Our own 15-minute panel of Bybit's linear contracts and our own capture of its liquidation stream: on Oct-26 2026 the board held 911 contracts and $5.86B in open bets, one side, and $19.2M of bets was closed by force.
911 contracts 626 crypto + 285 TradFi (stocks, ETFs, FX, energy) · Bybit, Oct-26 2026, measured and published by askthetape.com.
Bybit lists far more than bitcoin. On Oct-26 2026 our panel of its board held 911 contracts — 626 on crypto and 285 on traditional markets, by Bybit's own labels — with $5.86B in open bets, one side. The same day Bybit closed $19.2M of bets by force: longs (bets on a rise) $11.6M, shorts (bets on a fall) $7.6M, across 622 contracts. The card at the top shows that day in one look. The tabs under it carry the charts and the tables: how the money and the count moved over time, what was closed by force contract by contract, where the money went in and out on the day, and the TradFi side by group.
| leg | own daily panel of Bybit's linear contracts (15-minute capture, last snapshot of the UTC day) — file feed `wide_*`: price, funding, open interest, spread and basis for every contract in the snapshot, 96 snapshots on a full day |
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| leg · forced closes | own capture of Bybit's public liquidation stream (topic allLiquidation), parsed hourly on our production box from our own order-book recorder's archive — one row per liquidation: time, contract, side, size, price; first full day 2026-06-22. The leg keeps every row it has ever pulled (it adds, never deletes) and drops a row only when time, contract, side, price and size all repeat. |
| 🩸 open interest: one side | 🩸 ONE SIDE (Bybit's own singleOpenInterest) EVERYWHERE — one convention across the whole site, not per page. Bybit and Hyperliquid count BOTH sides of every contract in their public field, so both are halved. Bybit: checked again on the live handles 2026-09-12, openInterest / singleOpenInterest = 2.000000 on all seven symbols probed (BTC, SOL, HYPE, UNI and the TradFi books XAUT, SPX, TSLA — the exchange's convention, not one market's). Hyperliquid reports two-sided open interest — its own note of 2026-09-23: «Two-sided OI is calculated as the sum of long and short positions» — and our own record of its positions agrees: on no market do the tracked longs reach much past half of the field. We halve it to one side, like the other venues. The correction runs over the WHOLE history — neither field has ever been one-sided, so there is no seam to date; until this correction, Hyperliquid was printed here at both sides. This panel carries the same two-sided field and is halved over its whole history. There is no seam on 2026-09-12 in the capture itself — the crypto total moved ×1.016 from Sep-11 to Sep-12; that date is when the site changed its convention, not when the feed changed. |
| 🩸 what the panel is not | 36 of the 911 contracts on 2026-10-26 are dated futures (they expire), not perpetuals, and 67 are settled in USDC. Eleven Bybit books are not in this panel at all: gold (XAU, and XAUT in both margins), silver, WTI oil and six stock and fund books (MSTR, NVDA, QQQ, TSLA, SPY, COIN). Our poller records them apart every 5 minutes, together with the dated gold futures: 15 contracts that held $231.0M in open bets on 2026-10-26, one side — next to $248.6M for the whole TradFi side of this panel. |
