History/2026-10-13

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Crypto liquidations, Tuesday, October 13, 2026

$461.3M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)
$461.3M
events
97,927
longs wiped
$326.3M
shorts wiped
$135.0M
long 71%short 29%

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 2026-10-13

97,927 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $461.3M. Liquidations were two-sided (71% long / 29% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $101.6M across 4,378 events , 22% of the day's total. ETH followed with $82.3M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTCUSDT position worth $6.6M on binance at 00:05 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, bitget, gate, 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.

Most liquidated coins, 2026-10-13

1BTC4,378 events$101.6M
2ETH4,059 events$82.3M
3SOL2,848 events$35.7M
4QUANT142 events$24.7M
5ZEC2,082 events$11.6M
6HYPE841 events$11.1M
7SNDK1,335 events$11.1M
8XRP1,408 events$7.6M
9KORU731 events$6.8M
10NEAR1,545 events$5.9M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-10-13

LONGBTCUSDTbinance00:05 UTC$6.6M
SHORTETHUSDTaster02:57 UTC$5.1M
SHORTBTCUSDTbinance05:14 UTC$4.0M
LONGETH-USDhyperliquid00:52 UTC$3.9M
LONGBTCUSDCbinance00:05 UTC$3.7M

By exchange, 2026-10-13