Estimated liquidation levels across exchanges, built from open-interest changes, price action and taker flow on our own data — brighter cells mark price zones where more leveraged positions would be liquidated. These are model estimates (leverage cohorts at 5x/10x/20x/25x/50x/100x), not exchange-published figures; dollar values are estimated notional at risk, anchored to open interest. Updates every minute.
The heatmap maps estimated DOT liquidation levels around the current price of $1.18, built from open-interest changes and price action across exchanges and anchored to open interest. Cluster sizes are model estimates — upper bounds, not exchange-published figures.
The Polkadot liquidation heatmap — the DOT heatmap, or DOT heat map — plots estimated liquidation levels for DOT futures by price and time, so you can see where leveraged longs and shorts would be forced out.
Polkadot's derivative market is quieter than its market-cap rank once suggested, and that changes how its heatmap reads. With moderate open interest spread over long holding periods, DOT zones are fewer but more meaningful — each visible shelf represents a real accumulation of patient leverage rather than day-trading churn.
DOT has also spent long stretches in downtrends, which breeds a specific structure: layered short clusters above price left by trend-followers pressing the move. When sentiment turns, those layers unwind in sequence — the classic short-squeeze staircase — and the map shows how much fuel remains above at each step.
Layered short liquidation levels from positions opened at successively lower prices during a downtrend. A rally burns through them in order, and each cleared layer can add forced buying to the next.
It just means little leveraged inventory currently exists — fewer positions to liquidate, so fewer zones. Structure returns whenever open interest expands again.
Support and resistance describe past price behavior; liquidation zones describe current open positions and the prices that would force them closed. They often interact, but they measure different things.