Crypto liquidations on 17 Aug 2026
On 17 Aug 2026, Blockmetric recorded $41.4M of liquidations (4,316 orders) on Hyperliquid.
Period: 17 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC to 18 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC · final report, stored 5 Nov 2026, 07:03 UTC
Data coverage of this period is below our publishing threshold, so this report stays out of the feed and search engines.
Summary
Longs: $1.2M, shorts: $40.2M. Longs were 3% of the total.
The busiest hour was 17 Aug 2026, 17:00 UTC with $14.1M.
The largest single liquidation was a $10.3M BTC short on Hyperliquid.
The liquidation streams covered 0% of this day (collected since 2 Nov 2026, 15:15 UTC; gaps while the collector was stopped are not known).
Liquidations per hour · 24h
No hour of this day was covered by every liquidation stream, so no bar is drawn.
By exchange
By coin
Biggest liquidations
| # | Time (UTC) | Coin | Side | Exchange | Price | USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 Aug 2026, 17:21 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,325 | $10.3M |
| 2 | 17 Aug 2026, 18:23 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,571 | $8.3M |
| 3 | 17 Aug 2026, 15:38 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,076 | $1.7M |
| 4 | 17 Aug 2026, 17:20 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,267 | $1.3M |
| 5 | 17 Aug 2026, 18:23 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,561 | $1.1M |
| 6 | 17 Aug 2026, 06:49 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $63,679 | $608K |
| 7 | 17 Aug 2026, 06:49 UTC | ETH | short | Hyperliquid | $1,910 | $502K |
| 8 | 17 Aug 2026, 01:04 UTC | xyz:SILVER | short | Hyperliquid | $65.92 | $460K |
| 9 | 17 Aug 2026, 01:24 UTC | xyz:SILVER | short | Hyperliquid | $66.26 | $370K |
| 10 | 17 Aug 2026, 06:53 UTC | HYPE | short | Hyperliquid | $59.36 | $322K |
Whale moves
No position change of the tracked Hyperliquid wallets was stored for this day.
Funding extremes (average over the period)
Highest
- CASHCAT · Hyperliquid +135.0%
- XMR · Hyperliquid +35.9%
- FARTCOIN · Hyperliquid +23.8%
- ZRO · Hyperliquid +14.9%
- TAO · Hyperliquid +14.3%
Lowest
- MON · Hyperliquid −25.0%
- ADA · Hyperliquid −6.7%
- BTC · Hyperliquid −0.9%
- kPEPE · Hyperliquid −0.1%
- TRX · Hyperliquid +1.5%
Average APR over the period, markets with $10M or more average open interest.
Open interest changes (Hyperliquid)
Cluster hits (scoreboard)
No big liquidation cluster ($5M or more within 15 % of the price) was recorded in this day.
Security incidents
No verified incident in the hack database falls in this day.
Data as of 2026-11-05 07:03 UTC. Exchange liquidation streams publish only part of the liquidations, so these totals are a lower bound. Hyperliquid liquidations: tracked wallets only, each confirmed by Hyperliquid’s own liquidation fills. Facts from public data. Not investment advice.