Crypto liquidations, Thursday, October 1, 2026

$246.2M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$246.2M

events

63,530

longs wiped

$142.1M

shorts wiped

$104.1M

long 58%short 42%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$28.4M

$14.2M

$28.4M

S peak 17:00 · $28.4M

L peak 07:00 · $17.6M

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 2026-10-01

63,530 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $246.2M. Liquidations were two-sided (58% long / 42% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

QUANT bore the brunt: $50.7M across 483 events , 21% of the day's total. BTC followed with $37.8M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long ZEC-USD position worth $3.1M on hyperliquid at 10:01 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, hyperliquid, bybit, 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.