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Crypto Bounces Back From Record Wipeout on Easing Trade Fears

Posted by Bill Rippel on October 13, 2025 - 4:20am


Crypto Bounces Back From Record Wipeout on Easing Trade Fears

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Most major cryptocurrencies rebounded from steep losses suffered over a brutal weekend selloff, as US President Donald Trump sought to quell concerns over its trading relationship with China.

Bitcoin was trading above $115,000 on Monday morning in Singapore, after sliding below $105,000 on Friday in the US. Smaller tokens also regained some ground, with Ether back to about $4,200 after falling to less than $3,500.

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The gains coincided with Sunday statements from Trump and Vice President JD Vance signaling openness to a deal with China that eased trade tensions. A record $19 billion in crypto bets were erased and crypto prices tumbled after severe new China tariffs announced by Trump on Friday. Leverage, automatically triggered sales and low liquidity at odd hours for global trading compounded losses for traders.

“The rebound is driven by a conciliatory message from Trump,” said Richard Galvin, co-founder of hedge fund DACM. Most so-called altcoins — shorthand for smaller tokens — are still trading well below where they were on October 9, Galvin added. “Looking forward, headline risk, like throughout 2025, remains high and the market is exposed to any further trade escalation pronouncements or any other left-tail risks.”

The selloff’s impact was wide-ranging. Ethena USDe, the third-largest stablecoin, briefly lost its dollar peg. Binance, the biggest digital-assets exchange, experienced technical glitches. More than 1.6 million traders were liquidated, according to data tracker Coinglass.

Executives head into the week wondering who bore the brunt of the losses. So far, they haven’t uncovered any evidence of a blowup — a nagging fear in crypto markets after previous collapses, such as that of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, sparked daisy-chains of failures.

Funding rates — the interest paid by bullish traders to take on leverage for futures bets — have plunged to their lowest levels since around the time of FTX’s implosion in 2022, among “the most severe leverage resets in crypto history,” Coinglass said in a research note. That reset in options markets will “place a surer footing under pricing over the medium term,” Galvin said.

Bitcoin reached a record of $126,251 as recently as October 6, and remains up 23% for the year, fueled in large part by Trump’s pro-crypto policies in the US.

Simon Keighley It’s good to see a bounce back, but that leverage reset and headline risk suggest we aren\'t out of the woods yet.
October 13, 2025 at 5:09am