History/2026-10-11

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Crypto liquidations, Sunday, October 11, 2026

$161.2M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 9 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)
$161.2M
events
55,463
longs wiped
$56.2M
shorts wiped
$105.0M
long 35%short 65%

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 2026-10-11

55,463 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $161.2M. Liquidations were two-sided (35% long / 65% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $40.9M across 1,787 events , 25% of the day's total. ETH followed with $30.9M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short BTC-USD position worth $4.9M on hyperliquid at 17:36 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, hyperliquid, bitget, gate, htx, aster, bitfinex. 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, 2026-10-11

1BTC1,787 events$40.9M
2ETH1,481 events$30.9M
3STRK9,556 events$13.0M
4NEAR1,795 events$9.0M
5SOL864 events$8.5M
6ZEC1,099 events$6.2M
7MAGIC3,424 events$2.9M
8QUANT21 events$2.8M
9S2,429 events$2.7M
10TIA1,184 events$2.3M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-10-11

SHORTBTC-USDhyperliquid17:36 UTC$4.9M
SHORTETHUSDTbinance16:28 UTC$1.9M
SHORTBTC-USDhyperliquid15:58 UTC$1.4M
SHORTBTC-USDhyperliquid17:36 UTC$1.2M
LONGQUANT-USDT-SWAPokx05:13 UTC$1.2M

By exchange, 2026-10-11