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Friday’s crypto sell-off was a fast, leverage-driven cascade that crushed altcoins while bitcoin held up comparatively better — and the next phase hinges on a handful of signals, according to Wiston Capital Founder Charlie Erith. In a Sunday post titled “Crypto Crumble,” Erith said the market excluding bitcoin, ether and stablecoins fell about 33% in roughly 25 minutes on Oct. 10 before bouncing to a loss of around 10.6%. He added that about $560 billion, or 13.1%, has been erased from total crypto market value since Oct. 6 and cited $18.7 billion in liquidations during the episode. He linked the immediate trigger to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social threat of an additional 100% tariff on Chinese imports, but argued the slide was already in motion — equities were still climbing while crypto “felt distinctly frail,” a divergence he took as advance warning. Bitcoin, he said, “behaved largely as expected.” It fell, but less than the long tail, leaving bitcoin near a long-running uptrend from late 2022 and boosting its market share as non-bitcoin tokens absorbed “immense technical damage.” Erith said his fund emerged “largely unscathed” because positioning had already been defensively tilted. What Erith is watching next Erith said he is tracking bitcoin’s 365-day exponential moving average as a line that separates bullish from corrective regimes. He added that a pullback toward the $100,000 area and a touch of that average would not, by itself, overturn his longer-term view provided the level holds — but a sustained break would raise the risk of a deeper reset. He also pointed to market breadth via bitcoin’s share of total crypto value. According to Erith, the sell-off accelerated a rotation toward higher-liquidity assets, lifting bitcoin dominance. He said a continued rise in that share alongside weak breadth would argue for caution in high-beta…

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