Our own capture of Bybit's public liquidation stream: $25.7M closed by force in the 24 hours to 19:00Z Oct-23, across 562 contracts — and the footprint: where the last seven days of liquidations actually landed, relative to the price at the start of each 24-hour window.
$25.7M liquidated on Bybit in the 24 hours to 19:00Z Oct-23 · longs $11.9M (9,073) · shorts $13.8M (13,195) · 562 contracts · our own capture · five venues on Oct-22 2026: $198.1M, Bybit 17.9%, measured and published by askthetape.com.
When a leveraged bet loses too much, the exchange closes it by force: a liquidation. Bybit broadcasts each one — contract, side, size and price — and we keep that stream. In the 24 hours to 19:00Z Oct-23 it carried $25.7M: longs (bets on a rise) $11.9M, shorts (bets on a fall) $13.8M, on 562 contracts. The tables name the contracts where the most money was closed, split Bybit's board into crypto, its innovation zone of newer tokens and TradFi (stocks, funds, metals, oil, FX), put Bybit next to the four other venues we can add up, and show where the week's liquidations on BTC, ETH and SOL landed relative to the price at the start of each 24-hour window. The footprint under the headline number takes every 24-hour window of the last seven days and shows, for each 0.5% step away from the price at the window's start, how much of that window's liquidation money landed that far away — longs below, shorts above — averaged over the windows. On BTC, in an average window, 89% of it landed within 2% of that price. It describes what already happened; it is not a map of where liquidations sit now.
| leg | 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. |
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| 🩸 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). |
| footprint | Drawn once a day at 00:00Z and kept as drawn (this build: 00:00Z Oct-23, 141 contracts): 145 windows of 24 hours, one starting every hour over the seven days before. Each liquidation is placed against the price at its window's start (Bybit's hourly candle open), after Bybit's printed price is moved back by the contract's first-tier maintenance margin from Bybit's risk-limit list (0.33% for BTC and ETH, 0.5% for SOL); each window's dollars become shares on 0.5% steps within ±30%, and the footprint is their average. «Within ±2% of the price» = the four steps on each side of it. Contracts get a footprint when they averaged $10K a day of liquidations in the seven days. |
| classes | Bybit's own labels from its instrument list (symbolType): stock, ETF, commodity and forex = TradFi; innovation = Bybit's innovation zone; the rest = crypto. 0 contracts in the 24 hours are dated futures, not perpetuals; contracts no longer in Bybit's list are shown apart. |
| venues | Binance, OKX and dYdX from our live liquidation feeds; Hyperliquid from the liquidation fills we can label (a lower bound). The live Bybit feed covers 21 coins and sits inside this page's Bybit row, so it is never added twice. 🩸 Gate is left out of every sum and share here: our Gate leg (its public window, polled every five minutes) adds up the size of the position left before each partial liquidation instead of the order that closed. Measured in Gate's own public list for BTC on Sep-24 14:52–14:54Z: $130.8M by position size against $9.1M by order size. The leg is to be repaired; until then its dollars are not comparable. |
| capture gaps · last 30 days | Sep-26 2026 Hyperliquid: labelled fills at 8% of their usual share of Bybit's count; Oct-03 2026 Hyperliquid: labelled fills at 3% of their usual share of Bybit's count; Oct-06 2026 Hyperliquid: labelled fills at 24% of their usual share of Bybit's count; Oct-10 2026 Hyperliquid: labelled fills at 17% of their usual share of Bybit's count. Rule: a day is flagged when a feed goes silent for three or more hours while it usually prints, when Gate's poll misses more than 5% of its minute-rows, when our two Bybit captures disagree by more than 10%, or when Hyperliquid's labelled fills fall below a quarter of their usual share. |
