What CoinGraph said about ethereum-classic, exactly as issued.

{
  "id": "1866",
  "token": {
    "id": "ethereum-classic"
  },
  "headline": "ETC -1.4% to $7.71 in a late selloff; thin Binance volume, $27K longs liquidated",
  "brief": {
    "caveats": [
      "Absolute volumes are tiny ($139K/hour on Binance spot, $27K liquidations), so the 2.6× volume ratio says little about real conviction.",
      "The E1 window low is $7.76, but the 21:37 price of $7.71 was recorded after the window ended, so the figures overlap imperfectly.",
      "Most Binance positioning fields (global long/short, taker buy/sell) were empty.",
      "There is no ETC-chain onchain, exchange-flow or news data, so the cause of the move cannot be confirmed."
    ],
    "onchain": [
      {
        "text": "There is no ETC-chain onchain data in this evidence. The only chain data is Ethereum mainnet gas: base fee 0.07 gwei against a 0.06 24h average, blocks 56% full. That says nothing about ETC flows.",
        "evidence": [
          "E7"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "summary": "ETC traded flat between $7.82 and $7.86 for most of the window. Between about 21:26 and 21:32 UTC it fell to about $7.71, ending the window down 1.41%. That is a bit worse than BTC (-0.52%) and ETH (-1.15%) while the wider market was also weak. Volume rose and some leverage came off during the drop, but the dollar amounts were small, and no ETC-specific catalyst appears in the evidence.",
    "headline": "ETC -1.4% to $7.71 in a late selloff; thin Binance volume, $27K longs liquidated",
    "severity": 1,
    "direction": "bearish",
    "confidence": 0.55,
    "watch_next": [
      "Whether ETC holds about $7.70 or keeps falling while the 7-day trend is -8.4%",
      "Whether Binance volume and open interest keep dropping together (more long unwinding) or OI starts rebuilding",
      "Whether funding moves away from 0.01%",
      "BTC and ETH direction: further market weakness would likely hit ETC harder",
      "More long liquidations if price breaks below the $7.71 level reached after the window"
    ],
    "likely_causes": [
      {
        "cause": "A small sell burst in thin liquidity. Selling concentrated in a few minutes after 21:26 pushed price down because order books were shallow, not because of a large flow.",
        "evidence": [
          "E2",
          "E1"
        ],
        "confidence": 0.5
      },
      {
        "cause": "Weakness across the market. BTC, ETH and total market cap were all down, and ETC tends to fall further than the majors when they drop.",
        "evidence": [
          "E8",
          "E9"
        ],
        "confidence": 0.45
      },
      {
        "cause": "Minor deleveraging of longs. Open interest fell 1.43% in 1h and $27K of longs were liquidated, so this added to the drop but was too small to drive it.",
        "evidence": [
          "E3",
          "E6"
        ],
        "confidence": 0.35
      },
      {
        "cause": "No ETC-specific catalyst (news, onchain flows, protocol event) appears in the evidence, so the exact trigger is unexplained.",
        "evidence": [
          "E10"
        ],
        "confidence": 0.6
      }
    ],
    "what_happened": [
      {
        "text": "In 15-minute data, ETC held between $7.82 and $7.86 from 19:30 to 21:15 UTC, then fell to $7.76 by 21:30. CoinGecko showed $7.71 at 21:37, -1.41% over the window, -1.53% over 1h, -2.47% over 24h and -8.43% over 7 days.",
        "evidence": [
          "E1"
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "CoinGraph price-move signals fired at 21:29 (1h return -1.02%, z 2.73) and at 21:36 (1h return -1.66%, 15m return -1.78%, z 4.33). Compared with ETC's usual volatility, this was a sharp move for its size.",
        "evidence": [
          "E11"
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "Binance ETC/USDT spot traded $139.1K in the last hour, 2.6× a typical hour ($52.9K). The busiest minutes were all between 21:26 and 21:32, and most of them closed lower: 21:29 traded $28.2K at -0.39% and 21:27 traded $22.6K at -0.13%.",
        "evidence": [
          "E2"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "market_context": [
      {
        "text": "Over the same window BTC fell 0.52% and ETH 1.15%, and total crypto market cap is down 2.97% over 24h. ETC underperformed slightly. It was not trending.",
        "evidence": [
          "E8"
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "Derivatives look balanced. Funding is 0.01% per 8h on Binance, Bybit and OKX (the normal level). Binance open interest is $19.8M, -1.43% over 1h and -0.35% over 4h. 11 liquidations totalled $27K, all longs, the largest $12.1K. The Binance top-account long/short ratio is 1.77; the other positioning fields came back empty.",
