Native token of leading crypto exchange OKX as cryptocurrency market struggles with sharp sell-off OCD The price dropped sharply. The price dropped over 50% in just five minutes.
While the OKB token price was traded at $52, it dropped sharply to $25 and approached the $46 level with a rapid recovery. While the price is still trading at a low price, investors are trying to find out the reason for the sharp decline.
It is also noteworthy that the decrease figures in the OKB pair are different from other data providers. While CoinMarketCap shows that prices dropped to $ 39.4, Coingecko data gives the lowest price as $ 45.
Lennix Lai, OKX’s Global Chief Commercial Officer, chose to downplay what happened at X, stating that it was “no big deal.” According to Lennix, OKX will continue to keep the community informed after reviewing the data.
Spot on Chain believes that the strange price movement may be linked to a group of OKB investments made into the platform recently. To be exact, ten previously dormant whales, likely belonging to a single organization, moved 176,154 tokens (worth $9.58 million) into OKX a week ago. Spot On Chain also believes that the latest flash crash is suspicious and may be linked to the activity of an unknown entity. explained.
🚨🚨 $OCD token suddenly fell sharply (40%) and our system marked ten dormant whales depositing 176,154 OKB ($9.58M) to OKX 7 days ago.
➡️ All 10 wallets received a total of 176,154 $OCD 4 years ago (20 Feb 2020) and had no action after that.
➡️ They deposited all tokens to OKX… pic.twitter.com/EQmiHOinmd— Spot On Chain (@spotonchain) January 23, 2024
According to the statement made by the stock exchange, the sharp decline led to the liquidation of many leveraged positions. While the stock market has committed to compensate for this unfortunate incident, developments are being followed. As we reported as Koinfinans.com, despite the last frightening event, the stock market did not experience any unexpected blood loss. The exchange’s reserves and users remain strong.
Source : The Crypto Basic