| cadence | hourly: the parser adds each closed hour at :25 UTC, and the page quotes the 24 hours to the end of the last hour in the capture (19:00Z Oct-23 in this build); daily series stop at the last closed UTC day |
| since | 2026-06-22 |
| neighbours | the same forced closes as daily totals per venue: /m/liquidation-events/ · the board these contracts trade on: /m/bybit-panel/ |
| this build | data to Oct-22 2026 |
| policy | no backfill · read it here · export: whole history |
| contract · group · band | US dollars | longs wiped out | shorts wiped out | share | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRYSUSDT | $8.8M | $863.0K (1,520) | $8.0M (8,278) | 34.3% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $38.1K, a short at $0.1523, 17:00Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $4.5M | $3.1M (359) | $1.3M (166) | 17.3% of 24 h | crypto · largest $284.6K, a long at $81,102.90, 14:16Z Oct-23 |
| ETHUSDT | $1.7M | $790.3K (212) | $878.3K (122) | 6.5% of 24 h | crypto · largest $240.1K, a short at $2,403.09, 14:23Z Oct-23 |
| SOXLUSDT | $655.9K | $523.6K (279) | $132.3K (84) | 2.5% of 24 h | TradFi · largest $16.9K, a short at $85.15, 17:00Z Oct-23 |
| XRPUSDT | $504.3K | $457.3K (167) | $47.0K (34) | 2.0% of 24 h | crypto · largest $42.8K, a long at $1.291, 20:42Z Oct-22 |
| 1000PEPEUSDT | $459.8K | $161.9K (94) | $297.9K (197) | 1.8% of 24 h | crypto · largest $37.6K, a short at $0.004871, 08:37Z Oct-23 |
| JCTUSDT | $439.7K | $63.9K (212) | $375.9K (527) | 1.7% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $16.5K, a short at $0.005534, 15:39Z Oct-23 |
| XAUTUSDT | $424.6K | $424.6K (68) | $8 (1) | 1.6% of 24 h | crypto · largest $243.9K, a long at $3,960.07, 14:27Z Oct-23 |
| SOLUSDT | $364.9K | $183.5K (100) | $181.4K (56) | 1.4% of 24 h | crypto · largest $72.9K, a short at $105.64, 13:53Z Oct-23 |
| AKEUSDT | $356.6K | $130.0K (271) | $226.6K (417) | 1.4% of 24 h | crypto · largest $7.5K, a short at $0.03919, 18:28Z Oct-23 |
| ZECUSDT | $333.1K | $170.0K (107) | $163.1K (92) | 1.3% of 24 h | crypto · largest $11.4K, a long at $1,208.89, 06:03Z Oct-23 |
| NEARUSDT | $331.5K | $255.1K (129) | $76.4K (50) | 1.3% of 24 h | crypto · largest $65.7K, a long at $4.778, 14:17Z Oct-23 |
| XAUUSDT | $327.9K | $318.5K (200) | $9.4K (7) | 1.3% of 24 h | TradFi · largest $10.0K, a long at $3,988.37, 15:43Z Oct-23 |
| BIRBUSDT | $312.3K | $96.1K (168) | $216.2K (414) | 1.2% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $11.3K, a long at $0.0833, 17:10Z Oct-23 |
| BTRUSDT | $287.5K | $147.6K (296) | $140.0K (300) | 1.1% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $6.7K, a short at $0.06734, 23:42Z Oct-22 |
| PAXGUSDT | $261.5K | $261.4K (20) | $52 (1) | 1.0% of 24 h | crypto · largest $158.9K, a long at $3,972.95, 02:00Z Oct-23 |
| MAGMAUSDT | $225.6K | $78.6K (154) | $147.0K (306) | 0.9% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $6.1K, a short at $0.4147, 15:29Z Oct-23 |
| CLUSDT | $205.5K | $15.2K (11) | $190.3K (90) | 0.8% of 24 h | TradFi · largest $11.3K, a short at $103.25, 15:36Z Oct-23 |
| PTBUSDT | $204.7K | $170.5K (449) | $34.2K (69) | 0.8% of 24 h | innovation zone · largest $6.4K, a long at $0.0003514, 08:31Z Oct-23 |
| XAGUSDT | $189.0K | $172.6K (87) | $16.4K (6) | 0.7% of 24 h | TradFi · largest $10.7K, a long at $53.31, 14:16Z Oct-23 |
| the other 542 contracts | $4.9M | $3.5M (4,170) | $1.4M (1,978) | 19.1% of 24 h | 436 of them below the $10K threshold for a row of their own |
| crypto | $12.7M | $8.6M (4,473) | $4.1M (2,513) | 49.3% of 24 h | 337 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $154.1M (82.8%), 454 contracts, 93 of them above $10K a day on average |
| innovation zone | $10.8M | $1.8M (3,639) | $9.0M (10,281) | 42.0% of 24 h | 97 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $19.5M (10.5%), 115 contracts, 18 of them above $10K a day on average |
| TradFi | $2.2M | $1.6M (961) | $666.0K (401) | 8.7% of 24 h | 128 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $12.4M (6.7%), 232 contracts, 25 of them above $10K a day on average |