        "evidence": [
          "E3",
          "E4",
          "E5",
          "E6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "The Fear & Greed index is at 55 (Greed), down from 64 a week ago, so sentiment is cooling. CoinGecko shows 0% positive sentiment votes for ETC.",
        "evidence": [
          "E9",
          "E10"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "evidence": {
    "name": "Ethereum Classic",
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "E1",
        "data": {
          "ath": 167.09,
          "low": 7.76,
          "high": 7.86,
          "rank": 70,
          "as_of": "2026-10-17T21:37:00.000Z",
          "price": 7.71,
          "path_15m": [
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T19:30:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.82
            },
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T19:45:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.82
            },
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T20:00:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.85
            },
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T20:15:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.85
            },
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T20:30:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.83
            },
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T20:45:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.83
            },
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T21:00:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.85
            },
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T21:15:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.86
            },
            {
              "t": "2026-10-17T21:30:00.000Z",
              "price": 7.76
            }
          ],
          "market_cap": 1223384096,
          "volume_24h": 36045890,
          "change_1h_pct": -1.5325670498084292,
          "change_7d_pct": -8.43230403800475,
          "change_24h_pct": -2.47013,
          "window_return_pct": -1.41
        },
        "kind": "price",
        "source": "coingecko:/coins/markets",
        "summary": "ETC $7.7 now; -1.41% over the window (high $7.9, low $7.8); 1h -1.53%, 24h -2.47%, 7d -8.43%; rank #70, market cap $1.2B, 24h volume $36M"
      },
      {
        "id": "E2",
        "data": {
          "ratio": 2.627464636813146,
          "venue": "binance",
          "symbol": "ETC/USDT",
          "volume_1h_usd": 139123.5657,
          "busiest_minutes": [
            {
              "v": "28170.2019",
              "ts": "2026-10-17T21:29:00.000Z",
              "ret": "-0.387",
              "close": "7.73"
            },
            {
              "v": "22632.1526",
              "ts": "2026-10-17T21:27:00.000Z",
              "ret": "-0.129",
              "close": "7.76"
            },
            {
              "v": "20512.0195",
              "ts": "2026-10-17T21:30:00.000Z",
              "ret": "0.389",
              "close": "7.75"
            },
            {
              "v": "18340.0658",
              "ts": "2026-10-17T21:32:00.000Z",
              "ret": "0.000",
              "close": "7.72"
            },
            {
              "v": "11258.1964",
              "ts": "2026-10-17T21:26:00.000Z",
              "ret": "-0.128",
              "close": "7.78"
            }
          ],
          "volume_window_usd": 143604.1177,
          "median_hourly_24h_usd": 52949.7386
        },
        "kind": "spot_volume",
        "source": "binance:klines:1m",
        "summary": "binance ETC/USDT: $139.1K traded in the last hour vs a typical hour of $52.9K (2.6×); busiest minutes: 21:29 $28.2K (-0.387%), 21:27 $22.6K (-0.129%), 21:30 $20.5K (+0.389%), 21:32 $18.3K (0%), 21:26 $11.3K (-0.128%)"
      },
      {
        "id": "E3",
        "data": {
          "as_of": "2026-10-17T21:30:00.000Z",
          "change_1h_pct": -1.43,
          "change_4h_pct": -0.35,
          "open_interest_usd": 19766025.10179
        },
        "kind": "open_interest",
        "source": "binanceusdm:openInterestHist:5m",
        "summary": "Binance futures open interest $19.8M: -1.43% vs 1h ago, -0.35% vs 4h ago"
      },
      {
        "id": "E4",
        "data": {
          "rates": [
            {
              "venue": "binanceusdm",
              "symbol": "ETC/USDT:USDT",
              "funding_rate_pct": 0.01
            },
            {
              "venue": "bybit",
              "symbol": "ETC/USDT:USDT",
              "funding_rate_pct": 0.01
            },
            {
              "venue": "okx",
              "symbol": "ETC/USDT:USDT",
              "funding_rate_pct": 0.01
            }
          ]
