- A $3.79M whale liquidation triggered ACT’s 50% crash after Binance adjusted margin tiers, sparking broader low-cap token declines.
- Market makers like Wintermute may have played a role, as ACT sales led to forced liquidations and spillover sell-offs in other tokens.
- Once a Solana AI memecoin sensation, ACT has lost over 85% of its market cap, now trading at $0.060046 with weak market support.
Binance recently adjusted leverage and margin tiers for multiple tokens, including ACT. A whale liquidation of $3.79 million at $0.1877 followed. Consequently, ACT plunged over 50%. Several altcoins on Binance crashed, despite broader market stability. Tokens like DeXe (DEXE), dForce (DF), KAVA, HIPPO, BANANAS31, LUMIA, TST, and QUICK fell sharply within minutes.
Possible Causes Behind ACT’s Sharp Decline
ACT’s price decline may be linked to Binance’s margin adjustments. However, other tokens affected by these changes did not experience similar crashes. This inconsistency has sparked speculation about the real cause of the sudden drop.
Some traders suspect the new ACT perpetual contract’s margin requirements triggered an unexpected squeeze on a market maker’s positions. If true, the automated trading bot might have liquidated other tokens to hedge losses. Additionally, Arkham data suggests that Wintermute, a known market maker, sold a substantial volume of ACT tokens on April 1.
Binance’s Response and Market Impact
Binance later attributed the sell-off to spot market sales from four accounts. Three VIP users sold around 514 million USDT worth of ACT, while a non-VIP user offloaded 540,000 USDT of ACT after making a deposit. As a result, these sales led to forced liquidations in ACT futures, cascading into declines in other low-cap tokens.
ACT played a crucial role in last year’s AI memecoin craze on Solana. It merged artificial intelligence hype with memecoin speculation, drawing significant interest. At its peak, ACT’s market capitalization exceeded $890 million. However, it has since collapsed by over 85%, currently hovering around $95 million. As of writing, ACT trades at $0.060046, down 24.49% in the past 24 hours. The token’s 24-hour trading volume stands at $1,567,506.
