Crypto liquidations, Monday, September 28, 2026

$425.2M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)

$425.2M

events

98,558

longs wiped

$341.7M

shorts wiped

$83.5M

long 80%short 20%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$64.6M

$32.3M

$64.6M

S peak 12:00 · $19.6M

L peak 05:00 · $64.6M

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 2026-09-28

98,558 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $425.2M. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 80% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

BTC bore the brunt: $100.1M across 4,986 events , 24% of the day's total. ETH followed with $61.2M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTCUSDT position worth $6.5M on binance at 05:23 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, hyperliquid, okx, gate, bybit, 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.