Contract Order Book Daily|8/29 Evening Broad Decline, Fearful Greed Yet Sticks to 68
At 23:00 Beijing time, the evening order book weakened across the board. The $BTC mark price is 779,600, down 1.96% over 24 hours, $ETH is down 2.58%, and $SOL is relatively resilient, down only 0.89%. Open interest didn’t collapse along with price: $BTC futures open interest is $8.348 billion, down just 1%. This drop looks like price being smashed down, not mass liquidation and retreat. Longs account for 54%, the active buy ratio is 1.39. Bids are still pressing against the asks—there’s support under the decline, not a panic-style selloff.
Fear & Greed Index is 68—still in the greed zone. Even though price fell, sentiment hasn’t cooled down. This divergence is the most worth watching tonight. Real panic should show the index sliding downward. Since it hasn’t, it suggests many participants in the market are still treating this drop as a pullback rather than a trend reversal.
On funding rates: $SOL has already turned negative—shorts are effectively paying to hold positions, and the fact that its drawdown is the smallest lines up perfectly with that. Meanwhile, $ETH and $BTC funding rates are still positive—longs are still paying, and the leverage structure hasn’t surrendered along with the current price.
In the squeeze watchlist, the three most negative funding-rate names are TUT, ONT, and HOME. Shorts are the most crowded; if there’s a rebound, they’re likely to get squeezed. The most positive funding-rate names are "4", Lobster, and ESPORTS—longs are crowded too, and pullbacks could bury them.
Over the past couple of days, there’s been increased emphasis outside the market on expanding derivatives and financing infrastructure: BitGo acquired NYDIG’s institutional trading business, aiming at derivatives and financing; Bullish rolled out a $100 million stablecoin credit line, specifically to lend to AI compute providers who pledge GPUs as collateral; and Charles Schwab (CS?)/Schwab Investment Services brought $SOL , AVAX, and LINK into its own crypto platform—widening the institutional on-ramp again. These mean leverage channels are getting thicker, and they’re not the same as tonight’s soft spot in spot prices. Infrastructure expansion doesn’t necessarily mean price will stop falling.
Just watch one thing: if the Fear & Greed Index fails to move lower despite price continuing to drop, it suggests leverage hasn’t been fully cleared—another leg down is likely to come. If the index first breaks down into below 50, that’s when sentiment truly loosens; that’s the window where support is more worth focusing on.
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Three coins of the morning “High-Level Distribution Observation · Bearish” — after about 13 hours, how did they perform: TURBO and DEXE both started to weaken and fulfilled the bearish call; NIL didn’t show a one-way downside drop—instead, it bounced back.
TURBO: Fulfilled. The bearish move from the morning played out. After the initial listing, price continued to fall 7.94%, while open interest dropped 13%—the “chips dispersing” observation showed up on the chart: price fell and positioning also retreated, without any noticeable thickening in support. The proportion of active buy orders fell from 0.94 to 0.71, and buyer enthusiasm truly cooled off.
DEXE: Fulfilled. The direction of the high-level distribution was also correct. After the initial listing, price dropped another 8.18%, but trading volume expanded by more than 70%. “Volume up, price down” is a pretty classic distribution characteristic—its increase of 29.95% was knocked back to 15.63%, and the bullish momentum was clearly digested. Funding rate turned from negative to positive, indicating that long open interest willingness is weakening—consistent with the bearish judgment.
NIL: The bounce. The bearish call from the morning didn’t materialize for now. After the initial listing, price actually rose 7.93% instead of dropping, and open interest also expanded by 31.39%, suggesting new capital is entering and adding positions—not just simple short-covering. The long/short ratio fell to above 45% longs, and trading volume surged threefold. The market looks hot, which diverges from the original assessment of “high-level distribution,” so this direction hasn’t been fulfilled yet.
Next, what to watch: For TURBO and DEXE, see whether open interest continues to move downward along with price. Once positioning stops declining but price starts to lift, it would suggest that selling pressure has eased. For NIL, watch whether this bounce has real follow-through: only if open interest keeps rising but price stagnates or even pulls back would it count as the market re-entering the bearish path—and then it’s worth re-checking.
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About 13 hours ago, during the morning “pullback observation,” the bullish focus was on these three contracts: HEMI, MANTRA, and CHIP. Now let’s reconcile: out of the three, none has fully broken out yet—two are still getting tugged back and forth, and one has already fizzled out. Back then, the initial observation was: “chips are being accumulated.”
HEMI: tug-of-war—signals are still fighting each other, and it couldn’t achieve a one-direction bullish confirmation. The price is still 2.57% higher than at the time of the first watch, but the 24-hour gain/loss has dropped from +7.96% then to -2.95% now; momentum is fading. Meanwhile, although volume shrank by 33%, the aggressive buy order flow actually rose from 0.86 to 1.12—suggesting someone is still catching, but the volume isn’t keeping up. Bulls and bears are still wrestling.
