Crypto liquidations on 20 Aug 2026
On 20 Aug 2026, Blockmetric recorded $116M of liquidations (12,453 orders) on Hyperliquid.
Period: 20 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC to 21 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC · final report, stored 5 Nov 2026, 07:04 UTC
Data coverage of this period is below our publishing threshold, so this report stays out of the feed and search engines.
Summary
Longs: $19.4M, shorts: $96.6M. Longs were 17% of the total.
The busiest hour was 20 Aug 2026, 08:00 UTC with $62.6M.
The largest single liquidation was a $17.2M 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 | 20 Aug 2026, 08:39 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $71,527 | $17.2M |
| 2 | 20 Aug 2026, 08:39 UTC | ETH | long | Hyperliquid | $2,276 | $8.5M |
| 3 | 20 Aug 2026, 08:11 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $71,083 | $6.3M |
| 4 | 20 Aug 2026, 06:45 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $69,814 | $5.6M |
| 5 | 20 Aug 2026, 08:13 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $71,279 | $4M |
| 6 | 20 Aug 2026, 08:17 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $71,499 | $3.2M |
| 7 | 20 Aug 2026, 15:51 UTC | ETH | short | Hyperliquid | $2,329 | $2.3M |
| 8 | 20 Aug 2026, 08:14 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $71,322 | $1.3M |
| 9 | 20 Aug 2026, 16:43 UTC | ETH | short | Hyperliquid | $2,360 | $915K |
| 10 | 20 Aug 2026, 15:04 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $72,604 | $804K |
Whale moves
No position change of the tracked Hyperliquid wallets was stored for this day.
Funding extremes (average over the period)
Highest
- CASHCAT · Hyperliquid +154.2%
- VVV · Hyperliquid +47.7%
- XMR · Hyperliquid +45.3%
- ASTER · Hyperliquid +36.3%
- LIT · Hyperliquid +35.7%
Lowest
- WLFI · Hyperliquid −17.3%
- PAXG · Hyperliquid +7.8%
- ONDO · Hyperliquid +8.6%
- LINK · Hyperliquid +9.7%
- TRX · Hyperliquid +10.1%
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 07:04 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.