Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, has soared previous the much-coveted $26,000 degree to the nice delight of bulls.   

Earlier at this time, it peaked at $26,553 on the Bitstamp trade. This marks a year-to-date excessive for the world’s largest cryptocurrency. 

Primarily based on information offered by the crypto analytics platform Coinglass, crypto bears have had a tough day with a big variety of liquidations over the previous 24 hours, totaling $314.24 million.

The vast majority of these liquidations have been on the quick facet, with 83.01% of the liquidations being quick positions.

Binance, the world’s largest trade by reported buying and selling volumes, had the very best variety of liquidations at $99.92 million, with 77.38% of these being shorts. OKX had the second-highest variety of liquidations at $76.98 million, with 89.62% of these being shorts.

The cryptocurrency’s resurgence comes as the USA is experiencing a banking disaster. The collapse of Silicon Valley Financial institution and the seizure of Signature Financial institution brought on widespread market panic about wider contagion.  

Bitcoin has been seen as a secure haven asset in instances of monetary turmoil, and the latest banking disaster has fueled its value surge.

The cryptocurrency is now altering fingers above the $26,000 mark for the primary time since July 2022.