Bitcoin Leverage Just "Lost 54% of Its Weight" — Why $65K is Harder to Break This Time 🏋️‍♂️📊

By Namky | TuilaNamky | 16 Jul 2026

There’s a question every trader has wondered at least once: "If the price is holding like this, is it truly steady—or is it just leverage-built tension waiting to blow up?" This time, the on-chain data answers pretty decisively—and the good news is: it’s not that. 📉 The "Spring" Has Been Loosened Think of leverage like a spring. The more you compress it, the more violently it snaps back when it releases. Back in October last year: The "spring" of the Bitcoin market was nearly compressed to its limit. Open Interest (OI) hit an all-time high of $47B (Note: adjusted from $4.7B), and the Estimated Leverage Ratio (ELR) touched 0.28. Everyone knows what came after that: an unforgiving wipeout. So what about now? Open Interest is down to $21.6B—more than halved from the peak. ELR is sitting at a much healthier 0.25. The Funding Rate is slightly positive (~0.02%)—the long side has the advantage, but not to the reckless, overly greedy extent seen in those spikes that climbed to 0.08%. Most importantly, there hasn’t been a massive wave of long liquidations recently. This means nobody has been forced into a fire sale, and no dominoes are about to fall. 🧱 A Solid Foundation, Not a House of Cards In other words: this time, the $65K price level isn’t a building propped up by unstable leverage—it’s more like a foundation that’s been cleaned up much more neatly than 9 months ago. Of course, a "looser spring" doesn’t mean anything is immortal. OI still has room to expand again, and crypto markets always find new ways to create drama. But at least this time, if the price rises further, it will rise because there’s room for it to rise—not because it’s "borrowing from the future" to pay for the present. 💬 What do you think? Is this a durable, spot-driven uptrend, or just a quiet lull before the next leverage storm? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below! Data source: CryptoQuant #Bitcoin #OpenInterest #FundingRate #OnChainAnalysis #BTC

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I am a cryptocurrency investor and an active content creator on Binance Square. I specialize in writing market updates, technical analysis, and sharing insights about cryptocurrency portfolios (focusing on top digital assets like BTC, ETH, and Web3 trends

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