April 27, 2026

Amberdata Digital Asset Snapshot: BTC Short Squeeze, ETF Flows Surge, & Liquidity Deepens

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Inflation is sticky at 3.3% year-on-year, the 10-year sits near 4.33%, and the Fed is holding rates steady, a difficult backdrop compounded by the Strait of Hormuz standoff keeping oil elevated. The full second-round impact from freight costs is 4-6 weeks from the data, with shipping, aviation, and manufacturing absorbing input pressures. Inside crypto, a BTC short squeeze is running, which can move the price, but mechanical short closure is not a regime change.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Squeeze direction: Short squeeze in BTC: shorts liquidated $25.15M against $3.13M longs, L/S ratio at 0.97x sits in the 10th 90-day percentile, with funding negative for 18 sessions.
Correlation: BTC/ETH 30-day correlation reads 0.73x and ranks at the 90-day high, eliminating intra-cohort diversification this week. Risk reduction requires hedging beyond the BTC/ETH pair.
Funding regime: Split across the cohort: BTC at -4.5% APR (17th percentile), ETH at +5.5% (93rd) and SOL at +4.4% (89th). Market aggregate funding sits positive at 1.5%.
ETF flow: BTC spot ETF inflows extended to a 5-session streak with $556.1M booked over the week, while ETH ETFs printed a 7-day net outflow of $242.9M.
MACRO: 10-year yield at 4.33%, March CPI printed 3.3% year-on-year and 0.9% month-on-month, Fed holds next week. Strait of Hormuz disruption keeps oil-led inflation in the data pipeline.

Executive Summary

Market summary for BTC and ETH BTC and ETH funding rates

BTC and ETH liquidity spread and depth Positioning summary for BTC and ETH. OI, Perps, Futures

ETF flows summary for BTC and ETH. AUM, Holdings, Daily Flow, 7D flow, Flow streak. Stablecoin summary USDT and USDC

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1. Market

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Price snapshot: BTC at $78,629 sits in the 93rd 90-day percentile, ETH at $2,368.64 in the 92nd, both pressing the upper bound of their recent range.
Volume void: BTC 7-day spot volume sits at the 9th percentile and ETH at the 4th, the move higher is occurring on thin participation.
Volatility regime: BTC RV 7D/30D ratio at 0.87x and ETH at 0.80x show short-term realized vol compressing below baseline, dampening near-term tail risk.

BTC closes at $78,629, ranking in the 93rd 90-day percentile, while ETH at $2,368.64 sits at the 92nd. Spot volume tells a different story: BTC 7-day volume of $66.11B falls in the 9th percentile and ETH at $27.93B in the 4th. Derivatives-to-spot ratios stay elevated at 3.69x for BTC and 6.83x for ETH. BTC/ETH 30-day correlation at 0.73x marks a 90-day high.

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Price snapshot aave avax bnb btc doge eth link sol uni wlfi xrp

CHARTS

price performance 90 day BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, WLFI, AAVE Realized volatility regime BTC 7 day, ETH 7 day, and SOL 7 day

DETAIL TABLES

volatility and distribution Aave avax BNB BTC DOGE ETH Volume snapshot Aave, BTC, WLFI, DOGE, ETH, AVAX, SOL, BNB, LINK

2. Liquidity

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Spreads compressed: BTC at 0.1bps and ETH at 0.6bps both rank in the bottom decile of 90-day prints, execution costs at the cheapest level of the window.
Depth peaked: BTC 50bp depth at $899M and ETH at $1.25B both at 90-day highs, providing absorptive capacity for institutional-size flow.
Bid-side tilt: BTC bid depth at 58.4% and ETH at 62.4% both above the 75th percentile, the orderbook leaning toward buyers across tiers.

Spreads compressed to 0.1bps for BTC and 0.6bps for ETH, both ranking near 90-day lows. 50bps depth at $899M for BTC and $1.25B for ETH both sit in the 90-day high zone, the deepest book of the window. Bid-side imbalance at 58.4% for BTC and 62.4% for ETH confirms persistent buying pressure across tiers. Depth concentration in the top 10bps stays elevated, leaving liquidity thinner above the tier.

Orderbook depth snapshot BTC ETH and SOL

CHARTS

DETAIL TABLES

BID/ASK Imbalance BTC ETH SOL Per Venue depth and spread BTC, ETH, SOL

3. Rates

KEY TAKEAWAYS

BTC funding inverted: -4.5% APR with 18 consecutive negative sessions, ranking 17th percentile, shorts paying longs through the entire window.
ETH/SOL constructive: ETH at +5.5% APR (93rd) and SOL at +4.4% (89th) show carry costs running positive while BTC pays the opposite side.
Term structure: BTC term spread at 4.2bps at the 90-day high, paired with basis at 0.1% (6th percentile), structure points to spot bid against muted futures premium.

BTC funding sits at -0.0041% (annualized -4.5%), printing 18 consecutive negative sessions and a 17th 90-day percentile read. ETH and SOL funding cleared the opposite way, at +5.5% and +4.4% APR respectively, both above the 75th percentile. BTC term spread at 4.2bps marks a 90-day high, while basis at 0.1% stays at the 6th percentile, a structure that signals spot demand without a futures premium response.

