Top Whale Watch: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Nets $45M Unrealized Gain, Two Major Swing Whales Open New BTC Longs

By: theblockbeats.news|2026/01/16 10:30:13

BlockBeats News, January 16th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor data, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" saw a slight narrowing of profits today without adjusting positions, while the swing whale "Strategy Counterparty" and "pension-usdt.eth" both opened long positions within the past 3 hours. The specific information is as follows:

"BTC OG Insider Whale": The overall account profit is $45 million. Its main holding is an ETH long position, with a profit of $34.5 million (25%), an average price of $3,147, and a holding size of approximately $670 million. In addition, it also holds BTC and SOL long positions, with the current total account holding size of approximately $843 million, now ranking first in ETH and SOL long positions on Hyperliquid, with the current long position held for over 30 days.

"CZ Counterparty": The current ETH long position profit is $7.1 million, with a holding size of approximately $190 million and an average price of $3,190. In addition, its XRP long position is still in an unrealized loss state, with a holding size of approximately $80.6 million and a loss of $8.3 million. The current total account holding size is approximately $276 million, now holding the largest XRP long position and the second largest ETH long position on Hyperliquid.

"ZEC Largest Short": Closed MON short position and added to WLFI short position, with the current WLFI short position holding size reaching $2.7 million, with an average price of $0.1694. Currently, the total account short position holding size is approximately $170 million, now the largest ETH short position on-chain.

"Shanzhai Air Force Leader": Took significant profits on LIT and XPL short positions, with the current LIT short position holding size of $6.7 million, still holding a profit of $3.2 million; XPL short position holding size of $1.46 million, with a profit of $0.33 million, and the current total account short position holding size is approximately $51 million.

"pension-usdt.eth": Continued to open 3x leveraged BTC long positions in the past 2 hours, with a cumulative increase of approximately 802 coins, equivalent to $76.7 million, an average price of $95,600, and still continuing to add to positions.

"Strategy Counterparty": Opened new 20x leveraged BTC long positions in the past 3 hours, with a cumulative increase of approximately 20.9 coins, equivalent to $2 million, an average price of $95,700, and still continuing to add to positions. Currently, the total BTC, ETH, and SOL long position size is $257 million, with a total unrealized loss of approximately $4.2 million in the account.

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