Exchange incidents, and where the whale money stood.
Hacks, outages and liquidation cascades at large venues, each with the Whale Tide and the tracked whales on Hyperliquid in the days before and after. A row shows what stood before and after, never what caused it.
Mercado Bitcoin
Mercado Bitcoin incident
Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil’s largest crypto exchange, confirmed a security incident overnight and paused deposits and withdrawals. Hypernative estimates about $40M left its wallets on at least ten chains. The exchange says clients lost nothing.
SourcesBeInCrypto, 2 Nov 2026
- Whale Tide
- 2829
- Whale money
- $7.12B$7.27B
The close before, then a week after
Binance
Binance hack
About $6.3B left Binance hot wallets on several chains, the largest exchange hack on record. Binance paused withdrawals.
- Whale Tide
- 2925
- Whale money
- $7.72B$7.30B
The close before, then a week after
Bitget
Bitget hack
About $387.5M moved from some Bitget wallets to addresses an attacker controls, by Bitget’s count. Bitget paused withdrawals and said its protection fund covers the loss.
Sourcescrypto.news, 26 Sept 2026
The Tide around these days comes with Pro. What Pro adds
- Whale Tide
- 2726
- Whale money
- $8.69B$8.42B
The close before, then a week after
trade[XYZ]
SK hynix oracle drop on trade[XYZ]
A pre-market print at the daily lower limit entered the oracle of the SK hynix perpetual. About 960 long accounts were liquidated and trade.xyz announced refunds.
The Tide around these days comes with Pro.
- Whale Tide
- 3737
- Whale money
- $5.59B$5.05B
The close before, then a week after
Hyperliquid
Record liquidations and auto-deleveraging
After a US tariff announcement, about $19B of crypto positions were liquidated across venues within 24 hours, $10.31B of them on Hyperliquid. Hyperliquid ran cross-margin auto-deleveraging.
The Tide around these days comes with Pro.
- Whale Tide
- 3031
- Whale money
- $8.69B$4.32B
The close before, then a week after
Hyperliquid
Hyperliquid order delays
Orders were delayed for about 37 minutes, 14:10 to 14:47 UTC, while the Hyperliquid chain itself ran normally. Affected users received about $1.99M in refunds.
The Tide around these days comes with Pro.
- Whale Tide
- 3034
- Whale money
- $8.94B$6.70B
The close before, then a week after
Hyperliquid
JELLY delisted on Hyperliquid
A large JELLY short passed to Hyperliquid’s HLP vault during a price surge. Validators delisted the perpetual and settled it at $0.0095.
No daily close of the Whale Tide for these days.
Hyperliquid
HLP loss on a large ETH long
A trader withdrew margin from an ETH long of about $300M. Hyperliquid’s HLP vault took over the liquidation and lost about $4M, and maximum leverage fell to 40x for BTC and 25x for ETH.
No daily close of the Whale Tide for these days.
Bybit
Bybit hack
About $1.5B in ETH and staked ETH left a Bybit cold wallet during a transfer. The FBI attributed the theft to North Korea.
No daily close of the Whale Tide for these days.
The Whale Tide counts directional whales with a record across all markets, at the daily close at 00:00 UTC. Whale money is every tracked whale position of $1M or more. Not financial advice.