Whale Watch

Whale Watch

2026-09-08 01:28:07

24H crypto roundup: Hunter Biden eyes LAPTOP meme coin, whale Loracle adds to PONS short

Crypto markets on Sept. 8 were led by a mix of meme-coin headlines, whale positioning and sector rotation data. Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, is planning to launch a meme coin called LAPTOP, though no issuance date, supply details or token mechanics have been disclosed. The token is tied to the politically charged “Hunter Biden laptop” theme and was described in the source material as a political expression aimed at Donald Trump and his family. On-chain, Hyperbot data showed whale trader Loracle continued adding to a 3x leveraged short on PONS. The position has grown to 25,747,236 PONS, worth about $21.078 million. Separately, Blockstream said a vulnerability on Liquid has been patched and informed a white-hat hacker that roughly 4,000 BTC can now be safely returned. The hacker still controls 3,998.5 BTC, according to the update. Elsewhere, privacy coins remained in focus. glassnode said the privacy sector is the only major crypto segment above its previous market peak, with ZEC highlighted as a major driver. Market tables in the source also showed RAY, DOOD and METIS among the top 24-hour gainers, while BTC, ETH and SOL were lower over the same period.

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Whale Watch

2026-08-31 10:04:02

Four SK Hynix whales on Hyperliquid flip to shorts over the weekend, holding about $16 million in bearish positions

Four closely watched Hyperliquid addresses shifted aggressively to the short side in SKHX from Friday through Sunday, according to data tracked by TradingBeats and cited by BlockBeats on Aug. 31. The addresses — 0x84ab, 0x269e, 0x2f9b, and 0x4c78 — had previously held about $4.215 million in long exposure and $3.169 million in shorts, leaving them net long by roughly $1.046 million at the end of the week. After the weekend, all four had turned fully bearish, with combined short exposure of 12,164.76 SKHX worth about $14.775 million. Over the same period, their aggregate positioning moved 13,035.52 contracts toward the short side, equivalent to about $15.833 million at current prices. The breakdown shows 0x84ab building a short to roughly $4.615 million, 0x269e closing a 2,309.47-contract long and reversing into a $1.393 million short while taking about $116,000 in losses during the flip, 0x2f9b moving from a 1,200-contract long to a 1,800-contract short, and 0x4c78 expanding an existing short to around $6.581 million. SKHX rose from Friday’s close of $1,200.9 to $1,214.6, up about 1.1% over the weekend, leaving the four addresses with combined unrealized losses of about $487,000 based on a weighted average short entry of $1,174.54.

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Whale Watch

2026-08-31 05:45:43

TradingBeats says tetrose kept betting on $90-$100 oil and held a 50x short on the S&P 500

TradingBeats, formerly Hyperinsight, said Polymarket trader tetrose added to tail bets on WTI crude reaching $90, $95 and $100 by the end of August even as oil spiked overnight. Between 3:35 a.m. and 4:07 a.m. on Aug. 31, the trader made six purchases and spent about $3,182 more. At the time of those trades, implied odds for the three targets stood near 3.63%, 1.50% and 0.70%, compared with current odds of 4.5%, 1.6% and 0.5%. TradingBeats said the combined cost of the three Yes positions is about $38,900, while their current value is only about $8,291, leaving an unrealized loss of roughly $30,600, or 78.7%. The $95 line alone accounts for about $26,900 of that drawdown. After oil moved higher, an address linked to tetrose took profit on 5,349.14 Brent crude long contracts, then placed a bid for 3,618.13 contracts at $88.7, worth about $320,900, to reopen longs on a pullback. The order was never filled and was canceled at 1:22 p.m. The trader also kept an S&P 500 short opened on Aug. 28: 274.773 contracts short at 50x cross margin, with position value around $2.113 million, entry at 7759.6, unrealized profit near $19,200, and a take-profit order at 7600 covering the full position.

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Whale Watch

2026-08-27 03:36:26

Whale 0x0911 expands long ETH, short BTC trade to nearly $29.38 million

Whale address 0x0911 has continued adding to a relative-value trade that went long ETH and short BTC two days ago, according to TradingBeats, formerly Hyperinsight. The combined notional size of the two legs has grown from roughly $20 million to about $29.38 million, a rise of around 46.9%. As of publication, the address held a long position of 5,943.61 ETH worth about $14.819 million, with an average entry price of $2,486.64 and an unrealized profit of about $39,000. On the other side, it held a short position of 184.95 BTC worth about $14.558 million, with an average entry price of $79,804 and an unrealized profit of about $201,000. The two sides remained broadly balanced in size, with total unrealized gains at about $241,000. When the trade was opened on Aug. 25, BTC had outperformed ETH by about 2.2 percentage points over the prior 24 hours, and the average execution level of the two TWAP orders implied a BTC/ETH ratio of about 32.20. That ratio has now fallen to around 31.57, down about 2% from the entry level.

