Live cross-exchange liquidations across the perpetual-futures market — how much leverage was force-closed, and which side got hit. A running read on where traders are getting squeezed.
Cross-exchange aggregates covering major derivatives venues · 420 coins tracked. Full-universe per-coin coverage is available on the API (Pro); historical liquidation series on Pro Plus.
Force-closes push price further the same way.
A liquidation is a leveraged position the exchange force-closes when margin runs out. A long liquidation is a forced sell (price dropped, longs wiped); a short liquidation is a forced buy (price rose, shorts squeezed).
Because forced closes push price further the same direction, they cascade — which is why liquidation surges frequently line up with short-term exhaustion and local reversals.
curl -H "X-API-Key: cdk_live_yourkey" \ "https://cryptodataapi.com/api/v1/market-intelligence/liquidations?exchange=all"
Full-universe coverage and per-coin liquidation maps are available on Pro; historical snapshots on Pro Plus. See the liquidations endpoint docs.
Liquidation history is the clearest example of why capture beats scraping: no exchange serves it retroactively. Ours exists because we have been recording it since March 2026 — and for Hyperliquid, whose liquidations settle on-chain, every individual fill is captured exactly rather than inferred from open-interest drops.
curl -H "X-API-Key: cdk_live_yourkey" \ "https://cryptodataapi.com/api/v1/backtesting/hl-liquidations?coin=BTC&start=2026-07-23&limit=5000"
The merged multi-venue series begins 30 Mar 2026 and cannot be extended backwards — OKX and Bybit publish no liquidation history at all. Hyperliquid is the exception: its liquidations are on-chain, so deeper history is recoverable from node data.