New Hyperliquid Whale Opens Aggressive BTC Long and ETH Short With $4M USDC

On-chain tracker Lookonchain reveals that a newly-created wallet, 0x89BC, deposited an amount of $4 million USDC to Hyperliquid in the last 4 days. The wallet subsequently put the money into a high leverage pair trade and that is an indication that it has high confidence that Bitcoin will perform better than Ethereum.

Disaggregated Current Leveraged Positions

The wallet entered into two broad perpetual futures contracts with leverage 10. The trader took a 10x long position on 218.6 BTC with the notional value of the position being about $19.15 million at the average entry price of around $87,700. Meanwhile, the trader took out a 10x short on 5294 ETH incurring a notional exposure of approximately 15.59 million at an average cost of about 2940. Combined, these positions are obviously aimed at profits on increasing BTC/ETH ratio rather than a directional market.

Targets Bitcoin Outperformance ETH Strategy

When this happens, Bitcoin tends to be more successful than Ethereum as correlations fall. The current trend in the market favors this strategy. Bitcoin has also been quite stable whereas Ethereum has performed slightly weakly. Consequently the trade will now indicate a small unrealized loss on the long on the BTC and a large unrealized gain on the short on ETH, maintaining the aggregate position profitable.

Hyperliquid is still attracting advanced traders utilizing its Layer-1 perpetuals platform with deep liquidity, high-performance execution, and sub-second settlement. Millions of dollars are tradin on a daily basis. A steep drop or rise in either Bitcoin or Ethereum would demand fast corrective action or would initiate forced sales.