Top Whale Watch: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Sees $27M Paper Profit, "Strategy Bear Whale" Adds $18M to ETH Short Position

By: theblockbeats.news|2026/01/07 03:16:05
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BlockBeats News, January 7th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor, influenced by the market recovery, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" has expanded its unrealized profit to $27 million. The "Strategy Counterparty" increased its ETH short position, with a holding size of $79.5 million. Most whales' positions remained unchanged or slightly adjusted. Specific information is as follows:

“BTC OG Insider Whale”: The account's total unrealized profit has expanded to $27.06 million. Its main holding is an ETH long position, with a profit of $21.33 million (16%), an average price of $3,147, and a holding size of approximately $660 million. It also holds BTC long and SOL long positions, both with unrealized profits. The current total account holding size is approximately $825 million, now ranking first in ETH, BTC, and SOL long positions on Hyperliquid.

“CZ Counterparty”: The current ETH long position has an unrealized profit of approximately $3.5 million, with a holding size of approximately $185 million and an average price of $3,190. In addition, it also holds XRP long positions with a holding size of approximately $87.95 million and an unrealized loss of $1.05 million. It is currently the largest XRP long position and the second largest ETH long position on Hyperliquid, with a weekly profit of $30.61 million and no current position adjustment.

“ZEC Largest Short”: Last night and this morning, it continued to close MON short positions of about $1.6 million, with the current holding size at approximately $8.07 million, an average price of $0.028, and an unrealized loss of $20,000. In addition, its ETH short position turned from profit to loss, with a holding size of approximately $149 million and an average price of $3,239. Currently, its total short position holding on the account is approximately $182 million, with a weekly loss of $13.85 million, now the largest short position in ETH, ZEC, and MON on the platform.

“Shanzhai Air Force Leader”: Opened a BTC short position with a holding size of approximately $340,000; recently continued to increase holdings of PUMP, MET, as well as short positions of Solana on-chain meme coins PEPE and Fartcoin, with the total size of related short positions increased to approximately $6 million. In addition, this address is still the largest short position in LIT on the Hyperliquid platform, with a holding size of approximately $14.17 million, an average price of $2.7, and a current unrealized loss of approximately $1.65 million.

“pension-usdt.eth”: Opened a 3x leveraged ETH short position with an unrealized loss of $2.31 million, with the current holding size reaching $65 million, an average price of $3,136, and a liquidation price of $4,547.

「Strategy Opponent Position」: Yesterday to today, continuously added to ETH short position, with a total position of about $18 million, reaching a total position size of $79.5 million, with an average price of $3,145, and an unrealized loss of $2.55 million. Additionally, it is also the largest BTC short whale on Hyperliquid, with a BTC short position of around $139 million, with an average price of $91,300.

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