Funding rate snapshot Aave, avax, BNB, BTC, DOGE, ETH, LINK, SOL, UNI

CHARTS

funding rate heatmap funding APR and cumulative carry cost for BTC ETH and Sol
futures basis term structure 90 day futures term spread 90 day

DETAIL TABLES

basis term structure per venue funding rate BTC, ETH, SOL. Deribit, Bybit, Bitget, Binance, Hyperliquid

Market average funding

4. Positioning

KEY TAKEAWAYS

BTC L/S below parity: 0.97x sits in the 10th 90-day percentile, the perp tape leaning net short into a 93rd-percentile spot price.
Short side flushed: BTC short liquidations of $25.15M against $3.13M long liquidations, ETH shorts of $32.33M against $3.52M longs.
Open interest elevated: BTC OI at $27.78B (88th percentile) and ETH at $16.00B (80th), notional leverage in the system has not unwound despite forced cover.

BTC long/short ratio at 0.97x sits in the 10th 90-day percentile, the perp book net short while spot prints near range highs. Short liquidations dominated: $25.15M for BTC and $32.33M for ETH against long liquidations of $3.13M and $3.52M, the cover-side asymmetry confirming the squeeze direction. Open interest stayed firm at $27.78B for BTC (88th), and $16.00B for ETH (80th); system leverage has not unwound.

OI and positioning snapshot. Aave, AVAX, BNB, BTC, DOGE, ETH, LINK, SOL

CHARTS

Open interest and leverage ratio BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB Long/short ratio 90 day btc eth and sol

DETAIL TABLES

Long/short ratio snapshot for major altcoins

Per Venue open interest for BNB. BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP

5. ETF Flows

KEY TAKEAWAYS

BTC streak builds: 5 consecutive sessions of net inflows totaling $556.1M, AUM at $112.3B in the 90-day high zone, holdings at 7.1% of circulating supply.
ETH ETF divergence: 7-day net outflow of $242.9M and AUM at $4.3B in the 22nd percentile, opposite direction to BTC despite a 2-session positive streak.
Structural ownership: ETF holdings at 7.1% of BTC supply against 1.5% for ETH, the institutional-cohort tilt within crypto remains anchored to BTC.

BTC spot ETFs printed a 5-session inflow streak with $556.1M booked over the week, AUM rising to $112.3B and holdings sitting at 7.1% of circulating supply. ETH ETF flows split: a 2-session positive streak ran against a 7-day net outflow of $242.9M and AUM at $4.3B in the 22nd percentile. Issuer breakdown shows BTC inflow concentration unbroken, with no signs of a relative ETH preference reversal forming.

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CHARTS

BTC ETF AUM and Daily Flows 90 Day ETH ETF AUM and Daily Flows 90 Day

DETAIL TABLES

ETF issuer breakdown

6. Stablecoin

KEY TAKEAWAYS

USDT expansion regime: $187M net minted over the week, mint/burn ratio at 2.25x in the 90-day high zone, dominance at 68.2% sets a new 90-day high.
USDe contraction: $1.8B redeemed over the week, mint/burn ratio collapses to 0.03x at the 90-day low, DeFi yield-product unwind in motion.
USDC outflow: $201M net burned over the week, supply at $67.7B holding at 24.7% dominance, transactional throughput recovering through redemption rather than expansion.

Aggregate stablecoin signal turns mixed. USDT added $187M over the week with mint/burn at 2.25x (90-day high) and dominance lifting to 68.2%, a fresh 90-day high. USDe redeemed $1.8B with mint/burn collapsing to 0.03x (90-day low). USDC burned $201M, PYUSD burned $677M, while USDS minted $339.7M. Stablecoin liquidity is rotating toward USDT rather than expanding in aggregate, an internal reshuffling rather than fresh capital.

Stablecoin snapshot USDT, USDC, USDS, USDe, PYUSD, RLUSD

CHARTS

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DETAIL TABLES

stablecoin breakdown

7. DeFi Lending

KEY TAKEAWAYS

TVL contracts: Aggregate at $30.16B sits at the 90-day low, aavev3 TVL drained to $22.85B with utilization rising to 45.3% in the 90-day high zone.
Borrow rates split: aavev3 at 5.5% APR (97th percentile), compoundv3 at 722.3% (90-day high outlier), makerdao at 0.5%, dispersion is wide and venue-specific.
Liquidation pressure low: Aggregate at $1.25M for the day in the bottom decile, collateral health holds despite TVL contraction, lending stress concentrated in rates not solvency.

Aggregate DeFi TVL fell to $30.16B at the 90-day low. aavev3 dominates at $22.85B with utilization rising to 45.3% (90-day high zone) and borrow APR at 5.5% in the 97th percentile. compoundv3 prints 722.3% borrow APR, an outlier reading on a thin lending pool. Makerdao TVL holds at $5.42B. Liquidations stayed low at $1.25M in aggregate, ETH base staking APY at 2.9% in the 82nd percentile.

DeFi protocol snapshot. AAVE v3 compound v2 MakerDAO

CHARTS

ETH liquid staking APY and borrow spread 30 day

DETAIL TABLES

DeFi chains ETH liquid Staking APY

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