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Ether-Led Crypto Liquidations Top $2.5 Billion in 24 Hours, Including $222 Million Single Wipeout

Thin weekend liquidity combined with heavy leverage triggered cascading forced exits across major crypto derivatives venues.

Overview

  • Total forced closures over the past day reached nearly $2.6 billion, marking one of the largest liquidation waves of the cycle.
  • Ether absorbed the biggest damage with more than $1.15 billion in ETH positions wiped and an intraday slide of up to 17%.
  • A single ETH-USD position worth $222.65 million was liquidated on Hyperliquid, the largest individual loss of the episode.
  • Hyperliquid logged about $1.09 billion in liquidations, with Bybit at roughly $574.8 million and Binance near $258 million.
  • Long bets dominated the washout with about $2.42 billion of $2.58 billion in losses, as 434,945 traders were forced out of positions.