Crypto liquidations, Thursday, October 8, 2026

$1.18B of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)

$1.18B

events

166,858

longs wiped

$1.05B

shorts wiped

$133.8M

long 89%short 11%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$442.7M

$221.3M

$442.7M

S peak 20:00 · $27.7M

L peak 15:00 · $442.7M

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 2026-10-08

166,858 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $1.18B. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 89% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

ETH bore the brunt: $323.8M across 9,196 events , 27% of the day's total. BTC followed with $285.1M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long ETH-USD position worth $20.0M on hyperliquid at 16:02 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, okx, bybit, 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.