In brief – Bitcoin climbed 7.9% over 24 hours to around $77,137—up 23.2% on the week—after touching an intraday high of $79,320. – The rally triggered a short squeeze, with CoinGlass logging about $1.5 billion in total crypto liquidations across 178,777 traders in 24…
urs—roughly $1.21 billion of it in shorts. – The surge follows a week of bullish Washington sentiment, including Trump backing the Clarity Act and signaling regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid onshore.. Bitcoin extended its rally on Friday, punishing traders who had bet against it and wiping out more than a billion dollars in bearish positions
The largest cryptocurrency changed hands around $77,137, up 7.9% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data, after touching an intraday high of $79,320. The move capped a strong week that left Bitcoin up 23.2% over seven days, even as it remained down roughly 31.8% from a year ago. The surge steamrolled leveraged short sellers.
CoinGlass data showed about $1.5 billion in total crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours across 178,777 traders, with short positions accounting for roughly $1.21 billion of that sum. Bitcoin alone drove about $17.25 million in liquidations on the one-hour heatmap, and the single largest liquidation order in the last day was a $23.59 million BTC position wiped out on Hyperliquid. The dynamic is a textbook short squeeze, in which rising prices force bearish traders to buy back their positions, adding fuel that pushes prices even higher.