The week in liquidations · 17–23 Aug 2026
In the week of 17–23 Aug 2026, Blockmetric recorded $861M of liquidations (94,543 orders) on Hyperliquid.
Period: 17 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC to 24 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTC · final report, stored 5 Nov 2026, 06:46 UTC
Data coverage of this period is below our publishing threshold, so this report stays out of the feed and search engines.
Summary
Longs: $152M, shorts: $708M. Longs were 18% of the total.
The busiest hour was 19 Aug 2026, 15:00 UTC with $136M.
The largest single liquidation was a $23.4M BTC short on Hyperliquid.
The liquidation streams covered 0% of this week (collected since 2 Nov 2026, 15:15 UTC; gaps while the collector was stopped are not known).
Liquidations per day
No day of this week 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 | 19 Aug 2026, 20:51 UTC | ETH | short | Hyperliquid | $2,212 | $22.1M |
| 3 | 19 Aug 2026, 13:30 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $65,082 | $18.7M |
| 4 | 20 Aug 2026, 08:39 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $71,527 | $17.2M |
| 5 | 19 Aug 2026, 14:06 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $65,262 | $15M |
| 6 | 19 Aug 2026, 15:27 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $67,700 | $12.2M |
| 7 | 19 Aug 2026, 14:17 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $65,441 | $12.1M |
| 8 | 17 Aug 2026, 17:21 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $64,325 | $10.3M |
| 9 | 19 Aug 2026, 14:53 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $65,638 | $9.7M |
| 10 | 21 Aug 2026, 01:48 UTC | BTC | short | Hyperliquid | $75,868 | $9.3M |
Whale moves
No position change of the tracked Hyperliquid wallets was stored for this week.
Funding extremes (average over the period)
Highest
- CASHCAT · Hyperliquid +92.1%
- XMR · Hyperliquid +71.6%
- VVV · Hyperliquid +49.2%
- FARTCOIN · Hyperliquid +41.4%
- ZEC · Hyperliquid +41.2%
Lowest
- WLFI · Hyperliquid +4.9%
- BTC · Hyperliquid +8.1%
- PAXG · Hyperliquid +9.3%
- ETH · Hyperliquid +9.6%
- MON · Hyperliquid +9.9%
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 week.
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 06:46 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.