Crypto liquidations, Wednesday, September 30, 2026

$266.5M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$266.5M

events

54,809

longs wiped

$146.7M

shorts wiped

$119.8M

long 55%short 45%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$69.0M

$34.5M

$69.0M

S peak 12:00 · $69.0M

L peak 17:00 · $48.0M

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 2026-09-30

54,809 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $266.5M. Liquidations were two-sided (55% long / 45% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $116.0M across 3,417 events , 44% of the day's total. ETH followed with $46.6M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTC_USDT position worth $15.8M on gate at 17:37 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, gate, bybit, hyperliquid, okx, htx, bitget, lighter, aster, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.