| 🩸 completeness | Bybit publishes no liquidation history to check against. Our check is a second capture of ours: the live liquidation feed we run on 21 of the same coins. Over the last 30 closed days the two differ by a median of 0.10% in the number of events on those coins. A separate read of the raw archive for Sep-17 → Sep-23 found the same 131,951 liquidations, none missing and none extra. |
| side | Bybit tags each liquidation with the side of the closing order: Buy closes a long, Sell closes a short (checked on minute prices: before a Buy, price had fallen in 94–96% of cases). |
| price | Bybit prints the bankruptcy price — where the position's margin is used up — not the market price at that second. For BTC and ETH it sits about 0.33% beyond the market, for SOL about 0.5% (the first maintenance-margin tier). |
| classes | Bybit's own labels from its instrument list (symbolType): stock, ETF, commodity and forex = TradFi; innovation = Bybit's innovation zone; the rest = crypto. 2 contracts in the 24 hours are dated futures, not perpetuals; contracts no longer in Bybit's list are shown apart. |
| cadence | panel: 15-minute snapshots, the day's last one at 23:45Z — the card, the open-bets charts and the money tables quote the last CLOSED day (2026-10-26), never the running one. Forced closes: the capture is parsed hourly at :25 UTC, the Forced closes tab and its tables quote the 24 hours to 15:00Z Oct-27. The card's forced closes are the same closed day as the panel. |
| since | 2026-06-11 the panel · 2026-06-22 the liquidation stream |
| neighbours | the eleven Bybit books read apart, with their premium: /m/tradfi-perps/ · the same forced closes venue by venue: /m/liquidation-events/ · who pays whom on the same board: /m/funding-breadth/ |
| this build | data to Oct-26 2026 |
| policy | no backfill · no export · read it here · read on the site · not exported: we have not declared where this series comes from |
| contract or group | open interest | change on the day | change, % | share | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTCUSDT | $2.49B | +$26.3M | +1.1% | 42.42% of the board | crypto · last price $80,146.70 |
| ETHUSDT | $897.3M | +$16.5M | +1.9% | 15.32% of the board | crypto · last price $2,323.00 |
| QUSDT | $7.5M | +$5.3M | +247.1% | 0.13% of the board | crypto · last price $0.199650 |
| ZECUSDT | $86.6M | +$4.8M | +5.9% | 1.48% of the board | crypto · last price $1,234.33 |
| XRPUSDT | $144.2M | +$4.6M | +3.3% | 2.46% of the board | crypto · last price $1.3017 |
| ENAUSDT | $41.3M | +$1.9M | +4.8% | 0.71% of the board | crypto · last price $0.20774 |
| QNTUSDT | $9.0M | +$1.5M | +19.4% | 0.15% of the board | crypto · last price $202.95 |
| DOODUSDT | $2.2M | +$1.3M | +157.5% | 0.04% of the board | crypto · last price $0.0019610 |
| SUIUSDT | $39.8M | +$1.1M | +2.8% | 0.68% of the board | crypto · last price $0.91660 |
| UNIUSDT | $29.1M | +$1.0M | +3.7% | 0.50% of the board | crypto · last price $7.159 |
| BTCPERP | $52.6M | −$5.4M | −9.3% | 0.90% of the board | crypto · settled in USDC · last price $80,029.90 |
| NEARUSDT | $87.7M | −$2.2M | −2.5% | 1.50% of the board | crypto · last price $4.5030 |
