Crypto Liquidations on August 3, 2026
$192.2M in leveraged crypto positions was liquidated on August 3, 2026 (UTC), across 54,623 individual events — the damage split fairly evenly between longs and shorts. Measured directly from MarginPad's multi-exchange liquidation feed.
The biggest liquidation of the day
A single BTC short worth $7.3M was force-closed on binance at 13:52 UTC, with the price at $63,142. The median liquidation that day was just $250 and 95% of events were under $10K — liquidation pain is always concentrated in a handful of oversized positions.
When it happened
The heaviest hour was 08:00-09:00 UTC with $40.6M liquidated — liquidation cascades cluster, they don't spread evenly.
By coin
| Coin | Liquidated | Events | Side split |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. BTC | $73.9M | 4,395 | 62% long |
| 2. ETH | $30.4M | 3,107 | 69% long |
| 3. SNDK | $11.6M | 2,110 | 39% long |
| 4. SPCX | $4.5M | 681 | 49% long |
| 5. BLESS | $4.0M | 4,343 | 56% long |
| 6. SOL | $3.8M | 692 | 63% long |
| 7. SOXL | $3.7M | 587 | 73% long |
| 8. XYZ:SPCX | $2.6M | 509 | 57% long |
| 9. MU | $2.3M | 534 | 67% long |
| 10. XYZ:MSFT | $2.1M | 238 | 26% long |
By exchange
| Exchange | Liquidated | Events |
|---|---|---|
| binance | $91.0M | 28,724 |
| gate | $28.7M | 1,696 |
| hyperliquid | $28.2M | 6,792 |
| okx | $23.1M | 8,747 |
| bybit | $16.5M | 8,059 |
| htx | $4.0M | 413 |
| bitfinex | $330K | 31 |
| binance-coin | $269K | 94 |
| bitmex | $78K | 16 |
| dydx | $74K | 51 |
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