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‘No one slept that night’: How hedge funds rode out crypto’s darkest weekend

Traders say high leverage and thin liquidity helped fuel ‘catastrophic’ losses as digital assets dived

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As the crypto market reels from the largest weekend of liquidations in its history, traders say overleverage and thin liquidity helped trigger the significant losses felt by the industry.

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