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$59 million HYPE Spot Price "Sell-off Signal"? Loracle Initiates Slight HYPE Short Position Reduction

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May 30 – According to monitoring from on-chain analytics firm Hyperinsight, top HYPE short seller "Trader Loracle" staked 893,000 HYPE tokens that unlocked in the early hours of this past Monday, then transferred those funds to its HyperEVM address Tuesday, valuing the move at roughly $59 million. No further action has been taken on its spot HYPE holdings so far. Notably, Loracle began reducing its short position two hours ago, executing single transactions of ~$500k at a steady pace, for a total reduction of about $3 million. The whale still holds a massive HYPE short position currently valued at $114 million, with an unrealized loss of $35.5 million; around $27 million in collateral is backing that position. Over the past month, the whale has unlocked a total of 1.115 million HYPE tokens across two unlock cycles, worth ~$63.51 million in total. Per trackable on-chain records, Loracle sold 557,000 HYPE tokens on May 21, netting roughly $33.35 million at the time. Market participants now expect Loracle to sell its newly unlocked 893,000 spot HYPE tokens. That sale could also be accompanied by additional short position reductions. If the whale sells the spot HYPE without corresponding short position stop-losses, its $104 million HYPE short position will become a unilateral naked short exposure. Should a short squeeze trigger liquidation, potential losses could exceed $1 billion—erasing all spot gains the whale has made. --- HyperInsight Bot is now live! Add @HyperInsightBot to your Telegram group, grant it admin privileges (you’ll need to enable message sending permissions) to auto-sync real-time on-chain data.
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