MANTRA: tug-of-war—the price is basically stuck in place, while volume was pulled back first. Since the initial watch, price has only inched down -0.16%, but trading volume has nearly halved (down about 60%). The funding rate narrowed from -0.086% to -0.007%, easing short pressure, but price hasn’t moved to confirm the direction—direction still hasn’t been verified.
CHIP: fizzled out—the morning bullish call didn’t get picked up. After the initial watch, price fell 3.76%, and the 24-hour gain/loss flipped from +7.22% to -9.76%. More importantly, aggressive buy order flow dropped from 1.17 to 0.63: buyer dominance turned into seller dominance. Open interest also saw a slight net outflow, and momentum didn’t catch.
Next, watch these points to confirm whether this move is still active: for HEMI and MANTRA, see whether trading volume can expand again and whether aggressive buy flow can continue to pressure sellers; for CHIP, check whether open interest keeps flowing out—if the retreat can’t be stopped, then the morning bullish judgment is essentially disproven.
Top 3 on the morning gainers list—let’s reconcile at 18:00 tonight and see how much real momentum is left.
The lobster is now a tug-of-war. The initial spike of 89.49% is down to just 21.45% now. The price has only inched up from 0.064073 by 0.26%. Open interest, however, is up 3.17% to 507 million. Funding rate has fallen to 0.0901%, and the long position share is only 29%. Key observation: If open interest keeps stacking but the price doesn’t move, it suggests longs and shorts are stuck in a standoff. Once the funding rate turns negative and the price breaks below 0.064, long liquidation cascades are likely.
AKE has already fizzled out. Its initial gain of 55.19% is now only 9.01%. The price has dropped from 0.010798 to 0.008913, a drawdown of 17.46%, and open interest has shrunk in parallel by 22.47%. Longs that entered at higher levels are currently generally underwater. With this combination of both price and open interest declining, any rebound strength needs to be confirmed by a fresh surge in trading volume. The invalidation condition is if the price breaks below the previous low at 0.0089 again.
MAGMA is the only one among the three that’s still applying pressure. The price has edged up from 0.50981 to 0.51257, but open interest has climbed 16.39% to $17.89 million. The funding rate has also ticked up slightly to 0.0476%, indicating new positions are moving in the direction of the price. Risk reminder: This kind of “price lagging but open interest surging” setup—if the price cannot break through further—can easily turn into a pullback after longs pile up. Invalidation: when open interest turns downward and the price breaks below the initial entry price of 0.5098.
The three coins are in completely different states right now. Before chasing a hot trend, make sure you understand whether it’s a real breakout or just capital stacking in place. Being #1 on the gainers list doesn’t necessarily mean the positions are the healthiest.
About 6 hours ago, there were 3 contracts in a morning alert: “High-Level Distribution — Bearish” observation. Now for the reconciliation: TURBO has cashed out—price weakened as expected; DEXE is still tugging—hasn’t broken into a clear one-sided downtrend; NIL bounced back—the direction is opposite to the alert. At the time, the initial observation was that the chips were dispersed.
TURBO: It’s been cashed out. The morning bearish move played out. After the initial drop, price pulled back by 6.56%, and open interest also fell by 12.27% in sync. Both position and price moved downward together—not just a sell-off without bids. The proportion of aggressive buy orders dropped from 0.94 to 0.66, indicating the momentum chasing longs has clearly weakened; the bid support really seems to be thinning.
DEXE: Still tugging. The morning bearish call hasn’t been realized yet. Price only dipped slightly by 2.05%, but trading volume increased by 45.27%. Volume picked up, but direction didn’t follow—suggesting longs and shorts are still repeatedly clashing at this level. The funding rate shifted from negative to neutral, reducing the paid pressure on the longs. For now, there’s no sign of a one-sided downtrend emerging.
NIL: A bounce back. The morning bearish view got contradicted. Price didn’t fall but instead rose by 3.84%, and open interest increased against the trend by 8.34%. This suggests new capital is entering rather than existing shorts exiting. Trading volume surged by 120.4%. Along with the decline in the aggressive buy order ratio, it looks more like buyers are actively absorbing, not a continuation of the “chips dispersed” scenario from the original judgment.
Next, keep watching this line: For TURBO, whether the absorption is continuing to thin out and whether open interest will keep moving down alongside price. For DEXE, after volume expands, whether price can truly choose a side, or whether it continues to churn in place. For NIL, only if both open interest and trading volume growth start to turn around and the aggressive buy order ratio weakens further—then the morning bearish logic would regain initiative and it’s worth reviewing again.