| no longer listed | $0 | $0 (0) | $0 (0) | 0.0% of 24 h | 0 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $651 (0.0%), 2 contracts, 0 of them above $10K a day on average |
| all classes | $25.7M | $11.9M (9,073) | $13.8M (13,195) | 100.0% of 24 h | 562 contracts in 24 hours · 7 days: $186.0M, 803 contracts |
| SOXLUSDT | $655.9K | $523.6K (279) | $132.3K (84) | 29.3% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $16.9K, a short at $85.15, 17:00Z Oct-23 |
| XAUUSDT | $327.9K | $318.5K (200) | $9.4K (7) | 14.6% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $10.0K, a long at $3,988.37, 15:43Z Oct-23 |
| CLUSDT | $205.5K | $15.2K (11) | $190.3K (90) | 9.2% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $11.3K, a short at $103.25, 15:36Z Oct-23 |
| XAGUSDT | $189.0K | $172.6K (87) | $16.4K (6) | 8.4% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $10.7K, a long at $53.31, 14:16Z Oct-23 |
| KORUUSDT | $91.3K | $76.9K (58) | $14.4K (7) | 4.1% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $11.0K, a long at $9.52, 00:08Z Oct-23 |
| SOXSUSDT | $90.7K | $19.3K (9) | $71.4K (22) | 4.0% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $61.3K, a short at $53.02, 17:00Z Oct-23 |
| BZUSDT | $86.0K | $4.8K (3) | $81.2K (28) | 3.8% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $14.6K, a short at $112.36, 15:09Z Oct-23 |
| SNDKUSDT | $63.4K | $49.3K (29) | $14.1K (13) | 2.8% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $6.9K, a long at $1,264.64, 17:00Z Oct-23 |
| BEUSDT | $56.1K | $54.5K (22) | $1.6K (3) | 2.5% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $13.1K, a long at $197.75, 20:51Z Oct-22 |
| SKHYUSDT | $52.7K | $37.1K (14) | $15.6K (7) | 2.4% of TradFi | TradFi · largest $10.1K, a short at $133.46, 23:53Z Oct-22 |
| the other 118 TradFi contracts | $422.4K | $303.2K (249) | $119.2K (134) | 18.8% of TradFi | below $10K each, or beyond the ten rows |
| Binance | $87.5M | $81.7M (4,329) | $5.8M (552) | 44.2% of the five | 7 days $504.8M (48.5%) · 30 days $2.58B (48.0%) · capture: no gap flagged |
| Bybit | $35.5M | $32.2M (11,904) | $3.3M (3,118) | 17.9% of the five | 7 days $187.3M (18.0%) · 30 days $1.07B (20.0%) · capture: no gap flagged |
| Hyperliquid | $59.1M | $59.0M (9,485) | $73.9K (56) | 29.8% of the five | 7 days $258.6M (24.9%) · 30 days $1.24B (23.0%) · capture: no gap flagged · a lower bound: only the fills we can label |
| OKX | $15.9M | $14.9M (2,306) | $996.8K (246) | 8.0% of the five | 7 days $89.4M (8.6%) · 30 days $476.4M (8.9%) · capture: no gap flagged |
| dYdX | $7.7K | $7.2K (10) | $491 (1) | 0.0% of the five | 7 days $249.5K (0.0%) · 30 days $2.0M (0.0%) · capture: not checked for silence: too few events an hour |
| Gate | — | — | — | not added | not in these sums yet: until Sep-25 the leg added up the position left before each partial liquidation, not the order that closed — on Sep-24 14:52–14:54Z that made $130.8M out of $9.1M in Gate's own public list; the leg and its history were corrected on Sep-25 |
| Bybit · live feed, 21 coins | $21.0M | $20.0M (2,974) | $1.1M (191) | inside the Bybit row | our second capture of the same stream, on 21 coins; not added to the total · capture: no gap flagged |
| BTC · 10% to 30% below | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | BTC: 5,355 liquidations, $49.1M over the 7 days; 145 hourly windows |
| BTC · 5% to 10% below | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | |
| BTC · 2% to 5% below | — | 4.3% longs | 0.2% shorts | 4.5% of the profile | |
| BTC · 1% to 2% below | — | 11.0% longs | 0.5% shorts | 11.5% of the profile | |
| BTC · 0.5% to 1% below | — | 18.0% longs | 2.1% shorts | 20.1% of the profile | |
| BTC · 0% to 0.5% below | — | 11.9% longs | 4.1% shorts | 16.0% of the profile | |
| BTC · 0% to 0.5% above | — | 3.8% longs | 8.5% shorts | 12.3% of the profile | |
| BTC · 0.5% to 1% above | — | 2.9% longs | 9.8% shorts | 12.7% of the profile | |
| BTC · 1% to 2% above | — | 3.1% longs | 14.0% shorts | 17.0% of the profile | |
| BTC · 2% to 5% above | — | 0.3% longs | 5.6% shorts | 6.0% of the profile | |
