Crypto liquidations, Friday, October 23, 2026

$492.8M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$492.8M

events

161,302

longs wiped

$332.4M

shorts wiped

$160.4M

long 67%short 33%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$154.3M

$77.1M

$154.3M

S peak 19:00 · $52.1M

L peak 22:00 · $154.3M

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 2026-10-23

161,302 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $492.8M. Liquidations were two-sided (67% long / 33% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $89.2M across 4,502 events , 18% of the day's total. ETH followed with $66.3M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long ETHUSDT position worth $4.8M on binance at 22:47 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, gate, bitget, aster, lighter, htx, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.