Over $876M in long positions liquidated from crypto market in 24 hours

Over $876 million in long crypto positions was wiped out in the past 24 hours. Traders who bet on prices going up got a very expensive lesson in gravity. The flush hit on October 15, 2026, and it landed almost entirely on one side of the trade. Bulls carrying leverage were the ones forced out, while short sellers mostly watched from a safe distance. What got liquidated, and where The headline number is roughly $876 million in long positions closed over a single day. A separate tally for October 15 put total liquidations at $850.1 million, with $718 million of that coming from longs. The two counts differ because different trackers aggregate exchanges and time windows differently. Both point the same way: this was a one-sided bloodbath for leveraged buyers. At the peak of the selloff, long positions made up between 88% and 92% of all liquidations. Ethereum took the bigger hit by notional value. ETH liquidations came in somewhere between approximately $149 million and $265 million, depending on the data source. Bitcoin was not far behind. BTC saw about $101 million to $212 million in liquidations over the same stretch. Solana and a range of smaller tokens rounded out the damage. The ...