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Over $225 million in crypto positions liquidated in a single hour

Crypto traders lost more than $225 million in leveraged positions in a single hour on November 13, 2026, as a sharp market move set off a wave of forced closures across major exchanges.

The bulls took most of the hit. Long positions made up $176.6 million of the total, while short positions accounted for $49.3 million.

What happened in the liquidation spike
The spike was captured by real-time liquidation trackers around 03:09 UTC and picked up by major crypto outlets shortly afterward. The speed of the event points to a fast swing in prices that knocked over leveraged positions one after another.
Not every tracker landed on the same figure. At least one platform put the hourly total closer to $215 million, though it showed a similar balance between longs and shorts.

Small discrepancies like this are normal. Different trackers pull from different exchange feeds, and not every venue reports liquidations in the same way or at the same speed.

The activity was concentrated on familiar names. Gate.io, Binance, and Bybit were among the exchanges involved during the spike, and those platforms routinely see heavy liquidation volume, particularly in Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts.

The hourly burst also did not happen in a vacuum. It landed on top of elevated liquidation activity across the broader 24-hour window, where totals climbed into the hundreds of millions of dollars, with Bitcoin and Ethereum typically leading the pack.

How liquidations work, and why they snowball
In crypto futures and perpetual contracts, traders post a slice of collateral, called margin, to control a much larger position. Exchanges require that collateral to stay above a minimum threshold known as the maintenance margin.

When prices move against a trader and their margin dips below that line, the exchange steps in. It closes the position automatically, whether the trader likes it or not.
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