| SOLUSDT | $297.7M | −$1.9M | −0.6% | 5.08% of the board | crypto · last price $100.830 |
| BTWUSDT | $4.7M | −$1.4M | −23.3% | 0.08% of the board | crypto · last price $1.17687 |
| BTCUSDT-06NOV26 | $533.6K | −$784.3K | −59.5% | 0.01% of the board | crypto · dated future · last price $79,802.0 |
| XMRUSDT | $21.8M | −$782.7K | −3.5% | 0.37% of the board | crypto · last price $598.82 |
| ORDERUSDT | $1.8M | −$750.7K | −29.1% | 0.03% of the board | crypto · last price $0.03942 |
| CAPUSDT | $3.8M | −$688.6K | −15.2% | 0.07% of the board | crypto · last price $0.09939 |
| 1000PEPEUSDT | $24.7M | −$675.0K | −2.7% | 0.42% of the board | crypto · last price $0.0043130 |
| SNDKUSDT | $12.7M | −$626.1K | −4.7% | 0.22% of the board | TradFi · stocks · SanDisk Corporation · last price $1,269.26 |
| stocks | $177.6M | +$4.5M | +2.6% | 71.5% of TradFi | 226 contracts · 5 of them pre-listing (ANTHROPIC, MOONSHOT, OPENAI, OURA, POLYMARKET) · 175 with funding exactly 0 (market shut) |
| index & ETF | $59.4M | −$637.8K | −1.1% | 23.9% of TradFi | 55 contracts · 47 with funding exactly 0 (market shut) |
| metals | $0 | — | — | 0.0% of TradFi | 0 contracts in this panel · gold and silver are read apart |
| energy | $10.9M | +$984.7K | +9.9% | 4.4% of TradFi | 1 contract · 0 with funding exactly 0 (market shut) |
| FX | $727.7K | +$15.0K | +2.1% | 0.3% of TradFi | 3 contracts · 2 with funding exactly 0 (market shut) |
| other | $0 | — | — | 0.0% of TradFi | 0 contracts in this panel |
| SOXLUSDT | $26.7M | −$321.1K | −1.2% | 10.7% of TradFi | TradFi · index & ETF · Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3x ETF · last price $92.51 |
| SKHYNIXUSDT | $21.8M | +$426.0K | +2.0% | 8.8% of TradFi | TradFi · stocks · Sk Hynix Inc · last price $1,007.86 |
| SPCXUSDT | $19.5M | +$103.4K | +0.5% | 7.8% of TradFi | TradFi · stocks · SpaceX · last price $148.34 |
| SNDKUSDT | $12.7M | −$626.1K | −4.7% | 5.1% of TradFi | TradFi · stocks · SanDisk Corporation · last price $1,269.26 |
| MUUSDT | $11.8M | +$380.3K | +3.3% | 4.7% of TradFi | TradFi · stocks · Micron Technology · last price $913.67 |
| BZUSDT | $10.9M | +$984.7K | +9.9% | 4.4% of TradFi | TradFi · energy · Brent Crude Oil · last price $110.44 |
| KORUUSDT | $9.0M | +$541.2K | +6.4% | 3.6% of TradFi | TradFi · index & ETF · Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3x ETF · last price $11.21 |
| CRCLUSDT | $8.5M | +$603.2K | +7.7% | 3.4% of TradFi | TradFi · stocks · Circle Internet Group Inc · last price $80.37 |
| SKHYUSDT | $7.7M | +$173.3K | +2.3% | 3.1% of TradFi | TradFi · stocks · Sk Hynix Inc Nasdaq · last price $145.05 |
| INTCUSDT | $7.6M | +$840.7K | +12.4% | 3.1% of TradFi | TradFi · stocks · Intel · last price $91.61 |
| contract · group · band | US dollars | longs wiped out | shorts wiped out | share | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUSDT | $4.0M | $1.1M (1,715) | $2.8M (2,498) | 26.6% of 24 h | crypto · largest $69.4K, a short at $0.2098, 23:00Z Oct-26 |
| BTCUSDT | $2.2M | $1.1M (219) | $1.1M (208) | 14.7% of 24 h | crypto · largest $162.1K, a short at $81,053.80, 15:21Z Oct-26 |
| ETHUSDT | $2.1M | $931.5K (134) | $1.1M (140) | 13.8% of 24 h | crypto · largest $303.1K, a short at $2,337.45, 01:43Z Oct-27 |
