Crypto liquidations, Wednesday, October 28, 2026

$284.5M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$284.5M

events

61,538

longs wiped

$98.6M

shorts wiped

$185.9M

long 35%short 65%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$78.6M

$39.3M

$78.6M

S peak 20:00 · $78.6M

L peak 20:00 · $29.6M

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 2026-10-28

61,538 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $284.5M. Liquidations were two-sided (35% long / 65% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

ETH bore the brunt: $73.4M across 3,254 events , 26% of the day's total. BTC followed with $56.5M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short BTC-USD position worth $6.3M on hyperliquid at 08:35 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, gate, okx, bybit, bitget, htx, aster, lighter, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.