BlockBeats News, February 18 — According to Coinbob’s popular address monitoring, over the past 5 hours, the large whale “pension-usdt.eth” has fully closed its BTC long positions, recording a profit of approximately $505,000. This address transferred about $30 million to Hyperliquid early this morning, then during a short-term dip in BTC price, opened a position at an average price of $67,100, holding 1,000 BTC, worth about $67 million.
This whale’s strategy typically involves low leverage and short cycles (average holding around 30 hours), mainly trading BTC and ETH with heavy positions. Since October last year, it has accumulated profits of over $23 million. Recently, the address has been continuously shifting its substantial profits accumulated on Hyperliquid into interest-bearing markets. Currently, its total lending on AAVE has reached approximately $22 million.
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