History/2026-09-27

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Crypto liquidations, Sunday, September 27, 2026

$177.6M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)
$177.6M
events
75,634
longs wiped
$79.1M
shorts wiped
$98.6M
long 45%short 55%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

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 2026-09-27

75,634 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $177.6M. Liquidations were two-sided (45% long / 55% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

QNT bore the brunt: $28.6M across 14,874 events , 16% of the day's total. ETH followed with $23.2M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short XRP-USD position worth $3.3M on hyperliquid at 07:59 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, bybit, okx, gate, hyperliquid, bitget, htx, aster, lighter, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.

Most liquidated coins, 2026-09-27

1QNT14,874 events$28.6M
2ETH2,018 events$23.2M
3BTC2,071 events$20.7M
4SOL1,937 events$16.8M
5NEAR2,017 events$12.8M
6XRP1,115 events$8.7M
7ZEC1,720 events$6.5M
8WLD1,392 events$5.1M
9SUI1,473 events$5.0M
10Q3,051 events$3.6M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-09-27

SHORTXRP-USDhyperliquid07:59 UTC$3.3M
SHORTNEAR_USDTgate05:46 UTC$1.0M
SHORTSOL_USDTgate07:57 UTC$1.0M
LONGBTC-USDT-SWAPokx22:08 UTC$843K
LONGBTC-USDT-SWAPokx22:14 UTC$843K

By exchange, 2026-09-27