「Buddy」 switched from a mean reversion long/short strategy to a long-only style, with ETH long position showing unrealized gains of over 110%, and has begun actively reducing the position

March 16 — Per HyperInsight monitoring (https://t.me/HyperInsight), Nvidia’s GTC conference is roughly 12 hours away. U.S. storage stocks extended gains in after-hours trading: SanDisk rose more than 3.8%, while Micron Technology climbed over 2.8%. Hong Kong chip stocks and the broader semiconductor sector also posted varying gains, tracking the upward trend. Meanwhile, Nvidia edged up 1% in after-hours trading. On Hyperliquid (https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/join/NTOD), the NVDA contract currently trades at $182, with open interest at $68.7 million. Its 24-hour trading volume has dropped by more than half from last week, to approximately $6.12 million. Nvidia GTC 2026 is scheduled for March 16–19 in San Jose. Jensen Huang will speak at 2 a.m. Beijing time on March 17. The conference expects over 30,000 attendees (developers, researchers, business reps) from 190+ countries, with 1,000+ sessions planned.

March 16: Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale deposited an additional 1.5 million USDC into HyperLiquid (bringing its total deposit to 7.1 million USDC) and opened a 20x leveraged short position on BRENTOIL. The whale also still holds an $8.8 million 20x leveraged short position on CL.

**March 16 — Per HyperInsight monitoring: "Buddy" Huang Licheng transferred $250k to Hyperliquid on Feb 28, launching his 20th leveraged long position on ETH.** Over this trade: - 8 additional deposits were made - 20 total liquidations occurred, totaling $1.16M Recent market recovery pushed his account balance to $2.19M — nearly doubling his initial capital. Position history breakdown: - Feb 28 (opening day): 4 liquidations - Mar 1–3: 13 forced long liquidations; balance dropped to a low of $8,700 - Mar 8–9: 3 more large liquidations By Mar 10, the address deposited again and kept adding longs as ETH fell below $2k to $1,950 — ultimately catching this rebound. This address likely targets a major rally or bull market start. Since October 2023 (nearly 5 months), it’s tried ~170 long trades across assets (20 leveraged ETH longs) with total net deposits to Hyperliquid of ~$16.84M.

March 16 — Justin Sun’s two-year-old XVS holdings have been transferred, per monitoring by @ai_9684xtpa. Two years ago, he withdrew 621,000 XVS from Binance at $12.21 apiece, totaling $7.58 million. This marks the first time the full token amount has been moved to a new address with an unknown owner. Over the two-year period, XVS has plummeted nearly 75% in value, now worth just $1.95 million.

On March 16, Binance launched internal testing of its "BinanceAI" feature for select users. BlockBeats has learned from internal test participants that the new AI tool enables users to create an OpenClaw AI Agent on the platform with one click. The internal test runs through March 23. Crypto influencer Xiaoyu (@Xiaoyu_184CM) noted that OpenClaw AI Agents built via Binance’s platform leverage Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 large language model.

March 16 (ForexLive) — Barclays: Bank of England expected to hold interest rates steady in March, vs prior forecast for a 25 basis point cut.