Crypto liquidations, Saturday, October 3, 2026

$87.9M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$87.9M

events

41,123

longs wiped

$35.4M

shorts wiped

$52.5M

long 40%short 60%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$7.7M

$3.9M

$7.7M

S peak 00:00 · $7.7M

L peak 09:00 · $4.4M

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 2026-10-03

41,123 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $87.9M. Liquidations were two-sided (40% long / 60% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

QUANT bore the brunt: $28.0M across 184 events , 32% of the day's total. SAND followed with $10.8M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short QUANT-USDT-SWAP position worth $3.3M on okx at 07:09 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: okx, binance, bybit, gate, hyperliquid, 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.