Revolut BTC Price Glitch: What Traders Must Know

Revolut, the European neobank serving millions of retail crypto users, displayed Bitcoin at $0.019 for roughly five minutes on Thursday morning — a 99.99% deviation from its actual market price near $79,000. The erroneous feed was live between approximately 07:45 and 07:50 GMT+1, with push notifications amplifying the confusion before the issue was corrected.

Revolut confirmed to Decrypt that a third-party data provider was responsible for the pricing failure. The firm stated the issue has since been resolved and that pricing now reflects live market conditions, though an internal review of the disruption is still underway.

Critically, no major exchange or price aggregator — including CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, or Coinbase — registered any anomaly during the same window. Bitcoin's actual spot market was entirely unaffected.

How Does This Affect BTC Perpetual Markets?

For derivatives traders, the incident itself carries no fundamental weight — it was a data pipeline failure, not a market event. However, the episode is a useful reminder of how third-party pricing feeds can, in theory, cascade into automated systems. Retail platforms that pipe external price data into stop-loss triggers or liquidation engines without redundancy checks create tail-risk exposure that is easy to underestimate.

In this case, the glitch was contained to Revolut's front-end display. But in a scenario where a corrupted feed reached a venue with active order routing, the consequences could extend well beyond a social media moment. Traders running automated strategies that rely on third-party price oracles — particularly in DeFi — should treat this as a stress-test reminder.

Revolut's 24-hour charts for Ethereum and XRP also showed sharp apparent drawdowns during the same incident window, though neither approached the near-zero distortion seen in Bitcoin's display.

What Blackperp's Engine Shows

Independently of the Revolut glitch, Blackperp's live engine is flagging meaningful directional pressure across BTC and ETH perpetual markets.

On BTCUSDT, the engine holds a short bias with 36% confidence in a ranging regime. Signal momentum is fully bearish — 100% directional agreement — and a breakout entry signal is active at 80% confidence, flagging consolidation breakdown with elevated ask-side pressure. Taker aggression has hit a hyper-aggressive reading of 100 with a net delta of -7.75, indicating aggressive sell-side flow. This is not noise — it's coordinated selling pressure in the tape.

On ETHUSDT, the picture is sharper. The engine registers a strong short bias, again at 36% confidence, with 100% bearish signal consensus across all indicators. ETH is underperforming BTC by -5.726x on relative strength over the past hour, with a 1h move of -0.131%. Taker aggression mirrors BTC at 100 with a net of -5.67 — ETH is a laggard in a risk-off tape, which typically means it absorbs a disproportionate share of liquidation pressure when BTC softens.

XRPUSDT is holding neutral at 46% confidence in a low-volatility ranging regime. Position consensus shows two bullish signals against zero bearish, but taker aggression remains net negative at -0.46. The Nasdaq 100 reading of $706.27 (+1.63%) provides a mild macro tailwind, though it hasn't translated into meaningful upside flow for XRP yet.

NEARUSDT is similarly neutral, with mixed signals: multi-timeframe trend alignment is fully bullish across the 1m, 5m, and 1h, but the confidence ensemble leans bearish. Traders should treat NEAR as a low-conviction setup until the regime resolves.

The broader picture from the engine: BTC and ETH are under active sell-side pressure in ranging conditions. Funding rates and open interest should be monitored closely — if selling continues without a volatility expansion, funding could flip negative, creating short-squeeze risk for overcrowded positions.