Crypto market observers are questioning the accuracy of widely reported liquidation figures, arguing that the commonly cited totals are likely understated because major centralized exchanges do not fully expose all forced-closure activity in their public data feeds. A K33 Research analyst, Vetle Lunde, said exchanges including Binance, Bybit, and OKX changed their liquidation reporting around mid-2021 in ways that can materially suppress the number of liquidations shown in real time, making current figures โ€œwildly underreported.โ€

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