Empire LIVE | Market Crash: What Happened and What’s Next
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Oct 12, 2025 
Doug Colkitt, a crypto market analyst with extensive knowledge in liquidation mechanics, joins to dissect the recent crypto market crash. He explains how leverage buildup and delta-neutral strategies led to record liquidations, and discusses the role of auto-deleveraging (ADL) in managing risk. Doug highlights the differences in insurance funds across platforms and dives into the complex dynamics of market liquidity during stress. Listeners gain insights into the factors that influenced this chaos and what builders can learn from the event.
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How ADL Actually Works
- ADL both forces positions out and socializes losses when markets exhaust counterparties.
- Exchanges rank and remove the most profitable or most leveraged accounts to rebalance seats in the market.
Expect ADL Prioritization Rules
- Expect ADL to prioritize the most profitable and most leveraged accounts.
- Monitor your ADL ranking and consider disclosure clauses or negotiated protections if you can.
Hyperliquid Followed Docs, Users Felt Burned
- Hyperliquid followed its documented ADL rules and was transparent about mechanisms during the events.
- The absence of an insurance fund and optics of HLP gains left many users unhappy despite documented behavior.