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Ethereum Open Interest Rises While Price Pulls Back: Short Squeeze Setup?

Keshav Verma
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Last Updated: May 13, 2026 2:00 pm
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Data shows the Ethereum Open Interest has surged alongside the latest retrace in the asset’s price. Here’s what this could mean for the cryptocurrency.

Ethereum Open Interest Has Seen A Rise Recently

As highlighted by analyst Maartunn in an X post, the Ethereum Open Interest has just witnessed a surge. The “Open Interest” here refers to an indicator that measures the total amount of positions related to the cryptocurrency that are currently open on all centralized derivatives exchanges.

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When the value of the metric rises, it means the investors are opening fresh positions on the market. As new positions generally come with more leverage for the sector, this kind of trend can lead to more volatility.

On the other hand, the indicator observing a drop suggests holders are either getting liquidated or closing positions of their own volition. In either case, the resulting leverage washout can make the market behave in a more stable manner.

Now, here is the chart shared by Maartunn that shows the trend in the Ethereum Open Interest over the last couple of days:

Ethereum Open Interest
The value of the metric seems to have been climbing | Source: @JA_Maartun on X

As displayed in the above graph, the Ethereum Open Interest has witnessed a rise during the past day. This suggests that some new positions have appeared on the derivatives market. Interestingly, the development has arrived alongside a decline in the ETH spot price.

Some of these positions would correspond to bullish traders hoping to catch the bottom, while others would be bearish bets looking to ride the downward move. “That kind of setup usually means someone’s about to get liquidated,” noted Maartunn.

Naturally, if the asset reverses from here, the shorts that have piled up will get liquidated, providing further fuel for the move. But if the downtrend continues, longs could get punished instead. It now remains to be seen how the Ethereum price will develop in the coming days.

In some other news, on-chain analytics firm Santiment has shared updated rankings of Ethereum-based projects in terms of the Development Activity, a metric that captures the amount of work done by the developers of a given project on its public GitHub repositories.

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Below is the table shared by Santiment that shows how the top 10 projects that are partially or fully affiliated with the ETH ecosystem look right now.

Ethereum Projects Development Activity
Looks like MetaMask USD has topped the list | Source: Santiment on X

From the table, it’s visible that Ethereum’s native token ranks only third on 30-day Development Activity, with MetaMask USD (mUSD) and Chainlink (LINK) both ahead of the project. While ETH is relatively close to the latter, the former’s repository has been seeing a behemoth amount of work with its Development Activity far ahead of the rest.

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Ethereum neared the $2,400 level on Sunday, but the retrace since then has meant that its price is back below $2,300.

Ethereum Price Chart
The trend in the price of the coin over the last five days | Source: ETHUSDT on TradingView
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Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

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Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new.

As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money.

Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body.

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