Crypto liquidations, Tuesday, September 29, 2026

$221.7M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 9 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$221.7M

events

52,844

longs wiped

$147.7M

shorts wiped

$74.0M

long 67%short 33%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$43.4M

$21.7M

$43.4M

S peak 11:00 · $13.8M

L peak 01:00 · $43.4M

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 2026-09-29

52,844 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $221.7M. Liquidations were two-sided (67% long / 33% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

ETH bore the brunt: $47.8M across 2,069 events , 22% of the day's total. BTC followed with $38.5M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long ETH-USDT position worth $5.1M on htx at 07:39 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, bybit, okx, htx, bitget, 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.