History/2026-10-31

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Crypto liquidations, Saturday, October 31, 2026

$49.2M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 8 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)
$49.2M
events
32,739
longs wiped
$26.0M
shorts wiped
$23.2M
long 53%short 47%

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 2026-10-31

32,739 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $49.2M. Liquidations were two-sided (53% long / 47% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $7.3M across 738 events , 15% of the day's total. ETH followed with $6.7M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short BTC-USD position worth $907K on hyperliquid at 01:01 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, gate, bitget, htx, aster, lighter. 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, 2026-10-31

1BTC738 events$7.3M
2ETH703 events$6.7M
3HYPE695 events$5.7M
4AIN1,350 events$2.1M
5LSK2,560 events$2.0M
6TRX638 events$1.7M
7ZEC599 events$1.4M
8BEAMX1,291 events$1.3M
9Q1,601 events$1.1M
10SOL391 events$1.1M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-10-31

SHORTBTC-USDhyperliquid01:01 UTC$907K
LONGHYPE-USDhyperliquid08:16 UTC$844K
SHORTPUMPUSDTbinance16:06 UTC$757K
LONGHYPE-USDhyperliquid08:36 UTC$693K
SHORTETHUSDTbinance12:38 UTC$607K

By exchange, 2026-10-31