Top Whale Watch: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Turns Loss into Gain After Holding Position for 20 Days, "ZEC Largest Short" Recently Loses $11.6 Million
BlockBeats News, January 4th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring, "BTC OG Insider Whale" has turned losses into gains, "Meme Army Frontman" increased LIT short position to $10 million, and the "ZEC Largest Short" saw a significant reduction in unrealized gains. Details are as follows:
“BTC OG Insider Whale”: This morning, the account turned losses into gains, with a total unrealized gain of $1.5 million. Its main holding is an ETH long position, with an unrealized loss of $59,000 (-0.05%), an average price of $3,147, and a position size of approximately $640 million. Currently, the main unrealized gains come from the SOL long position, with a gain of $1.8 million, an average price of $130. The current total position size of the account is approximately $799 million, making it the top long position on ETH, BTC, and SOL on Hyperliquid.
“CZ Counterparty”: The total unrealized loss has narrowed to $12.43 million. The current ETH long position has an unrealized loss of approximately $2.46 million, a position size of about $179 million, and an average price of $3,190. In addition, it also holds an XRP long position, with a position size of about $78.96 million and an unrealized loss of $10.03 million. It is currently the largest XRP long position and the second-largest ETH long position on Hyperliquid.
“ZEC Largest Short”: Last night and this morning, it continued to close out the MON short position, reducing the position size by about 10%. The current position size is approximately $11.59 million, an average price of $0.0281, and an unrealized loss of $340,000. In addition, its ETH short position saw a significant reduction in unrealized gains, while the ZEC short position's unrealized loss expanded, resulting in a weekly loss of $11.64 million. Its current total short position is about $174 million, making it the largest short position on ETH, ZEC, and MON on the platform.
“Ultimate Short”: It has not yet closed out the BTC short position to take profit recently. The current BTC short position size is around $45.5 million, with an unrealized gain of $10.25 million. It plans to partially close out at $76,200 with a BTC take-profit order. In addition, it also holds a 100x leveraged long position on XYZ derivative contracts, with a position size of about $5.02 million.
“Meme Army Frontman”: It has been continuously increasing its LIT short position recently. The current LIT position size has reached $10.17 million, an average price of $2.70, and an unrealized gain of $230,000. In addition, the address has been adding to XPL and PUMP short positions today, with the total position size now reaching $37.67 million. The address is currently the largest LIT short position on the Hyperliquid platform.
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