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# Pull-Up Watch Recap: How did this morning’s bullish set perform six hours later?
About 6 hours ago, this set that was marked “Pull-Up Watch” as bullish for the morning is now time to settle the scores. Among the three coins, two were兑现 (followed through), and one remained in a back-and-forth (拉扯): HEMI and CHIP delivered the morning bullish move, while MANTRA couldn’t provide a clear one-sided confirmation yet. The initial observation review at the start used the same line: the chips (positioning) are tightening/accumulating.
HEMI: Delivered — this morning’s bullish track played out. After the initial price breakout, it kept climbing 10.3%, with the cumulative gain expanding to 18.46%. Open interest rose in sync by 14.99%, indicating the bulls didn’t stop; fresh positions were still being added, and the主动买盘占比 (active buy ratio) increased from 0.86 to 0.95. Buyers are adding, not just letting price float up on its own.
CHIP: Delivered — it also followed through on the morning bullish track. After the initial move, the price gained another 4.7%, while trading volume expanded by 5.55% at the same time. Open interest increased slightly by 5.16%. The active buy ratio stayed around 1.2. The momentum is sustainable, not a one-off pulse.
MANTRA: Back-and-forth — the morning bullish setup couldn’t be兑现 for now. After the initial push, price pulled back 2.04%, not following through in the pull-up direction. More worth noting: the active buy ratio dropped from 1.06 to 0.73, showing buyer strength retreating. Open interest is still gradually building (+2.83%), but the direction doesn’t line up with the price, and the funding rate is still in negative territory—meaning the bulls couldn’t catch the rhythm.
What to watch next on this line is: Can HEMI and CHIP keep converting the open-interest increase into fresh price highs rather than stalling in the current range? For MANTRA, can the active buy ratio turn positive again and can price reclaim the initial breakout level? Until these two points show up, this pull-up watch can only be considered a partial fulfillment—worth continuing to track.
Contract Order Book Daily|8/29 Price Drops and Positions Shrink; Greed Index Rises Instead of Falling
$BTC mark price is 77,700, 24 hours down 2.78%. Open interest is $8.241 billion, shrinking by 5.6% in a day. While price is falling, positions are also being reduced, which suggests this leg down isn’t “bottom-fishing” hard by dip-buyers—it’s real players cutting positions and exiting. Yet the funding rate is still positive at 0.01%. Longs are still paying shorts, and sentiment hasn’t truly flipped to bearish.
What’s strange is this: the Fear & Greed Index is 68—still in the “greed” range. After more than two days of price decline, it hasn’t dropped much. The active buy-side order ratio is 0.76—buyers still压着 sellers. The long/short accounts ratio is 54% leaning long. Translated, retail traders are calling for the drop out loud, but they’re still catching the dip with their hands; sentiment is lagging behind price.
$ETH is down 2.1% to 2,439, $SOL down 2.77% to 103.99. Funding rates are still positive, consistent with $BTC ’s rhythm. This isn’t an isolated sell-off in one coin; it’s leverage across the whole market easing at the same time—yet nobody is flipping short. In a true short attack, the funding rate would turn negative first. We haven’t seen that signal yet.
The order-book edges do show divergence: the funding rates for HOME, SAND, and BICO are negative—shorts are paying for these coins. If there’s a rebound, they can easily get squeezed. Meanwhile CLO, SIREN, and O have the opposite situation: longs are more crowded, so pullback risk is more concentrated in these three. Both sides are small-cap coins, and volatility will be amplified much more than in majors.
Even the external narrative is cooling down: Bitcoin has calmed after the surge driven by the $3 billion Bitcoin ETF, but Grayscale’s take is that government debt expansion will be a long-term positive for Bitcoin via “a currency depreciation trade.” From a short-term perspective, leverage is withdrawing; the long-term story hasn’t changed.
Next, watch just one thing: open interest keeps falling, but the funding rate hasn’t turned negative yet—this is position-clearing, not a trend reversal. If you’re truly worried, wait until the funding rate flips negative together—that’s when longs really can’t hold on anymore.
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It is currently 10:00 AM Beijing time. First, let’s go through the order book of the top three gainers on Binance’s 24-hour contracts % gain leaderboard.
All three coins have 24-hour gains of over 48%, and the funding fee rate has also been paid continuously for 8 straight periods by the long side. This indicates that holders of long positions are continuously getting buyers from the short side.
The coin in first place, “Lobster,” rose 89.49% over the past 24 hours. Its 24-hour trading volume was $370 million, and its open interest was $49.13 million. Its open interest surged 148.8% over 24 hours, but the growth rate over the most recent 1 hour is only 1.5%. Adding to positions has been concentrated earlier, and momentum has slowed down for now. The long/short account ratio is just 0.46, with long accounts accounting for only 31%, but the large-trader long/short ratio is 1.56. Retail positioning is leaning short, while large traders are leaning long—there is a divergence between the two sides. The Relative Strength indicator is 76.3, placing it in the overbought zone.
