Crypto liquidations, Monday, October 12, 2026

$518.3M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)

$518.3M

events

111,067

longs wiped

$435.1M

shorts wiped

$83.2M

long 84%short 16%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$103.0M

$51.5M

$103.0M

S peak 04:00 · $22.7M

L peak 23:00 · $103.0M

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 2026-10-12

111,067 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $518.3M. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 84% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

ETH bore the brunt: $110.5M across 4,816 events , 21% of the day's total. BTC followed with $106.6M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTCUSDT position worth $9.7M on binance at 23:06 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, hyperliquid, bybit, gate, bitget, aster, htx, lighter, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.