History/2026-11-08

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Crypto liquidations, Sunday, November 8, 2026

$967.0M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a long-side cascade.

liquidated (24h)
$967.0M
events
135,500
longs wiped
$880.2M
shorts wiped
$86.8M
long 91%short 9%

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 2026-11-08

135,500 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $967.0M. The day was overwhelmingly long-side: 91% of the volume came from forced sellers, marking a leveraged-long flush, the classic signature of a downside cascade.

ETH bore the brunt: $422.6M across 8,743 events , 44% of the day's total. BTC followed with $257.8M. The single largest wipe of the day: a long ETHUSDT position worth $48.2M on binance at 21:55 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, okx, 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.

Most liquidated coins, 2026-11-08

1ETH8,743 events$422.6M
2BTC7,850 events$257.8M
3SOL3,301 events$35.2M
4XRP3,171 events$32.9M
5JCT21,323 events$21.8M
6HYPE1,607 events$15.6M
7ZEC2,160 events$14.8M
8DOGE1,448 events$11.8M
9SNDK940 events$6.4M
10NEAR1,206 events$6.0M

Biggest single wipes, 2026-11-08

LONGETHUSDTbinance21:55 UTC$48.2M
LONGETH-USDhyperliquid21:55 UTC$46.8M
LONGBTCUSDTbinance21:55 UTC$36.9M
LONGETHUSDTbinance21:55 UTC$23.1M
LONGETHUSDTbinance21:54 UTC$17.6M

By exchange, 2026-11-08