The coin in second place, “AKE,” rose 55.19% over the past 24 hours. Its 24-hour trading volume was $162 million, and its open interest was $40.64 million. Open interest increased 61.7% over 24 hours, but over the latest 1 hour it turned negative, down 1.0%—the pace of adding positions is cooling off. The long/short account ratio is 0.66, with long accounts at 40%. The large-trader long/short ratio is 0.91, and both retail and large traders are relatively cautious. The Relative Strength indicator is 75.1, also in the overbought zone.
The coin in third place, “MAGMA,” rose 48.44% over the past 24 hours. Its 24-hour trading volume was $211 million, and its open interest was $15.37 million. Open interest increased 125.7% over 24 hours. In the latest 1 hour it is still expanding, with the gain reaching 5.9%. It is the only one among the three whose open interest growth is still accelerating. The large-trader long/short ratio is 1.28, leaning long. The Relative Strength indicator is 67.2, in a neutral range, not yet above the overbought threshold.
Among the three coins, two have already had Relative Strength indicators move into the overbought zone, and both are accompanied by funding fees being paid continuously by the long side, along with a sharp jump in open interest over the past 24 hours. This combination of rising price gains, open interest, and funding fees tends to amplify high-level volatility, and drawdown patterns can also become faster. The above is only an objective breakdown of the order book for the top three by 24-hour % gains and does not constitute any trading advice.
Bearish—these contracts’ order book this morning looks more like a high-level distribution warning. The price numbers are still pushing higher, but the structure has started to loosen. Don’t just look at the percentage gain. What you fear isn’t that it won’t rise—it’s that as it keeps rising, the bid support may start thinning out. Next, you need to watch whether a pullback actually plays out: will the thinning-in support be confirmed, and will it continue to do so?
TURBO current price is $0.0011102, up 11.15% over the past 24 hours. The relative strength indicator has already surged to 72.2, entering the overbought zone. Open interest jumped 67% in 24 hours, and positions are pouring in hard—but in the last 1 hour it only increased by 1.1%, so the inflow pace is clearly slowing down. Funding has been paid by longs for 1 straight period, but the rate is only 0.005%—longs can almost not afford to keep paying. The active sell order ratio is 0.94, meaning sell pressure has slightly overtaken buy pressure. The order book liquidity is scattered. That said, funding is still positive for now, and the SuperTrend is still pointing upward—direction hasn’t truly flipped.
DEXE current price is $2.482, up 29.95% in the past 24 hours—the largest gain among the three. RSI is 77.3, also in the overbought zone. Funding has been paid by shorts for 3 consecutive periods, with a rate of -0.158%. Shorts are effectively subsidizing their positions just to maintain them—this is a clear squeeze-by-force signal. Open interest rose 46.5% over 24 hours, but only 1.4% over the last 1 hour, meaning the position-building pace is much slower than the sharp increase over the full 24 hours. The perp-to-spot premium has turned negative to -0.14%, so the chase-long bids are pulling back. The liquidity is scattered. However, the active buy/sell order ratio is 0.99, close to a 50/50 balance—pullback pressure hasn’t truly shown up in the order book yet.
NIL current price is $0.04844, up 14.22% over the past 24 hours. The active buy order ratio is 1.14, the most aggressive buyer among the three. But the long vs. short account ratio is only 0.7, and longs account for just 41% of accounts—retail traders are actually more skewed bearish in terms of number of participants, which diverges from the move higher. Open interest increased 53.4% over 24 hours and is still accelerating by 4.0% in the last 1 hour. Funding has been paid by shorts for 1 straight period, but the rate is low at -0.0115%. RSI is 63.8—still in neutral, not in an overbought position. The liquidity is scattered. Still, open interest is continuing to accelerate into the market, and active buys are also pressing above sells. For now, pullback signals are the least clear among the three.
All three contracts are currently in a phase where the price looks good but the structure has loosened. The larger the gain, the easier it is for the chase bids to get simultaneously tortured by both a snapback (retrace) and a pullback. If support keeps thinning and funding plus the premium keep shrinking back, then the pullback line is already being drawn. If price instead re-expands volume and holds steady, with active buys continuing to press above sells, then this assessment needs to be rechecked.
Bullishness is the direction this set of order book is showing right now. For these three contracts—HEMI, MANTRA, and CHIP—the 24-hour prices are rising in sync with the trend, open interest is climbing along with it, and the aggressive buy orders are also leaning to the long side. Next, watch whether the growth speed of open interest and the funding rate for these coins can continue to support this direction.
