DeFi blue-chips, including Aave (AAVE) and SushiSwap (SUSHI), have been rallying hard in the past several days while Bitcoin is seeing range-bound consolidation at around $35,000 as of Jan. 17.  Both AAVE and SUSHI prices have risen by more than three-fold since December, within merely a month.

Roughly $500 million worth of cryptocurrency futures positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours. The mass liquidation of positions happened before the price of Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below $34,000 on Jan. 17. Bitcoin total liquidations. Source: Bybt.com Why were so many positions liquidated? Overnight,