Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent bullish pause has cooled jets in the broader market, shaking out over-leveraged positions and normalizing costs associated with betting on price rallies. One token, however, is still blazing hot: Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium’s native cryptocurrency, RAY.

As the only coin with annualized perpetual funding rates still exceeding 160%, RAY stands out among the small, mid and large-cap tokens as the most overheated cryptocurrency, according to data from VeloData. The elevated rate suggests the market for RAY is overcrowded with long positions, with leverage skewed heavily toward the bullish side.

In such conditions, even a slight dip in price can shake the confidence of over-leveraged bulls, especially late entrants, triggering a mass unwinding of long positions, which often exacerbates the price decline, leading to a more pronounced sell-off. Tokens with a market capitalization of less than $5 billion, such as RAY, are particularly vulnerable to shenanigans in the derivatives market.

It’s easy to see why bulls ha

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Author: Omkar Godbole