| SOLUSDT | $681.6K | $450.0K (176) | $231.6K (59) | 4.6% of 24 h | crypto · largest $88.8K, a long at $99.89, 18:59Z Oct-26 |
| WLDUSDT | $334.7K | $304.9K (87) | $29.8K (14) | 2.2% of 24 h | crypto · largest $144.9K, a long at $0.4245, 09:53Z Oct-27 |
| SOXLUSDT | $323.1K | $134.1K (63) | $189.1K (79) | 2.2% of 24 h | TradFi · largest $11.0K, a short at $93.1, 15:25Z Oct-26 |
| DOODUSDT | $315.3K | $99.2K (263) | $216.1K (311) | 2.1% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $15.6K, a short at $0.002451, 01:48Z Oct-27 |
| BTWUSDT | $292.1K | $63.0K (151) | $229.1K (208) | 2.0% of 24 h | crypto · largest $42.9K, a short at $1.306, 15:28Z Oct-26 |
| ZECUSDT | $276.0K | $122.1K (77) | $153.8K (92) | 1.9% of 24 h | crypto · largest $11.4K, a short at $1,268.95, 15:06Z Oct-26 |
| DOGEUSDT | $265.1K | $10.3K (25) | $254.8K (12) | 1.8% of 24 h | crypto · largest $252.0K, a short at $0.07855, 15:21Z Oct-26 |
| JCTUSDT | $252.1K | $33.2K (90) | $218.9K (272) | 1.7% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $7.9K, a short at $0.007236, 00:31Z Oct-27 |
| ENAUSDT | $248.7K | $136.3K (98) | $112.4K (51) | 1.7% of 24 h | crypto · largest $19.8K, a long at $0.2085, 17:29Z Oct-26 |
| AAVEUSDT | $213.3K | $195.2K (37) | $18.1K (6) | 1.4% of 24 h | crypto · largest $85.7K, a long at $131.42, 04:09Z Oct-27 |
| NEARUSDT | $201.1K | $123.7K (99) | $77.4K (47) | 1.3% of 24 h | crypto · largest $16.2K, a short at $4.562, 12:25Z Oct-27 |
| NILUSDT | $199.3K | $68.1K (84) | $131.2K (122) | 1.3% of 24 h | crypto · largest $16.2K, a short at $0.104, 07:30Z Oct-27 |
| XRPUSDT | $183.8K | $84.0K (79) | $99.9K (78) | 1.2% of 24 h | crypto · largest $30.0K, a long at $1.305, 13:05Z Oct-27 |
| 1000PEPEUSDT | $174.4K | $78.4K (42) | $96.0K (22) | 1.2% of 24 h | crypto · largest $91.5K, a short at $0.004449, 14:31Z Oct-27 |
| QNTUSDT | $130.6K | $98.2K (113) | $32.4K (39) | 0.9% of 24 h | crypto · largest $13.8K, a long at $195.15, 05:30Z Oct-27 |
| IRYSUSDT | $114.3K | $83.8K (154) | $30.5K (94) | 0.8% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $14.5K, a long at $0.02582, 16:33Z Oct-26 |
| HYPEUSDT | $101.1K | $44.6K (40) | $56.4K (53) | 0.7% of 24 h | crypto · largest $5.0K, a short at $80.09, 17:36Z Oct-26 |
| the other 581 contracts | $2.4M | $1.6M (2,756) | $751.4K (1,301) | 15.9% of 24 h | 517 of them below the $10K threshold for a row of their own |
| crypto | $13.0M | $6.1M (4,933) | $6.9M (4,201) | 87.4% of 24 h | 398 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $181.3M (78.5%), 455 contracts, 108 of them above $10K a day on average |
| innovation zone | $1.2M | $498.8K (1,308) | $709.0K (1,273) | 8.1% of 24 h | 109 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $40.8M (17.6%), 115 contracts, 26 of them above $10K a day on average |
| TradFi | $670.5K | $318.0K (260) | $352.6K (231) | 4.5% of 24 h | 93 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $8.9M (3.9%), 240 contracts, 19 of them above $10K a day on average |
| no longer listed | $23 | $0 (1) | $22 (1) | 0.0% of 24 h | 1 contract in 24 hours · 7 days: $7.7K (0.0%), 2 contracts, 0 of them above $10K a day on average |
| all classes | $14.9M | $6.9M (6,502) | $8.0M (5,706) | 100.0% of 24 h | 601 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $231.0M, 812 contracts |