For HEMI, what I’m looking at is the funding rate and open interest together validating the longs. The funding rate has been paying longs for 8 straight periods; over the past 24 hours, the price has risen 7.96%, and open interest has increased by 9.2% over the same period. The market is “collecting/chunking” (accumulating positions). However, in the last 1 hour, open interest has actually fallen by 1.1%, which suggests the new positions added in this hour aren’t keeping up with the pace—this is a counter-signal that needs to be watched.
For MANTRA, the order book looks more like the shorts are passively absorbing orders. The funding rate has been paying shorts for 6 straight periods, but over the past 24 hours open interest has surged by 49.0%—clearly new positions are coming in to go against the negative funding rate. The market is “collecting/chunking.” But over the past 24 hours the price has only risen 2.23%, and the upside growth is clearly not keeping up with the explosive jump in open interest—this is another counter-signal that needs to be watched.
For CHIP, what I’m looking at is the strength of aggressive buy orders. The aggressive buy/sell ratio is 1.17; buy orders are pressing above sell orders; over the past 24 hours the price is up 7.22%, and the funding rate has paid longs for 2 consecutive periods. The market is “collecting/chunking.” However, open interest over the past 24 hours has decreased by 2.7%, which suggests this leg of pumping is driven more by existing liquidity pushing the price up, not by newly added positions being piled in—this is a counter-signal that needs to be watched.
If the funding rate and the open interest growth speed for these coins can continue to rise in sync, then the logic for this upward move can keep going; if open interest turns and starts sliding down, and the aggressive buy orders weaken, then this direction needs to be reconsidered.
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Contract Order Book Daily | 8/29 Price and Open Interest Both Fall: Leverage Withdraws Rather Than Flipping Short
$BTC mark price at 77.7k, down 3.18% over the past 24 hours; the 80k level was breached again after a day. Open interest also shrank in step, to $8.229 billion, down 5.8% on the day.
Let’s compare with yesterday’s early session signals. On 8/28, both price and open interest rose together—bulls were adding aggressively, yet sell orders were being pressed down hard. Today is the opposite: both price and open interest fall together. This “two-way decline in the same direction” isn’t new shorts entering to buy the dip—it’s the market participants on the inside collectively reducing positions and exiting. It’s a leverage ebb, not a signal continuation of flipping to short.
Now check the parts that haven’t really broken: funding rates and aggressive trading. Funding rate is still positive. Bulls continue paying shorts; the long position ratio remains above half at 54%. The ratio of aggressive buys to sells is 1.14—buyers are still pressing down on sellers. This indicates the bulls are merely shrinking positions and leaving, not truly capitulating and turning around to short. However, the Fear & Greed Index is still in the greed zone at 73, even though price has fallen this much. This divergence is the real thing to watch: only when the Fear & Greed Index turns downward will the signal be confirmed.
On the market side, the ETF’s ~$3 billion surge has already cooled off; it shifted from a spike to range-bound consolidation. Medium-to-long-term bullish voices are still there (e.g., Grayscale says debt monetization would be bullish for Bitcoin), but in the short term this is classic resistance at high levels.
Watch short-squeeze risk in $SAND : funding rate -0.325%. Shorts are heaviest there; DEXE and BICO follow closely. For longs that are crowded, look at $PDD : funding rate turned positive to +0.179%. GEV and “lobster” are also piling in. If there’s a reverse move, these order books have the greatest upside elasticity.
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Start by looking at a single number for the morning order-book setup.
The lobster is up 80.4%. Over the past 24 hours, the highest price was 0.068999 and the lowest was 0.033. The amplitude is more than double, with trading volume of 341 million.
Volatility is big enough, but the accompanying changes in open interest and the active buy order data are both absent—so you can’t verify whether this is real money or just a pulse. From a risk-control perspective, set this one aside for now; don’t treat it as a valid signal.
The data point $MAGMA matches.
The funding rate is still positive at 0.038%, meaning the shorts are still paying to hold their position.
Open interest surged 75.8% in one hour, and trading volume expanded in sync to 175 million—not a “fake pump” with shrinking volume.
Active buy order share is 0.96—almost all buys are pushing the price.
The three numbers point in the same direction. This is the one signal this entry is trying to convey: the shorts haven’t exited; fresh positions are piling in, and the buy side is extremely one-sided.
The invalidation condition is simple: if the funding rate turns negative, or if open interest reverses and starts trending downward, then this structure is immediately void—you don’t need to look at any other indicators.
$AKE has the same shape: the funding rate turns positive, open interest rises 37.2%, and active buy orders are 0.95. You can use it as a reference, but the core is still whether the MAGMA leg will break first.
