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On-chain Whale Activity Overview: Whale Suffers $125 Million ETH Loss in 'Rug Pull' Stop Loss, Arthur Hayes Sells Off Ethereum Ecosystem Tokens

2025.11.16 11:56:46

On November 16th, according to the monitoring of Hyperinsight, the whale movements that have been highly active on-chain in the past 24 hours are as follows: BitMEX Co-founder Arthur Hayes sold approximately $5 million worth of Ethereum ecosystem tokens today. He sold a total of 780 ETH ($2.48 million), 5,020,000 ENA ($1.384 million), 640,000 LDO ($480,000), 1,630 AAVE ($289,000), 28,670 UNI ($209,000), and 132,730 ETHFI ($124,000). A certain whale address recently acquired 444,895 ETH (worth $1.39 billion) and is suspected of starting to sell. The whale withdrew 177,000 ETH (worth $561.3 million) from Aave 8 hours ago and deposited 44,000 ETH (worth $140.2 million) into Binance. The whale's buying cost was around $3,437, and it is currently facing a loss of approximately $125 million. The largest ZEC short on Hyperliquid has been held for over a month. Early this morning, an additional 5 million USDC was transferred to the account to increase the collateral. The 5x ZEC short position was opened at $360. The current ZEC price is $686, and the liquidation price is $1,084, resulting in a floating loss of $20 million. The address has been building the ZEC short position since October 11 and has continued to add to the position to average the cost during the upswing. The whale also opened a 15x ETH short, valued at $26 million. Currently, it has a floating profit of $7 million with an opening price of $4,094. The "Buddy" Huang Licheng partially closed his ETH long position this morning and slightly increased the position again. Currently, his 25x ETH long position is worth approximately $25 million. The opening price is $3,397, the liquidation price is $3,049, the current ETH price is $3,154, and there is a floating loss of $1.9 million. "Buddy" realized a profit of $770,000 in the past week, bringing the total account loss to $16.43 million. A certain whale has taken large short positions on BTC, XRP, and ZEC, with a total value exceeding $190 million. The current positions are as follows: A 40x short BTC position worth $148 million, with an opening price of $96,065.2 and a liquidation price of $97,560.2; A 20x short position on XRP worth $27.3 million, with an entry price of $2.225 and a liquidation price of $2.5; A 10x short position on ZEC worth $20.6 million, with an entry price of $652 and a liquidation price of $775. The "Whale Opponent of Top 100% Win Rate" has just added to their 10x leveraged ETH short position, bringing it to $20.11 million. The average entry price is $3186.98, and the liquidation price is $3736.89. On Hyperliquid, the largest long position on ZEC currently holds a $22.29 million ZEC long position with 5x leverage. It has a single-coin unrealized profit of $8.28 million, an entry price of $396.9, and a liquidation price of $358.44.
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