Crypto liquidations, Saturday, September 26, 2026

$116.5M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$116.5M

events

53,533

longs wiped

$63.7M

shorts wiped

$52.8M

long 55%short 45%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

Liquidated volume per hour, stacked by side. Hover a bar for exact values.

$26.7M

$13.4M

$26.7M

S peak 21:00 · $13.6M

L peak 20:00 · $26.7M

00:00 UTC06:00 UTC12:00 UTC18:00 UTC24:00 UTC

above line, short liquidations (forced buys) below line, long liquidations (forced sells)hover a bar for exact values

What happened on 2026-09-26

53,533 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $116.5M. Liquidations were two-sided (55% long / 45% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

XRP bore the brunt: $13.5M across 1,260 events , 12% of the day's total. ZEC followed with $10.5M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long XRP-USD position worth $3.2M on hyperliquid at 20:42 UTC.

Data on this page is not an estimate: every event was recorded from the exchange engines in real time on the day it happened. Coverage: binance, okx, bybit, hyperliquid, gate, bitget, aster, htx, lighter, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.