EVA Terminal

Market over the day · October 17, 2026

Over the day $151.2M of positions were liquidated on the terminal's coins: longs $130.8M, shorts $20.3M. $981.1M was moved to exchanges and $911.9M out of them: a net inflow of $69.2M. BTC held on exchanges' published addresses ended the day at 812,794 BTC, +100 BTC over the day. Spot BTC ETFs in the report for October 16, 2026: −$82.4M, led by IBIT (−$71.8M). The biggest gainer was SAND (+10.52%), the biggest loser was STRK (−13.04%).

The day in brief

  1. Liquidations 1.7× below the average over 7 d
  2. Heaviest liquidation hour — 21:00 UTC, $68.6M — mostly longs
  3. BTC −0.16% over the day, range $80,811–$81,718
  4. Net inflow to exchanges $69.2M

Facts from the terminal’s data and comparisons with our own history; no conclusions about what comes next.

BTC and ETH price

BTC

−0.16%over the day
$81,447end of day
$80,811–$81,718range
high $81,704 · low $81,101 (hourly)
heaviest liquidation hour, 21:00largest transfer to an exchange: $9.7M, 02:38
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ETH

−0.87%over the day
$2,402end of day
$2,361–$2,441range
high $2,439 · low $2,380 (hourly)
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Source: the terminal’s minute archive, price at the start of each hour; range — by minute · ● heaviest liquidation hour, 21:00 · ● largest transfer to an exchange: $9.7M, 02:38 · day 2026-10-17 00:00–24:00 UTC.

Liquidations

$151.2Mtotal over the day
$130.8Mlongs liquidated
$20.3Mshorts liquidated
×0.59vs the 7-day average
hourly max $68.6M
00:00 · longs $1.5M00:00 · shorts $903K01:00 · longs $21K01:00 · shorts $141K02:00 · longs $460K02:00 · shorts $699K03:00 · longs $123K03:00 · shorts $2.4M04:00 · longs $72K04:00 · shorts $276K05:00 · longs $68K05:00 · shorts $131K06:00 · longs $91K06:00 · shorts $227K07:00 · longs $99K07:00 · shorts $533K08:00 · longs $274K08:00 · shorts $106K09:00 · longs $114K09:00 · shorts $508K10:00 · longs $641K10:00 · shorts $729K11:00 · longs $328K11:00 · shorts $410K12:00 · longs $2.7M12:00 · shorts $366K13:00 · longs $951K13:00 · shorts $116K14:00 · longs $363K14:00 · shorts $234K15:00 · longs $4.5M15:00 · shorts $60K16:00 · longs $4.6M16:00 · shorts $371K17:00 · longs $1.4M17:00 · shorts $29K18:00 · longs $65K18:00 · shorts $1.2M19:00 · longs $19K19:00 · shorts $363K20:00 · longs $50K20:00 · shorts $188K21:00 · longs $66.6M21:00 · shorts $1.9M22:00 · longs $113K22:00 · shorts $642K23:00 · longs $203K23:00 · shorts $271K
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■ longs · ■ shorts · by hour UTC, liquidations from $5,000 from the minute archive

Coins with the most liquidations

ETH$42.7M
longs $38.4M
shorts $4.2M
BTC$16.9M
longs $14.7M
shorts $2.2M
SOL$5.7M
longs $4.8M
shorts $903K
ZEC$5.2M
longs $3.9M
shorts $1.3M
TIA$3.5M
longs $1.4M
shorts $2.0M
XRP$3.3M
longs $3.1M
shorts $161K

By exchange

Binance$69.2M
OKX$33.0M
Bybit$19.5M
Gate$19.3M
Bitget$10.1M
Kraken$138K

Comparison — with the liquidation total from the minute archive over the previous 7 d (average $165.7M): the same source on both sides.

Source: liquidation streams of Bybit, Gate, Kraken, OKX, Binance, Bitget for the terminal's coins (Binance and Bitget — at most one per second per coin, smaller ones in the same second are not visible; OKX — the exchange's liquidation history) (coins with liquidations this day: 135) · day 2026-10-17 00:00–24:00 UTC. What liquidations are · without Hyperliquid

Exchange money

$981.1Mto exchanges
$911.9Mfrom exchanges
+$69.2Mnet
Binance+$227.0M
Bitfinex−$158.1M
Bybit+$324K

■ to the exchange · ■ from the exchange · right — the venue’s net

Exchanges: to and from

AmountBTCDirectionVenueTime, UTC
$9.7M119to an exchangeBinance02:38
$8.5M104from an exchangeBinance06:46
$7.9M97to an exchangeBinance10:43
$7.6M93to an exchangeBinance14:51
$7.5M92to an exchangeBinance18:48

Transfers — via exchanges’ published addresses (BTC — our own Bitcoin node), from $1M; the other side is an unknown holder: we do not use third-party labels.

Source: confirmed transfers from $1M to and from addresses the exchanges published themselves (BTC — our own Bitcoin node; ETH, USDT, USDC — Etherscan); exchange-to-exchange and internal moves are not inflow; networks with transfers this day: BTC, ETH · day 2026-10-17 00:00–24:00 UTC.

Derivatives: OI and funding

$57.07Bmarket OI at end of day
−1.55%OI over the day
+0.0047%funding per 8 h, OI-weighted

Largest OI increase

SAND+70.75%
SPX+7.09%
HBAR+5.33%
EIGEN+1.67%
WLFI+0.76%

Largest OI decrease

STRK−19.53%
PYTH−17.21%
ZK−15.54%
TIA−14.36%
OP−9.02%

Source: the terminal’s minute archive, OI in $ across all venues at both ends of the day; funding — the OI-weighted average of hourly readings.

Stablecoins

USDT: minted − burned$0
USDC: minted − burned−$31.0M
Into exchanges$206.3M
Out of exchanges$359.8M

Source: USDT and USDC supply on Ethereum (Etherscan; other networks are not included), transfers from $1M to exchanges’ published addresses · day 2026-10-17 00:00–24:00 UTC.

Bitcoin ETFs

Day total in the report−$82.4M
Largest fundIBIT −$71.8M

Source: TFTC (open dataset, CC BY 4.0); report for October 16, 2026 — a US trading day, published after the close.

Off-exchange whales

Off-exchange

AmountBTCDirectionTime, UTC
$220.5M2,714off-exchange17:28
$114.7M1,413off-exchange23:35
$77.4M949off-exchange21:00
$70.1M860off-exchange10:09
$69.8M857off-exchange03:30

Chain hops (output spent on further) are not counted; we do not know or name the holder.

Calendar

That day

No major events in the calendar.

The next day

No major events in the calendar.

Source: the «Macro» tab calendar, medium and high importance events (● — high) and holidays, UTC time. No forecasts here.

Coins of the day

Top gainers

SAND+10.52%
RSR+7.70%
SPX+5.37%
HBAR+2.07%
GRAM+0.44%

Top losers

STRK−13.04%
ZK−9.32%
ZRO−8.98%
PYTH−8.36%
FIL−7.79%

Source: the terminal’s minute archive, the first and last price of the day for 135 coins.