OVERVIEW
Crypto Data Dive - Week 42
Welcome to the Crypto Data Dive for Week 42 of 2025!
In this issue, we'll dive into the data to keep you informed about the progress of the overall crypto market and shine a spotlight on emerging and established trends.
What You’ll Find In The Crypto Data Dive has three main objectives:
- Total and Altcoin caps, stamped with YTD moves and the gap to ATH.
- Seven-layer market-cap recap (TMC ex-stables, ex-top-50, and five more flavors).
- Crypto Index Performance covering 12 indices.
- The Liquidation Station boards the train with 30-day totals plus a 7-day heatmap for maximum schadenfreude.
- Market Heatmap, Social Volume Heatmap, Active Address Heatmap.
- ETF scorecards for BTC and ETH still tracking 7- and 30-day flows.
So, without further delay, let's jump right into the data from week 42 and explore its intriguing insights!
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Crypto Market Cap Update
What is the broader trend within the crypto market? The simplest way to track this is by using three market cap charts. So let's see what we got.
*the price levels and performance values may be very different from what you read in your mailbox vs. what's happening in the live market. This is especially true when crypto faces a new bull or bear run.
Total Market Cap
- All-Time High Close: $4.22 trillion
- YTD: +12%
- From ATH: -14%
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Altcoin Market Cap
- All-Time High: $1.73 trillion
- YTD: +7%
- From ATH: -15%
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Crypto Index RRG
Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG) help us visualize how a currency or sector performs compared to a benchmark - in this case, the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY). Think of the four colored sectors as stages in a race:
- Leading Quadrant (green) - You're a champ! 🏆 You're ahead of everyone else, and the crowd is cheering. But watch out; you might be overdoing it.
- Weakening Quadrant (yellow) - You're slowing down 😓 and losing your lead. Maybe you're a bit demoralized because your biggest fan didn't show up. You're now in the middle of the pack.
- Lagging Quadrant (red) - Disaster strikes! 😱 You're injured, exhausted, or just made a big mistake. You're now in last place, and it's a sad scene.
- Improving Quadrant (blue) - Time for a comeback! 💪 Your motivation returns, the music swells, and you're picking up speed. You're back in the middle, catching up with the leaders.
Analyzing the RRG Examples
Example 1: Rapid Rotation
- If an instrument moves quickly through all four quadrants, it could indicate high volatility or erratic behavior. Traders may want to be cautious or use appropriate risk management strategies in such cases.
Example 2: Stuck in the Middle
- An instrument that remains close to the center of the RRG might be in a consolidation phase, lacking a clear trend or momentum. Traders might wait for a decisive move before entering a position.
Example 3: Consistent Leader
- If an instrument stays in the Leading Quadrant (top right) for an extended period, it could signify a strong, sustained uptrend. Traders might consider buying opportunities or riding the trend.
Example 4: Slow Recovery
- An instrument that gradually moves from the Lagging Quadrant (bottom left) to the Improving Quadrant (blue) and eventually to the Leading Quadrant (green) could indicate a slow but steady recovery. Traders might look for potential reversal or bottom-fishing opportunities.
The GIF below shows the past 21 days of movement on the RRG.
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The GIF below shows the past 13 weeks of movement on the RRG.
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Total Market Cap (TMC) Performance For 2025
| Index | Value | Weekly Performance |
| TMC Excluding BTC and ETH | $958B | -12% |
| TMC Excluding BTC and Stablecoins | $1.12T | -14% |
| TMC Excluding BTC, ETH, and Stablecoins | $673B | -16% |
| TMC Excluding Stablecoins | $3.21T | -12% |
| TMC Excluding Top 10 | $237B | -19% |
| TMC Excluding Top 50 | $57B | -22% |
| TMC Excluding Top 100 | $12B | -21% |
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Crypto Index Performance For 2025
| Index | Weekly Performance |
| AI | -18% |
| Decentralized Finance | -17% |
| Decentralized Physical Infrastructure | -15% |
| Exchange Tokens | -11% |
| Layer 1 | -12% |
| Meme | -23% |
| Proof-Of-Stake | -12% |
| Proof-Of-Work | -12% |
| Real World Asset Tokenization | -18% |
| Rehypothecated | -11% |
| Smart Contracts | -13% |
| Stablecoins | +1% |
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Liquidation Station
Interested in how much has been flushed out of leveraged long and short positions? Who’s getting hurt the most? This is the best place to get an idea of how leveraged positions are doing.
30-day Total Liquidations
What You’re Looking At
- Green bars above zero = longs blown out because price fell.
- Red bars below zero = shorts blown out because price ripped.
- Left-hand scale is U.S. dollars (millions); the dashed line near the top sits at $1B.
30-day Total Crypto Liquidation Chart - Click to enlarge.
- October 9 - the outlier. A mega long wipe ≈ $12-14B in a single day. True cascade.
- September 21-24 - two smaller green pulses inside this window, the biggest near $1.0-1.1B(aftershock behavior).
- September 29 - October 1 - red days for shorts, roughly $150-300M each.
- October 13-16 - steady grind of small red bars while price slid - shorts getting clipped on bounces, then re-arming.
7-day Liquidation Heat Map
What You’re Looking At
- Rows = coins, columns = timestamps.
- Color = head-count of forced liquidations (legend tops at 2,000).
- A cell showing “BTC 1,600” means 1,600 separate BTC positions were liquidated.
7-day Cryptocurrency Liquidation Heatmap - Click to enlarge.
- October 10 (UTC afternoon) - broad orange wall across BTC/ETH/SOL/XRP. Kickoff from the post-event unwind.
- October 12-13 - majors cycle yellow → orange several times; alts echo one notch cooler 1-3 hours later.
- October 14 - another hot stretch: ETH runs hotter than BTC; DOGE and SOL print frequent yellows.
- October 16 - late-week flare in majors, then a fade back to greens as leverage re-arms.
- Persistent one-offs: ASTER and XPL show long orange bands (product-specific flow, not market-wide).
Some Interesting Insights
- One print ran the month: Oct 9 - $12-19B in long liquidations. The rest are ripples.
- Aftershocks behaved to script:smaller green spikes within days, then alternating red prints as shorts tried to fade rebounds.
- Head-count stayed elevated:multiple BTC/ETH yellow→orangeruns this week = thousands of accounts per hour getting clipped, with ETH often the hotter row.
- Same rule still works: any day > $600M liquidated or any hour > 1,500 head-count usually precedes a sharp counter-move inside 24-48 hours.
- Process tip: watch majors first, cut alt risk the moment those rows heat up, and expect the opposite-side stop-hunt after outsized prints.
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One-Week Crypto Heat Map
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One-Month Crypto Heat Map
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Quarterly Crypto Heat Map
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YTD Heat Map
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