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Avalanche traders are pressing shorts into a market that keeps building margin against them. AVAX open interest has risen alongside a falling spot price, AMBCrypto reported early Friday, a combination that usually reads as bearish conviction but also plants the seed for a squeeze. Cryptomat's CryptoBeast score for AVAX sits at 58, a neutral read that masks how one-sided the positioning has become.
AVAX enters the last week of July with a tape that looks straightforward until you read the derivatives print. Price has drifted lower, and open interest has moved the other way. AMBCrypto flagged the divergence in a Friday note, framing it as bears tightening their grip while warning traders to keep a short squeeze on the risk sheet. That framing matters. Rising open interest into falling price means new positions are being opened, not old ones closed, and the marginal new position is a short. Cryptomat's composite CryptoBeast score for AVAX prints at 58, labeled neutral, but the components tell a more textured story: sentiment is pegged at 100 with a 0.35 weight, contributing 35 points on its own, while news volume comes in at just 15 and adds only 3.8.
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