Passive Absorption in Absorption (BTC) — July 10, 2026
A quantitative overview of cross-venue structural stability, liquidity trajectories, and intraday regime transitions.
1. Regime & Volatility Analysis
The market maintained a dominant Absorption regime (74811 state blocks), indicating sustained passive order flow, with minor shifts to Expansion (103 blocks) and Compression (153 blocks). Multiple Failed Expansion attempts across [Deribit BTC-PERPETUAL] and [OkxInverse BTC-USD] indicate price rejection, while Liquidation Cascades on [Bybit BTCUSDT] suggest aggressive long unwinding, contributing to the overall structural stability within the Absorption regime.| Venue/Instrument | Event Type | Time (UTC) | Confidence | Key Metric |---|---|---|---|---|| **[Deribit BTC-25SEP26]** | Passive Absorption | 10 minutes ago | 0.8000 | efficiency_ratio: 0.00 || **[Deribit BTC-PERPETUAL]** | Failed Expansion | 12 minutes ago | 0.8000 | duration_bars: 1.00 || **[OkxSpot BTC-USDT]** | Passive Absorption | 13 minutes ago | 0.8000 | vpin: 0.7559 || **[Hyperliquid BTC]** | Passive Absorption | 13 minutes ago | 0.8000 | vpin: 0.8573 || **[Deribit BTC-PERPETUAL]** | Momentum Exhaustion | 14 minutes ago | 0.7500 | efficiency_ratio: 0.2637 || **[OkxInverse BTC-USD]** | Failed Expansion | 14 minutes ago | 0.8000 | duration_bars: 1.00 || **[Bybit BTCUSDT]** | [Liquidation Cascade](https://thru.capital/ontology#liquidation-cascade) | 15 minutes ago | 0.7000 | oi_velocity: -34.61 || **[Bybit BTCPERP]** | [Momentum Exhaustion](https://thru.capital/ontology#momentum-exhaustion) | 19 minutes ago | 0.7500 | oi_velocity: -19.55 BPS |Aggregate implications: Recent activity shows [Deribit BTC-PERPETUAL] recorded a Failed Expansion 12 minutes ago, indicating rejection of upward price movement. This aligns with multiple other failed expansion attempts across [OkxInverse BTC-USD], suggesting persistent selling pressure at higher prices. Concurrently, new Passive Absorption signals across multiple venues, including [OkxSpot BTC-USDT] and [Hyperliquid BTC], indicate passive buying interest at current levels. Liquidation Cascades on [Bybit BTCUSDT] and Momentum Exhaustion on [Bybit BTCPERP] further confirm deleveraging and fading directional conviction.Verified Execution & Macro Proofs* (See Verified Execution below)* (See Verified Execution below)
## Verified Execution & Macro Proofs
• 420,000,000 USDT (220,000,000 USDT on Ethereum, 100,000,000 USDT on Ethereum, 100,000,000 USDT on Ethereum)
• 45.20 bps (Source Date: 2026-06-24)
Extract the raw multi-venue Parquet tick data for this epoch via thrunode_archive
It visualizes the structural behavior of Bitcoin across the industry's most important trading venues.
- Venues (Y): Specific markets from Spot to Perps.
- Time (X): 24-hour day broken into 48 discrete 30-minute segments.
- Teal Blocks: Absorption. Passive liquidity absorbing aggressive flow.
- Brightness: Bright = High Conviction. Faint = Transitional/Noisy.
- White Lines: Abrupt Structural Transitions.
- Grey Line (Hurst): Price persistence (High = trend, Low = noise).
2. Liquidation Risks & Funding Trajectories
[BybitInverse BTCUSD] recorded a -2.63 Z funding divergence, indicating aggressive short positioning and crowdedness. Concurrently, [Deribit BTC_USDC-PERPETUAL] showed Elevated leverage with +1.76 Z funding, and [Bybit BTCPERP] reached +1.65 Z funding, signaling aggressive long interest in other segments. This bifurcated crowdedness creates a vulnerability for short squeezes if passive absorption fails, or for long liquidations on [Deribit] and [Bybit] if price fails to sustain current levels due to high funding costs.Verified Execution & Macro Proofs* (See Verified Execution below) ## Verified Execution & Macro Proofs • baseline risk-free levels Extract the raw multi-venue Parquet tick data for this epoch via thrunode_archive
This chart is the Squeeze Radar, a specialized risk map for Bitcoin derivative markets. It visualizes the "tension" in the market by tracking where the most dangerous liquidation risks are building up across major exchanges.
The chart is divided into four sections based on two critical factors: Position Crowdedness (Vertical Axis) and Holding Cost (Horizontal Axis).
- The Red Zone (Top-Right - "Long Squeeze Danger"): This is the danger zone. Positions here have rising Open Interest (more people piling in) and high Funding Rates (buyers are paying a premium to stay long). If the price drops slightly, these "crowded longs" may be forced to sell all at once, causing a crash.
- The Green Zone (Bottom-Left - "Short Covering Exhaustion"): This is the "relief" zone. Positions here have falling Open Interest (shorts are closing) and negative Funding (sellers are paying buyers). This usually signals that a downward move is running out of steam.
- The Circles (Nodes): The solid circles represent where those exchanges ended the day.
- The Size of the Circle: The larger the circle, the more trading volume that exchange handled.
- The Dashed Trails (Trajectories): These "scribbles" are the most important part—they show the path each exchange took over the last 24 hours. Instead of just a single data point, you can see the "journey" of the market sentiment.
3. Passive Liquidity & CVD Divergences
The market exhibited widespread passive absorption, with bids absorbing aggressive selling across [Deribit] instruments, [OkxSpot BTC-USDT], and [Hyperliquid BTC]. This structural bid was evident in the high confidence of Passive Absorption events (210.8 confidence score), indicating significant resting liquidity. Despite the absorption, [BybitInverse BTCUSD] recorded a -2.63 Z funding divergence, suggesting strong short interest, while [OkxInverse BTC-USD] showed a +13.36 BPS OI velocity, indicating new capital entering short positions. Extract the raw multi-venue Parquet tick data for this epoch via thrunode_archive
This chart visualizes the true macroeconomic divergence between Global Spot and Derivative markets. By aggregating liquidity across all canonical exchanges, it acts as a highly sensitive gauge for systemic buying or selling pressure.
CVD tracks aggressive market orders (market buys minus market sells). We aggregate this across all canonical exchanges into two distinct curves:
- Spot CVD (The "Real" Demand): Tracks actual asset accumulation. When this rises, actual assets are being bought and removed from order books.
- Perp CVD (The Speculative Demand): Tracks derivative traders using leverage. Divergences (e.g., Perp CVD rising while Spot CVD drops) often signal fragile, easily-liquidated trends.
- Order Book Imbalance (Background): The background heatmap shows the structural weight of passive limit orders. Brighter colors indicate passive liquidity walls stepping in to absorb aggressive volume.
- Macro Events (Vertical Lines): We filter billions of daily ticks to cluster systemic structural events—like Global Liquidation Cascades or massive Block Trades—across multiple exchanges simultaneously.