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In this post

Table of Contents

  • Context of the October 10 Crash
  • A Look at the Situation
  • A Market Left to Itself
  • A Liquidity Problem
  • The Role of Market Makers
  • Timeline of Events
  • A Catalyst for the Crash
  • A Targeted Attack on Binance?
  • What Happened
  • Possible Explanations
  • The Wintermute Case
  • What Should We Take Away From This?
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Opinion: What really happened during the October 10 crypto crash

LALilian Aliaga

October 13, 2025

Opinion: What really happened during the October 10 crypto crash

In this post

Table of Contents

  • Context of the October 10 Crash
  • A Look at the Situation
  • A Market Left to Itself
  • A Liquidity Problem
  • The Role of Market Makers
  • Timeline of Events
  • A Catalyst for the Crash
  • A Targeted Attack on Binance?
  • What Happened
  • Possible Explanations
  • The Wintermute Case
  • What Should We Take Away From This?

A few hours after the historic October 10, 2025 crash, it’s time to take a first look at what really happened. Behind the convenient excuse of Donald Trump’s announcement lies a harsher truth. The market collapsed on its own: empty order books, vanished liquidity, and absent market makers. Was it a major systemic failure, a targeted attack on a specific actor, or a coordinated breakdown among market makers? Here’s our investigation.


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