Charlie Quant Lab

Who actually has to sell?

The Unwind Ledger

A loss is not an unwind. A trigger is.

The eight checked futures markets carry $16.0bn of open positions, while five lending systems carry $20.9bn of loans. Those figures stay separate, and neither becomes a forced-sale total without position-level triggers.

Futures markets8kept in their own lane
Open futures bets$16.0bnnot a liquidation total
Most crowdedDOGE72.7% of accounts long
Futures price ladderWithheldincomplete positions never become zero
Lending systems5kept in their own lane
Borrowed on-chain$20.9bnnot all near liquidation
Public-company BTC1,293,205cost basis is not a trigger
Miner screen7share pressure is not forced selling

1. Leveraged futures

A borrowed futures position can be closed by the venue when its safety margin runs out. Open bets show the size of the lane. They do not reveal the price at which every trader breaks.

BTC$8.5bn
ETH$5.7bn
SOL$869.8mn
XRP$431.4mn
DOGE$255.7mn
LINK$120.2mn
ADA$85.4mn
AVAX$70.2mn

BTC carries the largest open position value in this eight-asset screen at $8.5bn. The exact forced-sale ladder is withheld because the wallet-level position set is incomplete.

Which side is leaning hardest?

This counts accounts, not dollars. It tells us where many traders agree, but a hundred small accounts can still be smaller than one large one.

DOGE72.7% long
XRP71.1% long
AVAX70.2% long
ETH69.4% long
ADA66.8% long
SOL66.1% long
LINK64.1% long
BTC51.3% long

DOGE is the most one-sided: 72.7% of accounts are long. Crowding can make a fall more fragile; it does not prove where forced selling begins.

2. On-chain loans

Borrowers can be sold when collateral falls far enough. Total borrowing shows the size exposed to loan rules. Without every account's safety margin, it cannot become a price ladder.

Aave V3$12.5bn
Morpho Blue$4.9bn
SparkLend$2.1bn
Kamino Lend$1.0bn
Venus Core Pool$439.7mn

The five checked systems have $20.9bn borrowed. Aave V3 is the largest. The account-level safety ladder is not published because the complete position set is missing.

3. Treasury companies

A company's Bitcoin purchase price is not a liquidation price. A forced sale needs a debt deadline, a broken loan rule, an asset promised to a lender or a cash bill the company cannot meet.

Strategy845,050 BTC
Twenty One Capital43,514 BTC
Metaplanet43,000 BTC
MARA Holdings35,303 BTC
Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company30,021 BTC
Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd25,723 BTC
Bullish23,300 BTC
Strive23,155 BTC
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.18,712 BTC
Coinbase Global16,492 BTC

Strategy holds 845,050 BTC, or 65.3% of the public-company total shown here. Concentration makes it important; it does not make the holding a forced sale.

4. Miners

A miner can lose money on production for a while. The forcing clock is usually cash, power bills, debt and access to funding—not the estimated cost of one coin.

IREN+20.5%
RIOT-3.2%
MARA-6.7%
WULF-10.6%
CLSK-12.6%
HUT-15.0%
CIFR-23.4%

CIFR has the weakest 30-session share move at -23.4%. That is market pressure, not proof that it must sell Bitcoin.

Do not add the four rows

Futures and on-chain loans can break at a price. Companies and miners often break at a date or contract condition. Adding them would mix different people, different clocks and overlapping Bitcoin.

Price-triggered

Futures and on-chain loans. Publish a ladder only when the underlying positions are complete.

Contract-triggered

Treasuries and miners. Publish a deadline only when the debt or cash obligation is documented.

Current verdict

No market-wide forced-sale total. The evidence supports pressure by lane, not one dramatic number.

Research by for Charlie Quant Lab