Crypto liquidations, Friday, October 2, 2026

$624.3M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$624.3M

events

100,319

longs wiped

$362.6M

shorts wiped

$261.7M

long 58%short 42%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$176.7M

$88.3M

$176.7M

S peak 04:00 · $114.0M

L peak 18:00 · $176.7M

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 2026-10-02

100,319 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $624.3M. Liquidations were two-sided (58% long / 42% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $196.4M across 7,537 events , 31% of the day's total. ETH followed with $112.4M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short BTCUSDT position worth $11.7M on binance at 04:20 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, bitget, gate, 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.