Today, a single share sale triggered millions of dollars in liquidations on Hyperliquid.
At 11:00 pm UTC on July 27, $SKHYNIX suffered a flash crash on Hyperliquid, falling roughly 20% within seconds before rapidly recovering.
The entire cascade began with a single share sold during the opening of South Korea’s Nextrade pre-market session.
At 8:00 am local time, an apparent order mistake caused one SK Hynix share to execute at ₩1,272,000, exactly at the daily lower limit and 29.96% below the previous close. Because there were almost no resting buy orders at the opening, that one-share trade became the first reference price.
The stock recovered toward ₩1.7 million within approximately two minutes, but the bad print had already reached the oracle used by Hyperliquid.
Around 4 seconds after the NXT session opened, the SKHYNIX oracle price was updated from $1,131.40 to $954.99, a 15.6% drop.
Liquidations began approximately 2.7 seconds later. The resulting cascade pushed Hyperliquid executions as low as $900.
In total:
-> 960 long accounts were liquidated.
-> $57.4M in positions were liquidated.
-> Those traders realized approximately $17.3M in losses.
-> The backstop subsequently triggered ADL against profitable shorts, realizing approximately $10.8M in profits across 100 accounts.
The main losers were:
-$2.05M
-$1.37M
-$1.31M
-$1.02M
The largest profits realized through ADL were:
$2.55M
$2.22M
$2.19M