Crypto liquidations, Thursday, October 22, 2026

$474.2M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)

$474.2M

events

92,399

longs wiped

$436.2M

shorts wiped

$38.0M

long 92%short 8%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$105.6M

$52.8M

$105.6M

S peak 13:00 · $7.1M

L peak 16:00 · $105.6M

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 2026-10-22

92,399 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $474.2M. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 92% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

BTC bore the brunt: $143.2M across 5,689 events , 30% of the day's total. ETH followed with $83.8M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTCUSDT position worth $11.8M on binance at 01:42 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, gate, bybit, bitget, htx, 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.