Crypto liquidations on 21 Aug 2026
On 21 Aug 2026, Blockmetric recorded $197M of liquidations (19,474 orders) on Hyperliquid.
Period: 21 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC to 22 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC · final report, stored 5 Nov 2026, 07:05 UTC
Data coverage of this period is below our publishing threshold, so this report stays out of the feed and search engines.
Summary
Longs: $24.2M, shorts: $173M. Longs were 12% of the total.
The busiest hour was 21 Aug 2026, 08:00 UTC with $47.6M.
The largest single liquidation was a $9.3M 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 | 21 Aug 2026, 01:48 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $75,868 | $9.3M |
| 2 | 21 Aug 2026, 21:24 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $78,048 | $6.2M |
| 3 | 21 Aug 2026, 00:18 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $73,600 | $5.9M |
| 4 | 21 Aug 2026, 08:58 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $79,326 | $5.6M |
| 5 | 21 Aug 2026, 01:47 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $75,694 | $4.5M |
| 6 | 21 Aug 2026, 07:16 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $76,950 | $4.5M |
| 7 | 21 Aug 2026, 01:47 UTC | ETH | short | Hyperliquid | $2,376 | $3.1M |
| 8 | 21 Aug 2026, 07:16 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $76,989 | $2.7M |
| 9 | 21 Aug 2026, 08:46 UTC | ETH | short | Hyperliquid | $2,425 | $2.3M |
| 10 | 21 Aug 2026, 08:18 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $77,247 | $2.2M |
Whale moves
No position change of the tracked Hyperliquid wallets was stored for this day.
Funding extremes (average over the period)
Highest
- CASHCAT · Hyperliquid +218.6%
- XMR · Hyperliquid +150.8%
- FARTCOIN · Hyperliquid +95.8%
- ZEC · Hyperliquid +93.7%
- LIT · Hyperliquid +90.7%
Lowest
- WLFI · Hyperliquid +4.7%
- PAXG · Hyperliquid +10.4%
- BTC · Hyperliquid +11.0%
- ETH · Hyperliquid +13.4%
- XPL · Hyperliquid +16.6%
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 07:05 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.