From ranks 4 to 10: DEXE up 26%, HEMI up 15.2%, EDEN up 14.7%, LIGHT up 14.2%, TURBO up 11.8%, CHILLGUY up 10.8%, NIL up 10.8%. The gains are clearly narrowed by one “step” compared with the top three.
On the decliners list, BMT is worth watching. The funding rate has already turned negative to -0.018%, open interest decreased by 32.4%, indicating positions are truly withdrawing—exactly the opposite of the earlier squeeze structure.
The lobster surged from 0.033 to 0.065519 within 24 hours; the current price is 0.062106, up 77.6%, with trading volume of $302 million.
The funding rate is only 0.132%, so the long positions’ cost basis isn’t high, suggesting this rally hasn’t yet pushed leverage to extreme levels.
MAGMA is up 34.9%. The price has broken above 0.48616 and is pressing toward the intraday high of 0.50466.
Open interest skyrocketed by 62.9% in one hour, the fastest growth among the three.
The ratio of passive to active buy/sell orders is 1.11, but the long-vs-short position count ratio is only 0.82. There are more shorts on the account side, yet the active buy orders on the order book are clearly dominant. This mismatch is a prelude to shorts being forced to exit.
HEMI is up 31.1%. Trading volume of $316 million is the largest among the three.
Open interest also jumped sharply by 48.3%, while the funding rate is only 0.005%. Leverage hasn’t been fully stacked; liquidity and momentum can still hold, providing a basis for continuation.
Overall, capital seems more willing to concentrate into names where open interest spikes first. The “volume leading price” structure is more worth watching than simply chasing percentage gains. Next, the key is whether these shorts can be squeezed out completely.
Ranks 4 to 10: DEXE up 27.2%, LIGHT up 22.6%, AKE up 18.0%, EDEN up 16.8%, UB up 15.4%, LAB up 12.9%, CHILLGUY up 10.5%.
On the decliners’ board, MVLL is down 21.8%, yet the funding rate is positive at 0.022%—the longs are still paying to hold positions.
Open interest also rose by 43.1%. With the price falling, open interest rising, and longs still paying— the further this grinding continues, the more likely it is to get squeezed out in the opposite direction.
Contract Order Book Daily Report|8/28 Greed intensifies, but leverage is retreating
At 23:00 Beijing time, the most counterintuitive scene in the evening order book is divergence.
The $BTC mark price is $79,732, down 0.57%, while open interest simultaneously drops to $8.473 billion—$3% evaporated in a day.
The share of long accounts doesn’t fall but rises to 51%. The aggressive buy/sell ratio is 0.91, yet sell-side power remains dominant.
Translated into plain language, this combination means: it’s not panic-driven liquidation; someone is taking profits. The account structure is still tilted toward longs, but the capital is quietly withdrawing.
The Fear and Greed Index is 73, in the greed zone—this doesn’t line up with the price pullback. Sentiment is much more optimistic than price. This kind of divergence is typically a precursor to either a catch-up rally or a catch-up drop; it’s not a stable state.
For Bitcoin, the de-risking is also well timed. Options worth $6.4 billion are about to expire, and the contract funding rate is still positive at 0.005. Longs remain willing to pay to hold positions; the reduction looks more like position cleanup ahead of settlement than a signal of trend reversal.
Ethereum is another story.
The $ETH funding rate is 0.0082, the highest among the four major coins. At the same time, Ethereum spot funds attracted $226 million in a single day—nearly catching up to the inflows to Bitcoin spot funds on the same day. Both spot and perpetuals are adding long exposure. The heat is indeed concentrated on Ethereum.
$SOL , on the other hand, is moving in the opposite direction.
The funding rate falls to -0.73%. With the mark price at 106.3, down 0.39%, shorts are continuously paying to short. Yet the market is still circulating news that Charles Schwab Asset Management plans to launch SOL, AVAX, and LINK for institutional trading. The spot narrative is improving, but the derivatives side is adding short positions—both sides are out of sync. The negative funding rates of small-cap coins like MANTRA, BICO, and SAND follow the same logic: in areas crowded with shorts, if price rebounds, it’s easy to trigger a squeeze.
Next, watch three things: after options expiration, will Bitcoin open interest stop falling and rebound to make up losses? Will Ethereum’s funding rate continue to rise along with the spot ETF/fund inflows? And for SOL, will crowded shorts ultimately be validated by the news—or will they get slapped in a short squeeze?
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About 14 hours ago, during the morning pullback watch, I analyzed this set of three bullish coins. Now the accounting is done: 1 has broken out, 1 has stalled, and 1 is still struggling and hasn’t fully cashed out.
The observation at the time was that the chips were consolidating; now, based on the open order book, I’ll explain each one clearly, one by one.
