History/2026-10-26

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Crypto liquidations, Monday, October 26, 2026

$192.6M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)
$192.6M
events
68,908
longs wiped
$124.6M
shorts wiped
$68.0M
long 65%short 35%

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 2026-10-26

68,908 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $192.6M. Liquidations were two-sided (65% long / 35% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $47.9M across 3,733 events , 25% of the day's total. ETH followed with $35.8M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long ETHUSDT position worth $3.5M on binance at 01:38 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, 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, 2026-10-26

1BTC3,733 events$47.9M
2ETH4,045 events$35.8M
3XYZ:EWZ319 events$11.5M
4WET84 events$7.0M
5SOL1,181 events$6.3M
6Q4,346 events$6.2M
7ZEC1,790 events$5.3M
8SNDK862 events$4.2M
9DOOD4,187 events$3.2M
10BTW2,000 events$3.2M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-10-26

LONGETHUSDTbinance01:38 UTC$3.5M
LONGXYZ:EWZ-USDhyperliquid00:05 UTC$2.0M
SHORTBTC-USDhyperliquid15:21 UTC$1.9M
LONGXYZ:EWZ-USDhyperliquid00:05 UTC$1.4M
LONGBTCUSDTbinance13:30 UTC$1.2M

By exchange, 2026-10-26