Andrew Tate was trending on June 18, 2026, but not for reasons he would welcome. The influencer and social media personality suffered a near-total wipeout of his active trading capital on @Hy
Andrew Tate was trending on June 18, 2026, but not for reasons he would welcome. The influencer and social media personality suffered a near-total wipeout of his active trading capital on @HyperliquidX, the decentralized perpetual futures exchange, after eight forced liquidations within a single 24-hour window.
According to on-chain data tracked by Arkham Intelligence, Tate deposited $100,000 and opened a long position of $3.8 million in $BTC, which was subsequently liquidated. He then shorted $1 million in Bitcoin, which was also liquidated. The cycle repeated across multiple positions throughout the day. By the end of the run, Tate's Hyperliquid account held only about $14,219.
Bitcoin's price fell from roughly $66,400 to about $64,000 over the same window, in the aftermath of the Fed's June policy meeting. The broader market context was brutal: crypto analysis firm CoinGlass noted that over $400 million in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated in that timeframe, with roughly $280 million from longs, and nearly 100,000 individual accounts were wiped out across exchanges.
This latest session is not an isolated incident. Tate's combined losses are now almost $890,000, and have been on this downward trajectory since December last year.Tate has built one of the most closely watched liquidation records on Hyperliquid, the decentralized perpetual futures exchange.
The episode has renewed comparisons to James Wynn, whose leveraged trading on Hyperliquid became one of crypto's most-watched sagas in 2025. In May 2025, Wynn initiated a series of large leveraged Bitcoin long positions on Hyperliquid, with his notional size reaching $1.269 billion (11,588 BTC) at 40x leverage. While at one point showing $39 million in unrealized gains, the trade ultimately contributed to over $100 million in total losses, culminating in the near-complete liquidation of his Hyperliquid account by the end of May.
Wynn's story did not end there. He returned to Hyperliquid multiple times, depositing fresh capital and repeating the same pattern of high-leverage trades, each ending in liquidation.Arkham Intelligence data eventually confirmed his account balance had cratered from $100 million down to $900, with his peak notional exposure once reaching $1.26 billion.
The structural similarities are difficult to ignore. Both traders have used extreme leverage on $BTC positions through @HyperliquidX, both have treated each liquidation as motivation to reload and re-enter, and both have accumulated losses that dwarf their individual deposits. The key difference, for now, is scale. Tate's cumulative losses across his 2025 to 2026 trading cycle sit at roughly $700,000 to $890,000. Wynn, at his peak exposure, was operating in the billions.
Whether Tate continues down the same path remains to be seen. What the on-chain record shows is a pattern of high-conviction, undisciplined leverage that has so far produced only one consistent result.
Sources:CCN: Andrew Tate Liquidated 8 Times in 16 HoursCoinDesk: Hyperliquid Whale James Wynn Fully Liquidated After $16.8B in Trading VolumePresto Research: How To Lose $85MM: James Wynn's $1.27B BTC Long
