Bitcoin fell below $81,000 to $80,828, down 2.73% as of October 8, 2026, while liquidations across the cryptocurrency market exceeded $1.1 billion. The scale of liquidations points to leveraged positions being forcibly closed amid price swings, potentially adding to short-term buying or selling pressure. The available figures do not specify the measurement period, platforms or long-short split, so they do not show which side accounted for most of the liquidations.
Bitcoin slips below $81,000
The market page listed Bitcoin at $80,828, a 2.73% decline from the previous reading. The key move was its drop below the $81,000 level. The data provided no daily high or low, trading volume or earlier support levels, leaving the decline’s significance over a longer time frame unclear.
Major tokens also fall
Other crypto assets listed on the same page were lower. Ethereum traded at $2,421.18, down 4.91%; Solana was at $106.77, down 8.17%; XRP stood at $1.33, down 6.47%; and Dogecoin was at $0.082, down 7.26%. Pepe fell 8.39% to $0.0000037, Render dropped 11.46% to $1.79, and Worldcoin declined 9.77% to $0.46. The moves show that the sell-off extended beyond Bitcoin to both larger and smaller tokens.
The page also listed Verse at $0.0000036, down 4.47%; Gram, formerly Toncoin, at $1.36, down 4.73%; and TRON at $0.33, down 0.75%. Losses varied across tokens. The available data did not include trading volumes, the start and end times for the price changes, or an asset-by-asset breakdown of liquidations.
What the $1.1 billion liquidation figure shows—and doesn’t
More than $1.1 billion in liquidations indicates that leveraged traders faced a substantial wave of forced position closures during the market decline. Liquidations can turn existing positions into automatic market orders, potentially amplifying price moves. But the aggregate figure alone does not reveal the share of long versus short positions, or whether liquidations were concentrated in a particular token or trading platform.
At the quoted market snapshot, Bitcoin was below $81,000 and several major tokens were also down. The liquidation figure’s measurement period, methodology and position breakdown were not disclosed; assessing the extent of deleveraging would require those details alongside subsequent price and trading-volume data.