Crypto liquidations, Wednesday, October 7, 2026

$684.8M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)

$684.8M

events

103,698

longs wiped

$622.9M

shorts wiped

$61.9M

long 91%short 9%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$282.1M

$141.1M

$282.1M

S peak 02:00 · $9.2M

L peak 02:00 · $282.1M

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 2026-10-07

103,698 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $684.8M. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 91% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

ETH bore the brunt: $222.1M across 6,109 events , 32% of the day's total. BTC followed with $177.3M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long ETHUSDC position worth $26.6M on binance at 02:01 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, hyperliquid, bybit, okx, bitget, htx, gate, 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.