「Air Force One」 once again registered an $83 million net settlement, claiming the top spot across all platforms, before executing a $49 million long position in BTC.

As of January 28th, data from HyperInsight (via their Telegram channel) and Coinglass shows Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) surged sharply in short-term trading starting at 4 a.m. ET today. Over the past 24 hours, short liquidations for both tokens on the Hyperliquid platform exceeded 80% of total liquidations—with BTC shorts making up 55% and ETH shorts 32% of the total scale. **Key Whale Liquidation Update** The network’s largest single liquidation in the past 24 hours came from the so-called "Air Force Commander" whale (address: 0xd83...), which took another massive hit at 4:09 a.m. ET today: - 40x leveraged BTC short: 2,534 BTC liquidated (~$22.55M total). The biggest single chunk hit at ~$88,600, totaling $13.25M (network’s top single liquidation in 24h). - 25x leveraged ETH short: ~18,980 ETH liquidated (~$56.94M total). Largest single slice hit at ~$2,989, totaling $11.35M. Post-liquidation, the whale quickly flipped its position: it opened a 40x leveraged BTC long worth $49M, with an average entry price of $89,400 and a liquidation threshold of $88,290. **Whale Background** This address has long been a top short seller across multiple crypto assets, at one point holding nearly $500M in total positions and rolling over positions repeatedly. Recently, it’s faced back-to-back massive liquidations: ~$199M on Jan 22nd and ~$120M on Jan 26th.