Today's Top On-Chain Liquidation: A certain whale's BTC long position was liquidated again, with a total of $30.46 million in settlements over the past three days.
May 27 – According to monitoring by Hyperinsight (via Telegram: https://t.me/HyperInsight), on the morning of this date, the contrarian address known as the "1300 BTC Whale" on Hyperliquid saw its long positions liquidated once again. This follows two consecutive forced closures, totaling 96.39 BTC in liquidations, valued at approximately $7.3 million.
For three straight days, this whale has been the largest liquidation address on Hyperliquid, with total liquidation losses reaching $30.46 million, broken down as follows:
- May 25 at 18:00: The address’s BTC short positions were liquidated sequentially, with 169.5 BTC forcibly closed (worth ~$13.15 million); the remaining $220,000 was used to open a new long position.
- May 26 at 8:00: As BTC price dipped to around $76,650 (hitting the address’s liquidation threshold), its BTC long positions were liquidated again, and leftover funds were allocated to a new long position.
- May 27 at 2:00: With BTC dropping below $76,000 once more, the
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A whale purchased approximately 2400 ETH, worth $5 million.
On May 27th, according to on-chain analyst Ai Whale (@ai_9684xtpa), Ethereum (ETH) whale address 0x54d…e6029 acquired 2,400.38 ETH roughly 9 hours ago, totaling $5 million. Immediately after the purchase, the address placed a limit sell order on Cowswap within four minutes, targeting a projected $117,000 profit upon execution.
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