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.
Hourly intensity (UTC)
Liquidated volume per hour, stacked by side. 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.