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Bitcoin, Ethereum Each Slide More Than 5% in Sharp Crypto Sell-Off

6/18/2026

$BTC and $ETH both fell more than 5% in a sharp, broad-based sell-off, according to Pluang.

The decline struck the two largest crypto assets simultaneously — the kind of correlated move that tends to reflect market-wide selling pressure rather than anything specific to either protocol.

The Mechanics Behind the Drop When Bitcoin and Ethereum drop together and drop hard, the pattern points above the protocol layer.

Coordinated drawdowns across the two flagship tokens typically signal forced selling — margin calls unwinding, leveraged positions getting flushed, or macro-driven risk-off flows pulling capital out of digital assets as a category.

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