Top Whale Watching: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Faces $44M Unrealized Loss, "Strategy Short Squeeze" Liquidates $210M BTC Long Position
BlockBeats News, January 23rd, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor, "BTC OG Insider Whale" has a total unrealized loss of 44 million US dollars; "Strategy Whales" significantly increased their SOL long positions, and completely liquidated their previous BTC long positions with a scale of about 210 million US dollars; "CZ Whales", "ZEC Largest Short", and "pension-usdt.eth" whales' holdings remained relatively stable. Whale information on Hyperliquid with holdings over 100 million from yesterday to today is as follows:
"BTC OG Insider Whale": Total holdings decreased from 829 million US dollars to 817 million US dollars; on-chain ETH, SOL's largest long position.
ETH (5x Long): The position size decreased from about 670 million US dollars to about 660 million US dollars, with an average price of 3061.18 US dollars, a liquidation price of 2258 US dollars, and the unrealized loss increased from about 33 million US dollars to about 42 million US dollars.
BTC (5x Long): The position size remained at about 90 million US dollars, with an average price of 91680 US dollars, and an unrealized loss of about 1.68 million US dollars.
"Air Force Commander": Total holdings increased from 266 million to 305 million US dollars; on-chain BTC's largest short whale
BTC (40x Short): The position size increased from about 140 million US dollars to about 150 million US dollars, with an average price of 90107.40 US dollars, a liquidation price of 92000 US dollars, and the unrealized profit decreased from about 1.92 million US dollars to about 1.83 million US dollars.
ETH (15x Short): The position size increased from about 96 million US dollars to about 110 million US dollars, with an average price of 2966.39 US dollars, a liquidation price of 3043 US dollars, and the unrealized profit increased from about 2.12 million US dollars to about 3.54 million US dollars.
"Strategy Whales": Total holdings decreased from 365 million US dollars to 332 million US dollars; on-chain ETH long TOP2
ETH (15x Long): The position size increased from about 200 million US dollars to about 250 million US dollars, with an average price of 2965.35 US dollars, a liquidation price of 2579 US dollars, and the unrealized profit decreased from about 2.77 million US dollars to about 2.07 million US dollars.
SOL (20x Long): Added positions today, with a position size of about 71 million US dollars, an average price of 128.68 US dollars, a liquidation price of 68.91 US dollars, and an unrealized profit of about 0.65 million US dollars.
BTC (20x Long): Previously held a position worth approximately $210 million, now completely closed.
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