MOVR: Stalled. The bullish setup in the morning didn’t break out. After the initial price launch, it pulled back 5.54%; the direction has already turned opposite to the “pull-up” observation. Open interest also synced with outflows, down 11.39%. The aggressive buy volume fell from 1.12 to 0.83. The heat didn’t reconnect—this is capital withdrawing, not a shakeout.
RE: Struggling. The bullish signal hasn’t yet converted into a direction. After the initial price launch, it dipped slightly by 2.95%. Open interest shrank in sync, down 4.35%, and volume also dropped by nearly 15%. The long-position share is down to only 29%. Buys couldn’t further concentrate; the direction is stuck in place, and it can’t be considered confirmed yet.
HEMI: Realized/cashed out. This morning’s bullish move did break out. After the initial price launch, it continued rising by 15.55%. Open interest expanded in sync, up 21.39%, and trading volume increased by more than one and a half times. Price, volume, and open interest all moved upward together—buying is still following through, not just propped up by a single push.
Next, I’m still watching the same line: whether HEMI’s bullish momentum can be maintained under expanding volume. Once price stalls upward while open interest turns down, the momentum behind the breakout will be weakening. For MOVR and RE, we’ll see whether they can stop falling and stabilize, and whether open interest can first stop the outflow—those would be the counter-conditions for re-confirming direction.
BEAMX: Fulfillment—this morning’s high-level distribution sell-off warning has materialized. After the initial price release, it continued to weaken by 6.18%. It went from a rise of 23.27% directly to the current decline of 11.87%. Trading volume shrank in sync by 57.27%, indicating this pullback wasn’t created by heavy-volume selling; instead, it’s the result of thinning support along the way, and buy-side demand can’t keep up.
PROM: Retracement. This morning’s bearish call didn’t develop into a one-way selloff. After the initial price release, it actually moved up by 6.5% instead of falling. Open interest also increased by 9.36%, suggesting some funds are adding positions against the direction of the warning. For now, this distribution setup has been pushed back.
CHIP: Retracement—the most “contrarian” one among the three. After the initial price release, it rallied by 13.81%. Open interest surged by 19.39%. Active buy orders also rose from 0.72 to 1.01. The funding rate turned negative, yet the price kept climbing—bulls are lifting through active buying, while shorts are being passively held up. So far this morning’s bearish direction has not been confirmed.
About 13 hours ago, among these three coins in the morning “high-level distribution—bearish” watch list, only 1 started to weaken, while the other 2 were still retracing. The initial watch was basically a case of chips being dispersed.
Next, what to watch on this line: for BEAMX, whether it can continue to break down with expanding volume and whether the support continues to thin—this determines whether it truly enters a real one-way move. For PROM and CHIP, watch whether the increase in open interest turns back down, and whether active buying begins to fade—only if these signals change can we say it has returned to the bearish logic. At the moment, it’s still too early.
The top three on the contract gainers list this morning—it's time to reconcile again at this point in the evening.
SKR: the conclusion is “all burned out.” Price is down 13.97% from the initial launch, falling from 0.012132 to the current 0.010437. Open interest also shrank by 7.19%, down to $28.83 million. Funding rate moved deeper from -0.0761% to -0.0835%, meaning short-side costs have not eased.
MOVR: the conclusion is “pulling and tugging.” Price is only slightly revised down by 2.86% from the initial launch; at the current price of 0.9349, it hasn’t broken out in a single direction. Open interest decreased by 7.04% to $61.331 million, and trading volume also fell by 7.44%; the funding rate is basically flat around 0.005%.
HEMI: the conclusion is “realized.” Price continues to rise 10.58% from the initial launch, now at 0.011855. Open interest, instead of falling, increased by 13.92% to $180.313 million. Trading volume surged by 99.87%, nearing a near-doubling, and the funding rate stayed at 0.005% without turning.
Of the three, only HEMI shows price and open interest moving upward in the same direction. Just focus on this one signal: as long as open interest continues to net increase and price holds above the current level of 0.011855, the “realized” logic still stands. Once open interest turns to net outflow and price falls below 0.011855, this realization signal is considered invalid.
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BEAMX: Fulfillment. The bearish alert from the morning’s high-level distribution has finally played out.
After the initial price release, it pulled back 4.18%. The gain narrowed from 23.27% to 15.58%, meaning the direction and the assessment during the pull-up have now been reversed.
Open interest also decreased by 3.01%, while trading volume expanded by 5.65%. This suggests real funds exited at this level—not a thin-volume, drifting-down decline. The earlier view that “the chips are dispersing” in the morning was validated by the order book.
PROM: Tugging. The bearish move from the morning didn’t materialize yet.
After the initial release, price actually rose 1.13%. Open interest increased further by 2.7%, indicating the high level wasn’t able to suppress the price—new positions are entering instead.
