Over $150 Million Liquidated as ETH Price Skyrockets to a Monthly High

Time Stamp: July 16, 2022 1:28 PM

The price of ETH has exploded in the past couple of hours, reaching an intraday high at around $1420. This happens a day after developers confirmed that the ETH 2.0 merge is on track to happen in September.

  • According to data from Coinglass, the past four hours saw over $150 million in liquidated ETH positions.
  • The largest single liquidation order happened on FTX, and it carried a face value of $2.81 million.
  • Needless to say, the majority of the liquidated positions were short.
  • This happened on the back of ETH exploding by 7% in a single hourly candle, charting a high of $1422 on Binance.
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Source: TradingView
  • The volume on that candle has been over $300 million.
  • The last time ETH was trading at these prices was back on June 13th, meaning that the cryptocurrency charted a monthly high.
  • Ethereum is up over 10% in the past 24 hours and a whopping 40% in the past 48 hours.
  • It’s worth noting that the increase comes a day after developers confirmed that the ETH 2.0 merge is on track to happen in September.
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