Crypto liquidations, Thursday, October 29, 2026

$1.08B of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)

$1.08B

events

158,265

longs wiped

$905.7M

shorts wiped

$175.9M

long 84%short 16%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

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

$588.3M

$294.1M

$588.3M

S peak 15:00 · $40.0M

L peak 20:00 · $588.3M

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 2026-10-29

158,265 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $1.08B. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 84% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

BTC bore the brunt: $335.1M across 10,211 events , 31% of the day's total. ETH followed with $234.8M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long BTCUSDT position worth $11.1M on binance at 20:42 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, bybit, okx, bitget, gate, 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.