Weekend Hot Whales Overview: "BTC OG Insider Whale" turns losing longs into profits, "Strategy Opponent" adds to BTC longs with over $90 million

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BTC2,9%
ZEC-2,89%
ETH3,55%
SOL-0,03%

BlockBeats News, January 12 — According to Coinbob’s popular address monitoring, the overall profit and loss of the “BTC OG Insider Whale” account has floated to the water’s surface, with no rebalancing yet. The “Shanzhai Air Force Leader” has fully closed ZEC short positions, and the “Strategy Opponent” has increased its total holdings from $180 million to $256 million. The specific information is as follows:

“BTC OG Insider Whale”: The overall profit and loss has floated to the water’s surface, with a floating profit of $1.8 million. Its main holdings are ETH long positions, with a floating loss of $3.72 million (-3%), an average price of $3,147, and a position size of approximately $630 million. Currently, the main profit comes from SOL long positions, with a floating profit of $5.95 million (82%), an average price of $130, and a position size of about $72.5 million. The current total account position size is approximately $800 million, making it the top ETH and SOL long positions on Hyperliquid.

“CZ Opponent”: Currently, ETH long positions have a floating loss of $3.7 million, with a position size of about $178 million, and an average price of $3,190. Additionally, it holds XRP long positions, with a position size of about $82.1 million and a floating loss of $8.55 million. The current total account position size is about $265 million, making it the largest XRP long and the second-largest ETH long on Hyperliquid.

“ZEC Largest Short”: Last night and this morning, it continued to close MON short positions and sold spot, closing FARTCOIN contracts. The current MON short position size is about $4.28 million, with an average price of $0.0281. Additionally, its ETH short position has a floating profit of $5.65 million, turning ZEC short positions profitable. The total account short position is about $171 million, making it the platform’s largest short position in ETH, ZEC, and MON.

“Shanzhai Air Force Leader”: Fully closed ZEC short positions and transferred funds to increase DOGE and XPL short positions, with the current short positions in these two coins exceeding $410,000. This address remains the largest short position in LIT on the Hyperliquid platform, with a position size of about $12 million, an average price of $2.7, and has turned from loss to profit.

“pension-usdt.eth”: The 3x leveraged ETH long position has turned from loss to profit, with a floating profit of $440,000. The current position size is $62.4 million, with an average price of $3,097 and a liquidation price of $1,610.

“Strategy Opponent”: After significantly reducing positions by nearly half on January 9, this whale address has recently continued to adjust its positions, with total holdings rebounding from $180 million to $256 million. Its recent rebalancing mainly involves increasing BTC long positions, with holdings rising from $31.2 million to $121 million, an average price of $90,500, making it the largest BTC long position on Hyperliquid.

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