Ethereum Whales Make Big Moves in 24 Hours: 5x ETH Short Closed, 25x ETH Long Expanded, and 7,066 ETH Hoard
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COINOTAG News, citing Hyperinsight, reports on-chain activity from Ethereum whales in the last 24 hours, signaling sustained market engagement.
The 1011 Insider Whale opened a 5x ETH short at $3,001.81 ($15 million), then closed near $2,989.85, booking roughly $55,000 in realized gains.
Brotherhood Buddy, Huang Lizheng, lifted a long ETH exposure with 25x leverage toward $286 million; entry at $2,981.59, plus a separate $34.41 HYPE stake.
A contract whale switching to spot added 1,000 ETH, bringing holdings to 7,066 ETH (~$212 million) with 4.78 million USDC idle.
HyperLiquid unstaking shows 2.6 million HYPE tokens ($91 million) exited, 854,254 restaked to the same wallet, and 1,745,746 moved to 29 new addresses.
An ICO-era address, 0x2dCA, activated after a decade, moved 39,995 ETH (~$1.194B) to new holdings; the 2016 ETH Ancient Whale has sold 7,000 ETH this month via Wintermute.