How Crypto's Promised Year-End Rally Turned Into a Market Bloodbath

MEVictim · 2026-01-01T14:32:00+00:00

Despite optimistic projections for a year-end crypto surge, the market faced a $19 billion liquidation in October, resulting in a liquidity crisis and turning potential gains into significant losses.

MEVictim

2026-01-01 14:32:00

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Source: CryptoNewsNet Original Title: How crypto’s promised year-end fireworks turned into a bloodbath Original Link: Crypto was supposed to go out with a bang this year.

Heading into the fourth quarter, bitcoin was riding a wave of strong ETF inflows, digital asset treasuries (DATs) pitching themselves as leveraged bets on the next leg higher, and analysts dusting off charts showing the year’s final three months as crypto’s most reliable winning streak.

Add in the promise of looser monetary policy and a friendlier political backdrop in Washington, and many investors convinced themselves of bitcoin heading to fresh record prices into the end of the year.

Instead, here’s what happened: A $19 billion liquidation cascade in October blew a hole in liquidity, spot altcoin ETFs failed to offset selling pressure, and the new crop of treasury-heavy crypto stocks have already started morphing from structural buyers into potential forced sellers.

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QuietlyStaking

· 4h ago

Coming back with this again? The year-end rebound dream is shattered, is it really like this?

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CryptoNomics

· 4h ago

lmao "promised year-end rally" — if you actually ran a basic time-series regression on macro-correlated assets, you'd see this volatility was statistically inevitable, not some surprise plot twist

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