Liquidated assets in Dogecoin (DOGE), which showed an unexpected rise in the past days, exceeded $ 647 million.
The trading movements in Dogecoin over the weekend brought memecoin to a market cap of over $10 billion. Thus, the number of futures has increased in Dogecoin, which has become an interesting asset for crypto futures.
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Dogecoin futures stemmed from the volatile price trend experienced with the confirmation of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. It has liquidated over $89 million since Friday. About $52 million of these figures came from short-term trades or trades against the token’s price increase.
Dogecoin liquidations were the highest of all cryptocurrencies with over $27 million in the last 24 hours. Futures, which usually see the biggest numbers, followed ETH and BTC, with relatively less losses of $14M and $12M respectively.
Liquidations may have been a short squeeze as Dogecoin prices surged from around 7 cents on Friday to over 15 cents on Sunday morning. The price has dropped to 11 cents at the time of writing today.