        },
        "kind": "funding",
        "source": "ccxt:fetchFundingRates",
        "summary": "Funding per 8h: binanceusdm 0.0100%, bybit 0.0100%, okx 0.0100% (positive = longs pay; ~0.01% is normal)"
      },
      {
        "id": "E5",
        "data": {
          "as_of": "2026-10-17T21:35:00.000Z",
          "taker_buy_sell": null,
          "global_long_short": null,
          "top_account_long_short": 1.7693,
          "top_position_long_short": null
        },
        "kind": "positioning",
        "source": "binanceusdm:futuresSentiment:5m",
        "summary": "Binance positioning: all accounts long/short undefined, top traders by position undefined, taker buy/sell undefined (>1 = net buying)"
      },
      {
        "id": "E6",
        "data": {
          "count": 11,
          "longs_usd": 27003.3528,
          "total_usd": 27003.3528,
          "shorts_usd": 0,
          "largest_usd": 12052.884100000001
        },
        "kind": "liquidations",
        "source": "okx+binance:liquidations",
        "summary": "11 forced liquidations worth $27K in the window: $27K longs, $0 shorts; largest $12.1K"
      },
      {
        "id": "E7",
        "data": {
          "as_of": "2026-10-17T21:32:00.000Z",
          "chain": "eth",
          "base_fee_gwei": 0.06532291353333333,
          "gas_used_ratio": 0.5582802178036255,
          "avg_base_fee_24h_gwei": 0.06184458348666667,
          "priority_fee_p50_gwei": 0.1882396755066667
        },
        "kind": "network_fees",
        "source": "nownodes:eth:eth_feeHistory",
        "summary": "ETH base fee 0.07 gwei (24h average 0.06), blocks 56% full"
      },
      {
        "id": "E8",
        "data": {
          "trending": false,
          "categories": [
            "Smart Contract Platform",
            "Layer 1 (L1)",
            "Proof of Work (PoW)",
            "Coinbase 50 Index"
          ],
          "btc_change_24h_pct": -0.74135,
          "btc_window_return_pct": -0.52,
          "eth_window_return_pct": -1.15,
          "global_market_cap_change_24h_pct": -2.96731501288777
        },
        "kind": "market_context",
        "source": "coingecko:/coins/markets+/global",
        "summary": "Market: BTC -0.52% and ETH -1.15% over the same window; total crypto market cap -2.97% in 24h; categories: Smart Contract Platform, Layer 1 (L1), Proof of Work (PoW), Coinbase 50 Index"
      },
      {
        "id": "E9",
        "data": {
          "day": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
          "value": 55,
          "week_ago": 64,
          "classification": "Greed"
        },
        "kind": "market_mood",
        "source": "alternative.me:/fng",
        "summary": "Crypto Fear & Greed index 55 (Greed) today, 64 a week ago"
      },
      {
        "id": "E10",
        "data": {
          "as_of": "2026-10-17T00:00:39.584Z",
          "forks": null,
          "stars": null,
          "commits_4w": null,
          "prs_merged": null,
          "sentiment_up_pct": 0,
          "twitter_followers": null,
          "reddit_subscribers": null
        },
        "kind": "dev_and_community",
        "source": "coingecko:/coins/{id}",
        "summary": "developer activity: not tracked by CoinGecko for this coin; CoinGecko sentiment 0% positive (as of 2026-10-17)"
      },
      {
        "id": "E11",
        "data": {
          "signals": [
            {
              "id": "115585",
              "kind": "price_move",
              "ratio": 4.33,
              "value": -1.658,
              "details": {
                "z_1h": 4.33,
                "price": 7.71,
                "ret_1h_pct": -1.658,
                "ret_15m_pct": -1.783
              },
              "baseline": 0.386,
              "event_ts": "2026-10-17T21:36:00.000Z",
              "severity": 3,
              "direction": "down"
            },
            {
              "id": "115532",
              "kind": "price_move",
              "ratio": 2.73,
              "value": -1.022,
              "details": {
                "z_1h": 2.73,
                "price": 7.75,
                "ret_1h_pct": -1.022,
                "ret_15m_pct": -1.274
              },
              "baseline": 0.377,
              "event_ts": "2026-10-17T21:29:00.000Z",
              "severity": 2,
              "direction": "down"
            }
          ]
        },
        "kind": "signals",
        "source": "coingraph:signals",
        "summary": "Triggered by: price_move (down, high) at 21:36; price_move (down, medium) at 21:29"
      }
    ],
    "symbol": "ETC",
    "window_to": "2026-10-17T21:32:13.132Z",
    "gathered_at": "2026-10-17T21:37:57.616Z",
    "window_from": "2026-10-17T19:32:13.132Z",
    "coingecko_id": "ethereum-classic"
  },
  "model": "claude-opus-5-5"
}