| SOXLUSDT | $323.1K | $134.1K (63) | $189.1K (79) | 48.2% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $11.0K, a short at $93.1, 15:25Z Oct-26 |
| XAGUSDT | $78.3K | $58.8K (30) | $19.5K (8) | 11.7% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $10.0K, a long at $52.61, 06:39Z Oct-27 |
| XAUUSDT | $66.6K | $10.6K (17) | $56.0K (48) | 9.9% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $8.1K, a short at $4,059.58, 14:04Z Oct-27 |
| PLTRUSDT | $23.2K | $0 (0) | $23.2K (2) | 3.5% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $15.1K, a short at $203.67, 17:13Z Oct-26 |
| CLUSDT | $21.1K | $9.4K (16) | $11.7K (16) | 3.2% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $3.9K, a short at $101.81, 10:48Z Oct-27 |
| SPCXUSDT | $19.0K | $19.0K (6) | $72 (2) | 2.8% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $9.9K, a long at $147.89, 14:09Z Oct-27 |
| KORUUSDT | $17.0K | $5.3K (10) | $11.7K (9) | 2.5% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $5.6K, a short at $11.15, 15:01Z Oct-26 |
| NBISUSDT | $14.0K | $13.8K (3) | $212 (1) | 2.1% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $7.1K, a long at $151.56, 05:30Z Oct-27 |
| AVGOUSDT | $13.4K | $0 (0) | $13.4K (1) | 2.0% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $13.4K, a short at $347.41, 13:39Z Oct-27 |
| SKHYUSDT | $13.3K | $12.7K (4) | $568 (1) | 2.0% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $8.9K, a long at $146.11, 13:20Z Oct-27 |
| the other 83 TradFi contracts | $81.5K | $54.3K (111) | $27.2K (64) | 12.2% of TradFi | below $10K each, or beyond the ten rows |
| ETHUSDT | $303.1K | — | a short | 2.03% of 24 h | crypto · at $2,337.45, 01:43:17Z Oct-27 |
| ETHUSDT | $290.2K | a long | — | 1.95% of 24 h | crypto · at $2,322.34, 15:54:42Z Oct-26 |
| DOGEUSDT | $252.0K | — | a short | 1.69% of 24 h | crypto · at $0.07855, 15:21:03Z Oct-26 |
| ETHUSDT | $184.7K | a long | — | 1.24% of 24 h | crypto · at $2,308.76, 18:50:53Z Oct-26 |
| ETHUSDT | $175.9K | — | a short | 1.18% of 24 h | crypto · at $2,345.77, 15:21:04Z Oct-26 |
| BTCUSDT | $162.1K | — | a short | 1.09% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,053.80, 15:21:21Z Oct-26 |
| BTCUSDT | $151.1K | — | a short | 1.01% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,056.60, 15:21:22Z Oct-26 |
| WLDUSDT | $144.9K | a long | — | 0.97% of 24 h | crypto · at $0.4245, 09:53:15Z Oct-27 |
| BTCUSDT | $107.1K | — | a short | 0.72% of 24 h | crypto · at $80,545.40, 01:43:17Z Oct-27 |
| 1000PEPEUSDT | $91.5K | — | a short | 0.61% of 24 h | crypto · at $0.004449, 14:31:27Z Oct-27 |
| BTCUSDT | $91.2K | a long | — | 0.61% of 24 h | crypto · at $79,325.10, 10:07:03Z Oct-27 |
| SOLUSDT | $88.8K | a long | — | 0.60% of 24 h | crypto · at $99.89, 18:59:48Z Oct-26 |
| AAVEUSDT | $85.7K | a long | — | 0.57% of 24 h | crypto · at $131.42, 04:09:42Z Oct-27 |
| ETHUSDT | $73.5K | a long | — | 0.49% of 24 h | crypto · at $2,301.12, 20:42:37Z Oct-26 |
| QUSDT | $69.4K | — | a short | 0.47% of 24 h | crypto · at $0.2098, 23:00:29Z Oct-26 |
The chart itself is drawn in the browser: turn JavaScript on to hover a day, pick a window and draw your line. The numbers above come from the last build, Oct-27 2026 17:08Z.
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