Revolut Bitcoin Glitch Sent BTC Alerts Near Zero

Multiple Assets Showed Abnormal Displays

Users also reported simultaneous apparent price drops across XRP, Solana, USDT, USDC and other tokens, indicating the disruption affected Revolut’s crypto display or pricing layer beyond Bitcoin alone.

Revolut Support told users during the disruption that the company was “currently experiencing technical issues affecting some crypto functionalities.” Another support message said engineers were working on a fix and urged customers to monitor the company’s status page for updates.

No confirmed user reports showed orders being filled at the displayed glitch price. Affected European and global users said balances and pending orders were not affected, limiting the incident to inaccurate displayed pricing rather than confirmed executable trades at the faulty level.

Experts Pointed to Pricing Infrastructure Risk

Ranveer Arora, ex-PwC quantitative trading lead and co-founder of Altura.trade, said one explanation was “a data feed error,” describing the possibility of “a corrupt tick pushed through Revolut's pricing system” that briefly anchored the one-day BTC chart near $39,900 before correction.

Arora also said a second possible mechanism was a transient liquidity gap in a thin order book environment, noting that “Revolut operates with limited liquidity depth compared to a full exchange,” but he added that the absence of matching prints across other venues made a data error more likely.

Marc Tillement, director of blockchain price oracle Pyth Data Association, said the episode showed how fragile price perception can become in fragmented data environments, where “a single bad print can distort the perception of price very quickly,” especially inside retail-facing systems.

Tillement added that as markets become more continuous and data-driven, the reliability and provenance of pricing infrastructure become central to market trust because participants depend on transparent, verifiable data layers to avoid distorted signals.

The malfunction occurred during a softer Bitcoin trading session in which BTC nearly slipped below $80,000 after a modest correction that triggered almost $300 million in futures liquidations. The Revolut near-zero display was not reflected in actual market-wide Bitcoin pricing.

Revolut’s broader crypto footprint remains significant, with the fintech reported as holding a MiCA license through Cyprus, serving more than 68 million customers across 40 markets, and continuing to expand crypto services including stablecoin settlement on Polygon.