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Whale Watch

2026-08-26 15:30:03

Wallet cluster linked to former Bitkub chairman moves 34,100 ZEC to Hyperliquid, buys 238 BTC

Lookonchain said a wallet cluster suspected to be linked to Sakolkorn Sakavee, co-founder and former chairman of Bitkub, moved a total of 34,100 ZEC to Hyperliquid over the past 24 hours after removing privacy protection. The transferred ZEC was valued at about $26.1 million. The address then sold 24,100 ZEC worth roughly $18.5 million and used part of the proceeds to buy 238 BTC. Lookonchain’s tracking also showed that around 10,000 ZEC, valued at about $7.6 million, remains on Hyperliquid. The related sell orders were placed at around $780. The wallet attribution has not been officially confirmed. Lookonchain noted that the connection to Sakolkorn Sakavee is currently based on on-chain analysis and remains a market inference rather than verified ownership information.

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Whale Watch

2026-08-26 02:56:18

Whale closed BTC short, flipped long, and is again nearing liquidation

A Bitcoin whale address tracked by TradingBeats has closed a 559.36 BTC short position at a loss of about $810,100, then flipped long roughly 10 minutes later, according to a BlockBeats report published on Aug. 26. The address, 0x6046, had previously been within less than 2% of liquidation on the short side. After closing the short, the wallet bought 428.287 BTC to open a long position worth about $34.59 million at an average entry price of $80,761. At the time of publication, the long was showing an unrealized loss of about $677,100. Including the realized loss from closing the short, the address had accumulated about $1.487 million in combined realized and unrealized losses across the two directional switches. That figure was reported to be higher than the account’s current equity of about $1.277 million. BTC was last quoted at $79,181 in the report. The long position’s liquidation price was around $77,163, leaving it about 2.5% away from liquidation again. TradingBeats data cited by BlockBeats also showed no visible BTC stop-loss or position-reduction orders for the address.

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Bitcoin

2026-08-25 10:33:03

Whale watcher Jason says renewed Strategy buying could become a key bullish signal

TechFlowPost reported on Aug. 25 that crypto whale watcher Jason, known as 「先定 10 个大目标」, said Strategy’s behavior was one of the main reasons he identified the area around $58,000 in Bitcoin as the bottom of the current cycle last month. In his view, Strategy was not only weighing Bitcoin’s price moves at the time, but also the likely location of the market bottom, how close the company was to a survival threshold, and how much pressure its capital structure could withstand in an extreme downturn. Jason said Strategy’s move to break with expectations that it would only keep buying and never sell — instead adjusting its BTC and dollar reserves while optimizing its capital structure — amounted to exposing risk early on its own terms rather than being forced into action under market stress. He added that Bitcoin later dipped to $58,000 and then held around $60,000 despite negative headlines tied to hardware wallet security, which he saw as a stress test. What he is watching now, he said, is whether Strategy resumes continuous buying. If that happens, he would treat it as a high-conviction bullish signal, though not as an automatic buy trigger.

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Strategy

2026-08-25 10:29:49

Whale watcher says renewed steady BTC buying by Strategy would be a high-conviction bullish signal

A crypto whale known as 「Set 10 Big Goals First」 said a return to consecutive Bitcoin purchases by Strategy would be treated as a high-weight bullish signal for the market. In a post on X, the account shared Michael Saylor’s comments on Strategy’s latest capital structure adjustment and said the company had been one of the key reference points behind its call last month that BTC was forming a cycle bottom near $58,000. According to the post, the shift became notable when Strategy moved away from the market’s expectation that it would only buy and never sell, and instead started adjusting its Bitcoin and dollar reserves while optimizing its capital structure. The account said that move was viewed as an important signal at the time, and that the market later reflected it as BTC fell toward $58,000. Even after an additional negative factor tied to hardware wallet security hit confidence, Bitcoin still held the $60,000 level in the end. The account said its next focus will be whether Strategy resumes continuous BTC buying, and that such behavior would carry significant weight in its market reading.

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