short-term taker selling is more pronounced. This looks more like traders reducing leverage while maintaining positions during an uptrend. Next, watch whether open interest continues to fall and whether the buy/sell ratio can move back above 1.

Data from Binance spot ticker and public derivatives API. Not investment advice.
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