Crypto liquidations on 18 Aug 2026
On 18 Aug 2026, Blockmetric recorded $45.4M of liquidations (5,683 orders) on Hyperliquid.
Period: 18 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC to 19 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: $12.8M, shorts: $32.6M. Longs were 28% of the total.
The busiest hour was 18 Aug 2026, 14:00 UTC with $33.1M.
The largest single liquidation was a $23.4M 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 | 18 Aug 2026, 14:27 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,889 | $23.4M |
| 2 | 18 Aug 2026, 14:23 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,664 | $862K |
| 3 | 18 Aug 2026, 14:26 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,850 | $657K |
| 4 | 18 Aug 2026, 14:27 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,922 | $311K |
| 5 | 18 Aug 2026, 05:29 UTC | ETH | long | Hyperliquid | $1,895 | $296K |
| 6 | 18 Aug 2026, 05:29 UTC | WLD | long | Hyperliquid | $0.3217 | $293K |
| 7 | 18 Aug 2026, 18:09 UTC | xyz:LITE | long | Hyperliquid | $864.95 | $290K |
| 8 | 18 Aug 2026, 14:26 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,828 | $253K |
| 9 | 18 Aug 2026, 05:36 UTC | ETH | long | Hyperliquid | $1,892 | $236K |
| 10 | 18 Aug 2026, 05:37 UTC | WLD | long | Hyperliquid | $0.3172 | $205K |
Whale moves
No position change of the tracked Hyperliquid wallets was stored for this day.
Funding extremes (average over the period)
Highest
- CASHCAT · Hyperliquid +39.1%
- XMR · Hyperliquid +24.4%
- VVV · Hyperliquid +15.5%
- FARTCOIN · Hyperliquid +14.1%
- GRAM · Hyperliquid +11.5%
Lowest
- WLD · Hyperliquid −25.2%
- AVAX · Hyperliquid −3.9%
- TRX · Hyperliquid −2.4%
- LINK · Hyperliquid −2.4%
- ADA · Hyperliquid −2.0%
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
| Day | Protocol | Type | Status | Reported loss |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Aug 2026 | GalaChain | exploit | ongoing | approximately 2.0 billion GALA and roughly 37 other tokens |
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.