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Crypto Fear and Greed Index hits 62 after $1.44B in shorts are wiped out Crypto traders have gone from fearful to greedy remarkably quickly, where just one day earlier, the index stood at 46, firmly i

Crypto Fear and Greed Index hits 62 after $1.44B in shorts are wiped out

Crypto traders have gone from fearful to greedy remarkably quickly, where just one day earlier, the index stood at 46, firmly in “Fear.”

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index jumped to 62 on August 20, up 16 points in a single day, as Bitcoin’s surge beyond $72,000 was accompanied by the shift that came after a rally that caught traders betting on another decline off guard.

Fear disappears as Bitcoin pushes above $72K
The change looks even sharper over a longer period.

Last week, the index was down at 29, but one month ago, it was at 25, putting the market in “Extreme Fear.”

Just the same way the index has moved dramatically, recently, so has the Bitcoin price.

The $BTC price was around $72,465 at the time of writing and briefly reached $72,868. But the rally began with Bitcoin below $65,000 on August 19 before other assets followed its lead.

Ethereum and other major altcoins saw an increase in price, just as $BTC did, and crypto-related stocks also saw positive moves.

On the same day these assets were seeing major price moves, President Donald Trump renewed his push for Congress to pass the CLARITY Act, keeping crypto policy in focus in Washington, but neither development alone establishes why Bitcoin rallied so sharply.

$1.44B bet on falling prices goes wrong
Many traders had placed bets on crypto prices to keep falling, but instead, the market suddenly went the other way.

AMBCrypto reported $1.61 billion in liquidations over 24 hours on August 19, and about $1.44 billion was from traders betting on lower prices.

Bitcoin saw $861.06 million of those short losses, while Ethereum was responsible for another $424.21 million.

The scale of those losses helps explain why sentiment changed so quickly, but still, a Fear and Greed reading of 62 does not mean price will continue going higher.

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Altcoin SUI enters ideal spot for accumulation.

Expert analyst shares two possible scenarios.

SUI could see another dip before a surge or surge directly. 

The altcoin market continues to be a prime source of stress and hope for the crypto community. Ever since the previous bull market missed its expected altseason pump phase, the long-awaited altseason peak seems to be a wishful dream. Even as altcoins show promising signs for pumps, they continue to see a dip in price. At the moment, altcoin SUI enters ideal spot for accumulation.

Altcoin SUI Enters Ideal Spot for Accumulation 
According to CoinMarketCap analytics, the price of SUI is currently trading at the $0.64 price range, showing that the asset is down by 4.19% in the past 24 hours.  The asset is also down by 6% and 13.53% over the past 7 days and 30 days respectively. Early last year, the price of SUI set its ATH record at the $5.34 price range. This means that the price of SUI will have to pull a pump of almost 100% to reclaim its previous ATH price record. 

So far, the crypto market has not seen any luck with altcoin price pump, especially not as compared to Bitcoin’s run. In detail, over the past two years, the price of Bitcoin went on to surge from the $65,000 price range to the $126,000 price range, hitting a high number of new ATH price records. Its momentum even led to bullish ATH forecasts expecting the asset to hit numbers as high as $500,000.

Instead, the bear market arrived leading to not only the price of BTC falling to lower prices but also to altcoins failing to surge and hit new ATH prices of their own.  Most altcoins either missed their pump or failed to reclaim their previous ATH prices, let alone hit new ATH records, despite many assets showing strong bullish indicators across their price charts.

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Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins are breaking records as short position liquidations pass $3 billion over two days.



Key points:



Crypto short liquidations since Thursday are in excess of $3.1 billion, per CoinGlass data.
Bitcoin continues its upside reaction to a US Treasury liquidity intervention, approaching $72,000.
Bitcoin short-term holders take profit on previously underwater positions and move 43,300 BTC.


Two-day crypto short liquidations hit $3.1 billion



Data from CoinGlass shows ongoing crypto short liquidations at $3.1 billion for Aug. 19-20. Thursday’s tally was largest single-day wipeout of shorts ever recorded.




Crypto liquidations history (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass



On Wednesday, BTC/USD led the charge by reacting to a liquidity intervention by the US Treasury with a price spike to the highest levels seen since the start of June. At the time of writing, upside continues, with the pair reaching local highs of $71,992 on Bitstamp, per data from TradingView.




BTC/USD one-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView



CoinGlass shows Bitcoin accounting for just over half of the total short liquidations at $1.65 billion.



The numbers do not represent the largest crypto liquidation event if long positions are included. It is dwarfed by the $20 billion long liquidation cascade that followed Bitcoin’s reversal from the most recent all-time high of $126,200 in October 2025.



In US dollar terms, data from CoinMarketCap puts Thursday’s total liquidations in seventh place historically, calculating the day’s long and short liquidations as $3.25 billion.



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Bitcoin investors, meanwhile, capitalized on positions that were previously held at an unrealized loss.



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Enforcement operates at two levels. The sequencer simulates transactions and rejects those that violate the configured rules before they enter a block. For transactions submitted through the parent chain's Delayed Inbox, a sentinel can register the transaction hash with an onchain guardian so the state transition function forcibly fails it when it is included.

That second layer is designed to prevent a restricted user from bypassing the sequencer through Arbitrum's force-inclusion path. The documentation also says restricted addresses are stored as salted hashes rather than plaintext and recommends that chains wait at least 30 days after the ArbOS 61 release on Arbitrum One before adopting the feature.

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The upgrade went live after approval through Arbitrum governance. The governance proposal included compliance and priority-fee capabilities in ArbOS 61 but left them intentionally disabled on Arbitrum One and Nova. The compliance filter is therefore not a new screening system for users of Arbitrum One; it is configurable tooling for owners of dedicated Arbitrum chains.

Chain Owners Control the Filter

Arbitrum's technical documentation says compliance filtering is off by default and that chain owners must explicitly configure and enable each component. An owner can select an external compliance provider, such as TRM Labs or Chainalysis, to produce a restricted-address list and can define rules covering transfers, contract calls and other interactions involving those addresses.

Enforcement operates at two levels. The sequencer simulates transactions and rejects those that violate the configured rules before they enter a block. For transactions submitted through the parent chain's Delayed Inbox, a sentinel can register the transaction hash with an onchain guardian so the state transition function forcibly fails it when it is included.

That second layer is designed to prevent a restricted user from bypassing the sequencer through Arbitrum's force-inclusion path. The documentation also says restricted addresses are stored as salted hashes rather than plaintext and recommends that chains wait at least 30 days after the ArbOS 61 release on Arbitrum One before adopting the feature.





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