Top Whale Watch: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Nets $39M Paper Gain, "Strategy Whale" Long Position Reaches $460M

By: theblockbeats.news|2026/01/15 04:30:13

BlockBeats News, January 15th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor data, the 「BTC OG Insider Whale」 has not yet adjusted its unrealized gains. The 「Strategy Whale」 opened a long position 11 hours ago, with a total scale of $460 million. 「pension-usdt.eth」 has fully closed its ETH long position initiated yesterday. Specific information is as follows:

「BTC OG Insider Whale」: The account has an overall unrealized gain of $39 million. Its main holding is an ETH long position, with a gain of $27.8 million, an average price of $3147, and a position size of approximately $670 million. In addition, it also holds BTC and SOL long positions, with the current total account position size of approximately $837 million, now ranking first in ETH and SOL long positions on Hyperliquid, with the long position held for over 30 days.

「CZ Whale」: The account has moved from a profit to a loss, with the current ETH long position having an unrealized gain of $5.3 million, a position size of approximately $190 million, and an average price of $3190. In addition, its XRP long position is still at an unrealized loss of $8 million, with a position size of approximately $82 million. The current total account position size is about $280 million, now being the largest XRP long position and the second largest ETH long position on Hyperliquid.

「ZEC Largest Short」: Last night and this morning, continued spot buying to short FARTCOIN contracts, with a total combination of spot and contract hedging of $6.4 million. In addition, it continues to close WLFI short positions. Currently, the total short position of the account is approximately $174 million, now the largest ETH short position on-chain.

「Meme Coin Short Squad」: Last night and this morning, continued spot buying to short HYPE contracts, with a total combination of spot and contract hedging of $17.2 million. In addition, it continues to close XPL short positions. The total account position size is about $55 million.

「pension-usdt.eth」: Fully closed the ETH long position in the past hour, with a total reduction of about 20,000 tokens, equivalent to $66.4 million, recording a profit of about $740,000, and has not opened a new position since.

「Strategy Whale」: Partially reduced the BTC long position in the past hour. Currently, it holds a total of $440 million in BTC, ETH, and SOL long positions, with a total unrealized loss of about $5.3 million. This position was opened since 11:00 PM yesterday.

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