History/2026-10-10

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Crypto liquidations, Saturday, October 10, 2026

$79.1M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 9 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)
$79.1M
events
48,854
longs wiped
$32.6M
shorts wiped
$46.6M
long 41%short 59%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

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 2026-10-10

48,854 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $79.1M. Liquidations were two-sided (41% long / 59% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

STRK bore the brunt: $9.5M across 6,287 events , 12% of the day's total. MAGIC followed with $8.9M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long QUANT-USDT-SWAP position worth $3.0M on okx at 16:22 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, bybit, gate, bitget, hyperliquid, aster, htx, lighter. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.

Most liquidated coins, 2026-10-10

1STRK6,287 events$9.5M
2MAGIC6,910 events$8.9M
3QUANT33 events$8.8M
4ETH716 events$5.5M
5NEAR1,202 events$4.4M
6BTC523 events$3.6M
7WLD745 events$1.8M
8US2,004 events$1.6M
9KAIA1,408 events$1.5M
10DOT213 events$1.4M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-10-10

LONGQUANT-USDT-SWAPokx16:22 UTC$3.0M
LONGQUANT-USDT-SWAPokx16:19 UTC$1.5M
SHORTQUANT-USDT-SWAPokx08:43 UTC$1.2M
LONGQUANT-USDT-SWAPokx18:17 UTC$894K
SHORTETHUSDTbinance14:18 UTC$793K

By exchange, 2026-10-10