| BTC · 5% to 10% above | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | |
| BTC · 10% to 30% above | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | |
| ETH · 10% to 30% below | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | ETH: 3,678 liquidations, $37.7M over the 7 days; 145 hourly windows |
| ETH · 5% to 10% below | — | 1.2% longs | 0.0% shorts | 1.2% of the profile | |
| ETH · 2% to 5% below | — | 18.5% longs | 1.0% shorts | 19.6% of the profile | |
| ETH · 1% to 2% below | — | 17.2% longs | 2.8% shorts | 20.0% of the profile | |
| ETH · 0.5% to 1% below | — | 7.0% longs | 2.6% shorts | 9.6% of the profile | |
| ETH · 0% to 0.5% below | — | 5.5% longs | 2.8% shorts | 8.3% of the profile | |
| ETH · 0% to 0.5% above | — | 3.1% longs | 3.6% shorts | 6.7% of the profile | |
| ETH · 0.5% to 1% above | — | 2.2% longs | 5.5% shorts | 7.7% of the profile | |
| ETH · 1% to 2% above | — | 3.4% longs | 8.9% shorts | 12.3% of the profile | |
| ETH · 2% to 5% above | — | 1.7% longs | 13.0% shorts | 14.7% of the profile | |
| ETH · 5% to 10% above | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | |
| ETH · 10% to 30% above | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | |
| SOL · 10% to 30% below | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | SOL: 2,187 liquidations, $8.4M over the 7 days; 145 hourly windows |
| SOL · 5% to 10% below | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | |
| SOL · 2% to 5% below | — | 22.3% longs | 1.0% shorts | 23.3% of the profile | |
| SOL · 1% to 2% below | — | 15.2% longs | 1.7% shorts | 16.9% of the profile | |
| SOL · 0.5% to 1% below | — | 8.3% longs | 1.8% shorts | 10.1% of the profile | |
| SOL · 0% to 0.5% below | — | 5.7% longs | 1.8% shorts | 7.5% of the profile | |
| SOL · 0% to 0.5% above | — | 3.6% longs | 3.6% shorts | 7.2% of the profile | |
| SOL · 0.5% to 1% above | — | 2.6% longs | 5.8% shorts | 8.4% of the profile | |
| SOL · 1% to 2% above | — | 3.4% longs | 10.1% shorts | 13.5% of the profile | |
| SOL · 2% to 5% above | — | 1.3% longs | 11.8% shorts | 13.1% of the profile | |
| SOL · 5% to 10% above | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | |
| SOL · 10% to 30% above | — | 0.0% longs | 0.0% shorts | 0.0% of the profile | |
| BTCUSDT | $284.6K | a long | — | 1.11% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,102.90, 14:16:33Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $275.1K | a long | — | 1.07% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,090.40, 14:16:33Z Oct-23 |
| XAUTUSDT | $243.9K | a long | — | 0.95% of 24 h | crypto · at $3,960.07, 14:27:27Z Oct-23 |
| ETHUSDT | $240.1K | — | a short | 0.93% of 24 h | crypto · at $2,403.09, 14:23:20Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $238.8K | a long | — | 0.93% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,016.50, 14:16:38Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $161.6K | a long | — | 0.63% of 24 h | crypto · at $80,815.40, 14:17:12Z Oct-23 |
| PAXGUSDT | $158.9K | a long | — | 0.62% of 24 h | crypto · at $3,972.95, 02:00:07Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $155.3K | — | a short | 0.60% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,788.20, 16:58:31Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $141.3K | — | a short | 0.55% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,818.50, 16:59:48Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $125.6K | a long | — | 0.49% of 24 h | crypto · at $80,840.70, 14:17:12Z Oct-23 |
| ETHUSDT | $118.9K | a long | — | 0.46% of 24 h | crypto · at $2,378.22, 22:19:13Z Oct-22 |
| INJUSDT | $108.9K | a long | — | 0.42% of 24 h | crypto · at $7.764, 14:16:53Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $101.1K | — | a short | 0.39% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,921.50, 01:47:18Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $98.3K | — | a short | 0.38% of 24 h | crypto · at $81,837.90, 14:36:46Z Oct-23 |
| BTCUSDT | $91.0K | a long | — | 0.35% of 24 h | crypto · at $80,893.60, 14:17:04Z Oct-23 |
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