The strength of aggressive buying also rose from 0.86 to 1.29, meaning the short-term buyers are clearly more proactive. This goes against the original distribution judgment; the bearish logic has not yet been verified.
CHIP: Tugging as well—still no clear single-direction drop.
After the initial release, price climbed 2.26%. Open interest increased in sync by 2.67%. Neither the gains nor the volume show signs of weakening; instead, price, volume, and positions are pushing upward together.
Aggressive buying rose from 0.72 to 1.1. The baton-pass from buyers is more enthusiastic than this morning, and the warning of distribution at the high level has been temporarily disproven.
Of the three morning alerts, only BEAMX has shown a substantive pullback so far. PROM and CHIP are still tugging above their original ranges, and even open interest and aggressive buying are moving upward. Next, watch to see whether: for BEAMX, support at this level becomes thinner and whether the downtrend continues. For PROM and CHIP, look the other way—if price makes new highs, open interest continues to build, and aggressive buying remains relatively strong, then the morning’s high-level distribution watch on these two will need to be reexamined.
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The set sent about 6 hours ago was a pull-up observation · bullish. Now we reconcile it against the public order book. At the time, the initial observation was that the chips were accumulating. The track record isn’t great: among the three coins that were bullish in the morning, none has fully followed through—one stalled out, two are still being pulled back and forth, and no one-sided confirmation has formed.
MOVR: It stalled; the early bullish move didn’t break out. The price has fallen 3.47% from the initial call, and the 24-hour price change has narrowed from 39.88% to 2.0%. Heat has basically been wiped out. Open interest is down in sync by 2.79%; the share of aggressive buy volume dropped from 1.12 to 0.89. The money chasing longs has exited—this isn’t a case where someone is stepping in at low levels.
RE: Choppy; both the price and the capital structure haven’t formed a one-sided confirmation. The 24-hour price change has shifted from 2.16% at the initial call to -3.02% now. The direction has already deviated from bullish. Open interest is down 1.75%, and the aggressive buy share has fallen to 0.65. When the price drops, there isn’t capital coming in to take—more like a volume contraction cooling off, not a wash-and-recharge move.
HEMI: Also choppy; it looks like there’s participation, but the buy-side doesn’t have solid proof. Compared with the initial call, open interest increased by 3.17%, and volume surged 44.97%—positions are indeed being built up. But the aggressive buy share has barely changed, from 1.05 to 1.04. In the long/short ratio, only 44% are bullish. This buildup looks more like passive following than active buyers competing to accumulate. Price has only moved up 1.53%. The upside hasn’t been confirmed by the buy-side, and it hasn’t been disproven either.
Next, watch whether the aggressive buy share and the long/short ratio can both lift their heads together. If HEMI’s aggressive buy share expands along with its position build-up, then the bullish thesis for this wave is truly confirmed. For MOVR and RE, watch whether open interest and the funding rate continue trending downward; if it breaks below the level of the initial call, then the bullish thesis is disproven.
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Daily Futures Order Book Report|8/28 Price and Position Rise Together, Sell Side Still Heavy
At 11:30 a.m., the marked price of $BTC was 79,893.7 USD, up 1.31%, while total open interest also increased 3.5% to 8.691 billion USD.
When both price and positions rise together, it suggests new leverage is following the rebound, but the ratio of aggressive buy/sell activity is only 0.71—aggressive selling still clearly outweighs.
The current upswing looks more like sell orders being absorbed rather than the buyer proactively sweeping.
Longs account for only 48%, yet the funding rate is positive at 0.0076%, combined with “fear and greed” at 73, resulting in a structural mismatch in the order book.
The number of shorts is slightly higher, but long positions still bear the holding cost, implying that a portion of large leverage is concentrated on the long side.
$SOL rose by 5.3%, with a positive funding rate of 0.0031%. Leverage in strong coins is heating up faster, and when a pullback happens, it is also more likely to trigger chain-reaction de-leveraging.
This Friday, about $6.4 billion in Bitcoin options expires, and the contest around the $80,000 area may be further amplified.
Earlier, price approached $81,000, while the market awaited signals from the Jackson Hole speech. Now the marked price has fallen back below $80,000 again, indicating this level has not yet been firmly established.
BitGo’s acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business and expansion of derivatives services is a mid-term incremental development; its impact on the near-term direction is weaker than that of option expiry and the existing leverage structure.
Two risk boundaries to watch: If total open interest keeps rising but the aggressive buy/sell ratio remains below 1, the simultaneous rise in price and positions could turn into leverage profit-taking at any moment. If price re-establishes above $80,000 and aggressive buying strengthens again, only when the short share reaches 52% would it convert into fuel for short covering.