"Contract Algorithmic Scythe: The Cause of Alpaca's Pre-Delisting Short Squeeze and the Consequence of Contract Paradox" (Author: @agintender) In April 2025, Binance announced the delisting of Alpaca Finance (ALPACA). The market formed a consensus of "inevitable zero," leading to a high concentration of short positions. Market makers exploited the low-market-cap spot to manipulate prices, using hourly funding rates of ±4% to create "financial torture," triggering cascading liquidations and a liquidation waterfall. ALPACA's price surged over 2,000% within 24 hours, then quickly collapsed due to the delisting. This incident reveals the structural fragility of low-liquidity perpetual markets: rules and game theory outweigh fundamentals. Read more: https://t.co/yqLtvyfyMN
Alpaca Finance Live Price data
Today's price of Alpaca Finance Is $ 0.00055 (ALPACA/USD). With A Market Cap Of $ 84,926.02 USD. 24-Hour Trading Volume Of $ 92,496.12 USD, A 24-Hour Price Change Of -1.75%, And A Circulating Supply Of 151.67M ALPACA.
Alpaca Finance ALPACA Price History USD
Track the price of Alpaca Finance for today, 7 days, 30 days and 90 days
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Change
Change (%)
Today
$ 0.0000099
-1.75%
7days
$ 0.0000099
1.82%
30days
$ 0.0012
-69.57%
90days
$ 0.0054
-90.67%
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Alpaca Finance Market Information
$ 0.00054 24h Range $ 0.00056
All time high
$ 0.0080
All time low
$ 0.00051
24h Change
-1.75%
24h Vol
$ 92,496.12
Circulating supply
151.66M
ALPACA
Market cap
$ 84,926.02
Max supply
188.00M
ALPACA
Fully diluted market cap
$ 105.27K
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Alpaca Finance X Insight
The tweet reveals how market makers exploited low-liquidity markets for a short squeeze before Alpaca Finance's delisting, warning of perpetual contract risks.
2025-08-24 13:48
Trend of ALPACA after release
Extremely Bearish
The tweet reveals how market makers exploited low-liquidity markets for a short squeeze before Alpaca Finance's delisting, warning of perpetual contract risks.
Alpaca coin currently has low market control and low holdings, suggesting a potential long opportunity.
This morning a friend said the Dragon King had been missing for a long time, and then immediately appeared 😂.
Still have to say, what a golden mouth. https://t.co/eYUCe6WhNn
Last time Alpaca was 20m, with high market control and high contract holdings, you wanted to short. This time, with a 20m market cap, low market control, and low contract holdings, you want to long.
Because Alpaca was eventually pulled up to 100m last time? Why could it be pulled up to 100m? Was it because you were shorting at the time? What about now?
2025-06-26 07:48
Trend of ALPACA after release
Bullish
Alpaca coin currently has low market control and low holdings, suggesting a potential long opportunity.
About Alpaca Finance
Alpaca Finance (ALPACA) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2021and operates on the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) platform. Alpaca Finance has a current supply of 151,668,641.60270965. The last known price of Alpaca Finance is 0.00056045 USD and is up 5.68 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 194 active market(s) with $92,062.02 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://www.alpacafinance.org/.
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