BlockBeats News, February 10 — According to Coinbob’s popular address monitoring, “neoyokio.eth” whale (0x152) established a long position in ASTER with 2x leverage on January 28. In recent days, it added to the position and increased leverage to 4x. Its current holdings have grown to $11 million, with an average price of $0.603, and an unrealized profit of approximately $250,000 (8% return), making it the largest long position in ASTER on Hyperliquid.
The sub-address associated with this whale (0xfb5…) previously held about $2 million in ASTER long positions but exited with a stop-loss before the market crash on February 6. Currently, this sub-address does not hold any relevant positions.
This whale also took a long position in XPL at an average price of $0.69 with 1x leverage on September 24, just before a significant rise in XPL. The position was worth $20 million, making it the largest on-chain long during XPL’s main upward wave, with a peak unrealized profit of over $16 million. It was once suspected of having insider information related to XPL. Additionally, this address is active on Polymarket prediction markets and currently holds a position in one of the markets.
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