Top Whale Watch: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Realizes $40M Profit, "Strategy Whaleslayer" Rebounds with $15M Loss After Adding to Long Position
BlockBeats News, January 19th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" saw a significant narrowing of floating profit today without rebalancing, while the swing whale "Strategy Counterparty" closed long positions in the short term and once again bottomed out to open long positions. Specific information is as follows:
“BTC OG Insider Whale”: The account's overall floating profit is $15.5 million. Its main position is an ETH long position, with a profit of $12.6 million (8%), an average price of $3161, and a position size of approximately $720 million. In addition, it also holds BTC and SOL long positions, with the current total account position size of about $880 million, now ranking first in ETH and SOL long positions on Hyperliquid.
“CZ Counterparty”: The account's overall profit has turned into a loss, with a floating loss of $12 million. The main loss comes from an XRP long position, with a position size of about $75.6 million and a floating loss of $13.3 million. In addition, its ETH long position has a profit of $1.4 million, a position size of approximately $183 million, and an average price of $3190. The current total account position size is about $264 million, now ranking as the largest XRP long position and the second largest ETH long position on Hyperliquid.
“ZEC Largest Short”: Continuously took significant profits by closing MON short positions and added FARTCOIN hedge positions. Currently, its total short position size is about $167 million, now the largest ETH short position on-chain.
“Meme Coin Army Head”: Significantly increased LIT short positions, with the current LIT short position size of $7.4 million, a profit of $3.3 million, an average price of $2.617, and the current total account short position size of about $49 million.
“pension-usdt.eth”: The 3x leveraged BTC long position opened on the 16th is facing a floating loss of $3 million, with a position size of about $92.58 million and an average price of $95.6k.
“Strategy Counterparty”: Closed stop-loss long positions in the three major mainstream coins in the past 2 hours, resulting in a loss of over $15.3 million. Subsequently, the address bottomed out and opened long positions in BTC and ETH with 20x leverage. The position size has accumulated to $40 million, still in the range of $91.3k to $91.5k for BTC and $2800 to $3155 for ETH, with buy orders of about $80 million.
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