This is probably the only theory that makes sense, since there hasn’t been much movement on-chain.

one working theory that i have is that a lot of this indiscriminate US-based selling is coming from multi-strat HFs that are delta-hedged or running some kind of RV/factor neutral trades that are widening, possibly with growth equity correlations spillovers-
the rough math is

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