Cryptocurrency liquidations exceed $150 billion in 2025, reports CoinGlass

not_your_keys · 2025-12-26T01:23:13+00:00

In 2025, cryptocurrency liquidations exceeded $150 billion, with Bitcoin reaching historic volatility. A record $19 billion was liquidated in a single day amid a price correction, highlighting the derivatives market's significance in price discovery and speculation.

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2025-12-26 01:23:13

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Source: Yellow Original Title: Cryptocurrency Liquidations Surpass $150 Billion in 2025, Reports CoinGlass

Original Link: https://yellow.com/es/news/las-liquidaciones-cripto-superan-los-150000-millones-de-ddollars-in-2025-reports-coinglass Cryptocurrency liquidations reached unprecedented levels in 2025, with total nominal values exceeding $150 billion across all exchanges. Bitcoin and other digital assets recorded average daily liquidations of between $400 million and $500 million.

What happened: record liquidations

According to a new annual analysis of the CoinGlass derivatives market, the derivatives market experienced its largest liquidation event in a single day in history on October 10, when the combined closing of short and long positions reached $19 billion during a sharp correction in Bitcoin’s price.

The cryptocurrency plummeted days after reaching a new all-time high above $126,000.

CoinGlass data suggests that the actual scale of the October liquidation event likely approached between $30 billion and $40 billion, considering the timing of platform disclosures and market maker feedback. Long positions accounted for approximately 85% to 90% of the liquidated derivatives bets during the event.

Most daily liquidations remained in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars throughout 2025, mainly reflecting routine margin adjustments and short-term position closures in high-leverage trading environments.

The year recorded a total derivatives trading volume of $85.70 trillion on centralized exchanges.

Why it matters: market structure

The October deleveraging event represented several multiples of the second-largest short squeeze by liquidations in the previous market cycle, according to CoinGlass analysis.

Trading volume surged to $748.3 billion on October 10, nearly triple the annual average of $264.5 billion.

The report indicated that derivatives trading became the central battleground for price discovery and leveraged speculation during market acceleration phases. Bitcoin is currently trading around $88,180, up more than 2% in the last week.

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AirdropHermit

· 18h ago

150,000 million liquidation, another bloody number. The leverage traders are about to cry and scream again.

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DataChief

· 18h ago

15 trillion USD liquidated? These leverage players are really ruthless.

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HashBard

· 18h ago

150B in liquidations... that's just the market whispering its darkest confessions, isn't it? the narrative arc we're living through reads less like bull run poetry & more like a greek tragedy where everyone's the protagonist of their own financial downfall. ngl the sentiment metrics are screaming but nobody's listening to the discord pulse anymore

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