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Join us on DiscordWhere leveraged positions would be force-closed, and how much money sits at each level. Every cell is built from real Hyperliquid positions and the liquidation price Hyperliquid itself reports for them, not from estimated leverage. Longs that liquidate below the price are red; shorts that liquidate above it are green.
Every leveraged position has a liquidation price: the level at which the exchange closes it because the trader's margin can no longer cover the loss. A liquidation heatmap plots where those prices sit across the market and how much money is behind each one.
Longs liquidate below the current price, so a dense red band underneath is fuel for a sell-off: if price falls into it, the forced selling can push price into the next band. Shorts liquidate above, so a dense green band overhead can fuel a squeeze. Traders watch the largest clusters because price reaching one can set off a burst of forced orders that extends the move.
Centralized exchanges do not publish their customers' positions, so liquidation heatmaps built on their data have to estimate where liquidations sit, usually from price, open interest and assumed leverage. Hyperliquid runs its order book on its own blockchain, and every account's margin state is public.
For every account with at least $100,000 of account value, we read each open position's liquidation price as Hyperliquid computes it, along with its size and side. Each cell above is the sum of those real positions in a 0.5% slice of the mark price. The same data is archived every 5 minutes, so the map's history can be backtested.
bins_directional view leaves them out.This page shows positions that have not been liquidated yet. For liquidations that already happened, Crypto Liquidations has 1h, 4h, 12h and 24h long and short totals per coin across exchanges, and the Hyperliquid liquidation fill tape lists every Hyperliquid liquidation fill as it happens.
Related views of the same positions: Hyperliquid gamma exposure isolates market-maker liquidation levels, and the Crypto Whale Radar shows which way the large accounts lean.
The live liquidation ladder for one coin: 0.5% bins out to ±50% of the mark, a view without market makers (bins_directional), a split by account class and the nearest clusters above and below the price.
Long dollars below and short dollars above the mark within 0.5, 1, 2, 3 and 5%, per coin, every 5 minutes or hourly, from 2026-06-26. Split by trader type and leverage.
The full archived map for every coin, one snapshot every 5 minutes. This page reads the same snapshots.
Liquidations that actually happened: every Hyperliquid liquidation fill with coin, side, price, size and method.
curl -H "X-API-Key: cdk_live_yourkey" \ "https://cryptodataapi.com/api/v1/quant/positioning/ladder?symbol=BTC"
A liquidation heatmap shows the prices at which open leveraged positions would be force-closed, and how much money sits at each price. Bright bands are clusters. If price reaches one, the exchange closes those positions at market, which can push price further in the same direction.
Each row is a coin and each cell is a 0.5% slice of price around the current mark, out to 5% on either side. Cells left of the centre line hold long positions that are liquidated if price falls into them. Cells to the right hold shorts that are liquidated if price rises. A brighter cell holds more dollars, scaled within that coin's row. The ladders below the heatmap list the largest clusters with their actual prices.
Centralized exchanges do not publish their customers' positions, so heatmaps built on their data have to estimate where liquidations sit, usually from price, open interest and assumed leverage. Hyperliquid runs on its own blockchain and its account state is public, so this map reads the actual liquidation price of every open position held by accounts with at least $100,000 of account value. It covers Hyperliquid only, not Binance, Bybit or OKX.
Positions are re-read every few minutes and the full map is saved as a snapshot every 5 minutes. This free page shows the newest snapshot that is at least 30 minutes old. The API serves the live map and the 5-minute history.
No. A level is the price at which a position would be liquidated if nothing else changed. Traders add margin, resize or close positions, and a cross-margined position's liquidation price moves with the rest of its account, so clusters shift between snapshots. Treat them as zones where forced orders are likely, not as guaranteed triggers.
This page shows liquidations that have not happened yet: open positions and the prices where they would be closed. The Crypto Liquidations page shows liquidations that already happened, as 1-hour to 24-hour long and short totals per coin, and the Hyperliquid fill tape lists every individual Hyperliquid liquidation fill.
Yes. GET /api/v1/quant/positioning/ladder?symbol=BTC returns the live liquidation ladder for one coin across the whole tracked universe. GET /api/v1/backtesting/liquidation-density returns the long and short dollars within 0.5% to 5% of the mark as a time series from 2026-06-26, and GET /api/v1/backtesting/snapshots with data_type=liquidation_map returns the archived 5-minute maps. All three need a Pro Plus key.