On-Chain Large Position Building On March 19, what appears to be the same entity spent approximately $112 million to purchase over 50,000 ETH. This address had shown no significant activity for about a year prior—breaking the selling pattern, which the market interpreted as major capital repositioning. During the same period, a Matrixport-affiliated address also added 20,000 ETH long positions, bringing total holdings to approximately $203 million.
Over the past few years, numerous institutions and retail investors have categorized gold and bitcoin in the same asset class—tools to combat inflation and hedge against US dollar depreciation. When gold drops sharply, the market often reprices whether the "hedge narrative" holds true, and bitcoin, as a similar asset, gets sold off together. This is not fundamental correlation, but rather emotional contagion resulting from capital classification.