Crypto Liquidations on July 26, 2026
$180.1M in leveraged crypto positions was liquidated on July 26, 2026 (UTC), across 49,278 individual events — shorts took most of the damage, squeezed on the way up. Measured directly from MarginPad's multi-exchange liquidation feed.
The biggest liquidation of the day
A single ETH short worth $8.6M was force-closed on binance at 22:00 UTC, with the price at $1,934. The median liquidation that day was just $226 and 95% of events were under $9K — liquidation pain is always concentrated in a handful of oversized positions.
When it happened
The heaviest hour was 22:00-23:00 UTC with $63.9M liquidated — liquidation cascades cluster, they don't spread evenly.
By coin
| Coin | Liquidated | Events | Side split |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. ETH | $77.6M | 4,449 | 4% long |
| 2. BTC | $31.1M | 2,849 | 10% long |
| 3. XYZ:BRENTOIL | $9.7M | 810 | 12% long |
| 4. SOL | $5.7M | 786 | 6% long |
| 5. XYZ:CL | $5.2M | 864 | 51% long |
| 6. EUL | $3.8M | 3,880 | 33% long |
| 7. 1000SHIB | $3.5M | 908 | 40% long |
| 8. CL | $3.1M | 240 | 93% long |
| 9. BZ | $2.7M | 129 | 96% long |
| 10. DEXE | $2.5M | 3,224 | 56% long |
By exchange
| Exchange | Liquidated | Events |
|---|---|---|
| binance | $89.5M | 24,610 |
| hyperliquid | $27.1M | 5,918 |
| gate | $22.5M | 2,051 |
| bybit | $21.9M | 9,288 |
| okx | $12.7M | 6,277 |
| htx | $5.3M | 844 |
| dydx | $321K | 217 |
| binance-coin | $307K | 37 |
| bitfinex | $271K | 29 |
| bitmex | $15K | 7 |
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