Whale Opens 16x Leveraged BTC Short on Hyperliquid, Position Worth $50.6M; Profits $720K from ETH Arbitrage

Gate News message, April 25 — A whale address beginning with 0x310 opened a 16x leveraged short position on 653 BTC on Hyperliquid in the past 30 minutes, valued at approximately $50.6 million at an average price of $77,470. The position has a liquidation price of $81,308 and currently ranks as the platform's second-largest BTC short holder.

Approximately 10 days ago, the same address withdrew 1,351 ETH from a crypto exchange and subsequently sold all holdings on Hyperliquid for roughly $3.18 million. Through multiple rounds of trading activity, the whale has accumulated profits of $720,000 to date.