Top Whale Watch: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Sees $27M Paper Profit, "Strategy Bear Whale" Adds $18M to ETH Short Position
BlockBeats News, January 7th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor, influenced by the market recovery, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" has expanded its unrealized profit to $27 million. The "Strategy Counterparty" increased its ETH short position, with a holding size of $79.5 million. Most whales' positions remained unchanged or slightly adjusted. Specific information is as follows:
“BTC OG Insider Whale”: The account's total unrealized profit has expanded to $27.06 million. Its main holding is an ETH long position, with a profit of $21.33 million (16%), an average price of $3,147, and a holding size of approximately $660 million. It also holds BTC long and SOL long positions, both with unrealized profits. The current total account holding size is approximately $825 million, now ranking first in ETH, BTC, and SOL long positions on Hyperliquid.
“CZ Counterparty”: The current ETH long position has an unrealized profit of approximately $3.5 million, with a holding size of approximately $185 million and an average price of $3,190. In addition, it also holds XRP long positions with a holding size of approximately $87.95 million and an unrealized loss of $1.05 million. It is currently the largest XRP long position and the second largest ETH long position on Hyperliquid, with a weekly profit of $30.61 million and no current position adjustment.
“ZEC Largest Short”: Last night and this morning, it continued to close MON short positions of about $1.6 million, with the current holding size at approximately $8.07 million, an average price of $0.028, and an unrealized loss of $20,000. In addition, its ETH short position turned from profit to loss, with a holding size of approximately $149 million and an average price of $3,239. Currently, its total short position holding on the account is approximately $182 million, with a weekly loss of $13.85 million, now the largest short position in ETH, ZEC, and MON on the platform.
“Shanzhai Air Force Leader”: Opened a BTC short position with a holding size of approximately $340,000; recently continued to increase holdings of PUMP, MET, as well as short positions of Solana on-chain meme coins PEPE and Fartcoin, with the total size of related short positions increased to approximately $6 million. In addition, this address is still the largest short position in LIT on the Hyperliquid platform, with a holding size of approximately $14.17 million, an average price of $2.7, and a current unrealized loss of approximately $1.65 million.
“pension-usdt.eth”: Opened a 3x leveraged ETH short position with an unrealized loss of $2.31 million, with the current holding size reaching $65 million, an average price of $3,136, and a liquidation price of $4,547.
「Strategy Opponent Position」: Yesterday to today, continuously added to ETH short position, with a total position of about $18 million, reaching a total position size of $79.5 million, with an average price of $3,145, and an unrealized loss of $2.55 million. Additionally, it is also the largest BTC short whale on Hyperliquid, with a BTC short position of around $139 million, with an average price of $91,300.
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