Bitcoin (BTC) Perpetual Futures
Live Bitcoin perpetual-futures data - price, funding rate, open interest, trader positioning and 24-hour liquidations, aggregated across major exchanges. Bitcoin runs the deepest perpetual-futures market in crypto, so its funding, open interest and liquidations move the whole market.
Bitcoin (BTC) market read LIVE
BTC currently changes hands at $78,073, little changed over the last 24 hours. It ranks #1 by market cap at $1.57 trillion, with $56.44 billion traded across markets in the past day. The aggregated funding rate is essentially flat at +0.0000% - neither longs nor shorts are paying a meaningful premium right now. $10.9 million in BTC positions was liquidated over the past 24 hours - mostly shorts ($8.0 million vs $2.9 million in longs), squeezed on the way up. Account positioning leans long: 70% of accounts are long vs 30% short. Over the past week BTC is down 3.1%, and over 30 days down 8.5%. The price sits 38% below its all-time high of $126,080 (set in 2025). The heaviest band of BTC long liquidations sits near $74,000 - roughly 5.2% below the current price - where about $34.4 million of leveraged positions would be forced out. On the other side, the largest short-liquidation band is around $82,700, about 5.9% above spot, holding roughly $46.5 million. Long and short liquidation liquidity around BTC are close to balanced right now, with no obvious magnet in either direction. These levels come from MarginPad’s own liquidation collector, which reads forced-close events across eight exchanges and models where open leverage is concentrated. They move as positions do, so treat them as a map of pressure rather than a forecast. Over the last 7 days our collector recorded $780.7 million of BTC positions being force-closed across 42,679 individual liquidations. The heaviest single day was 29 October at $319.4 million, overwhelmingly longs. Across those 7 days 74% of the BTC damage fell on longs - a market that has been punishing buyers more than sellers. You can see the day-by-day figures, including the biggest single liquidation and the busiest hour, in our dated liquidation archive.
| Price | $78,073 | +0.00% in 24h |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $1.57 trillion | rank #1 |
| 24h spot volume | $56.44 billion | |
| 7-day change | -3.1% | |
| 30-day change | -8.5% | |
| All-time high | $126,080 | -38% from here |
| Funding rate | +0.0000% | flat |
| Liquidated in 24h | $10.9 million | MarginPad collector, 8 exchanges |
| - longs liquidated | $2.9 million | |
| - shorts liquidated | $8.0 million | |
| Accounts long / short | 70% / 30% | |
| Liquidations, 7-day average | $111.5 million / day | our own daily records |
| Heaviest of those days | $319.4 million | 2026-10-29 |
Written from live exchange-aggregated derivatives data · updated 2026-11-01 17:43 UTC · the numbers on this page refresh continuously.
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Bitcoin perpetual futures, explained
The BTC perpetual future (perp) lets you trade Bitcoin with leverage and no expiry. The funding rate keeps the perp price tethered to spot - positive funding means BTC longs are paying shorts (crowded longs), negative means the reverse. Open interest is the total value of open BTC positions; a fast rise means new leverage is flowing in. Liquidations show where over-leveraged BTC traders got force-closed - long liquidations on drops, short liquidations on rallies.
How to use this BTC dashboard
Read the four numbers together. Heavy positive funding plus lopsided long positioning and rising open interest is a crowded long setup that can unwind sharply. A spike in long liquidations often marks a local BTC bottom; a wave of short liquidations can fuel a squeeze higher. Confirm entries on the technical screener and size with the BTC liquidation calculator so leverage never puts you closer to liquidation than you intend.
Trading Bitcoin (BTC) with leverage
Bitcoin runs the deepest perpetual-futures market in crypto, so its funding, open interest and liquidations move the whole market. When you trade BTC on leverage, the single most important number is your liquidation price. At 100× a move of about half a percent against you is a wipeout; at 10× it takes a move of roughly 9.5%; at 5× close to 19.5%. Because Bitcoin can move several percent in a session, traders who last keep BTC leverage modest and set a stop-loss inside the liquidation level rather than chasing the maximum the exchange allows. Work out exactly where a position in BTC would be liquidated with the liquidation calculator, and how funding drains margin over a multi-day hold with the funding-fee calculator.
The four live numbers above tell you how crowded and leveraged the BTC market is right now - read them together. Then screen the whole market on the futures screener, watch real BTC liquidations stream in on the live liquidations feed, and rehearse any BTC idea at the live price with zero risk on the BTC paper-trading terminal before you commit real margin.
BTC data aggregated across major exchanges (deepest market shown). For information only - not financial advice.