「Silver Helmet Ape Army」 Simultaneously Liquidates Short Positions for Five Tokens, Totaling a Profit of $956,300

January 29: Li Hua, founder of Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital), posted a note stating some short sellers rely on the "four-year cycle" logic—believing 2025 has entered a bear market phase similar to 2019-2020, with the market potentially trading sideways long-term or facing a washout via extreme volatility. He noted Trend Research previously accumulated positions during Ethereum’s lows and liquidated them during the consolidation of market highs, with these moves verified on-chain. Li Hua emphasized his team will not shift its established strategy due to emotions or short-term noise. The core goal is to capture the crypto market’s long-cycle main trend, avoid missing bull market opportunities, and achieve long-term gains.

On January 29, per HyperInsight monitoring, a whale wallet (0x9e2...) liquidated its 250,000 HYPE long position at 12:13 PM today. The position was valued at ~$7.875 million, with an average transaction price of ~$31.2 per HYPE, netting the whale a ~$2.18 million profit.

On January 29th, data from 8marketcap indicates that gold’s total market capitalization rose 4.37% over the past 24 hours, adding $1.64 trillion. With Bitcoin’s current market cap at $1.74 trillion, this means gold’s single-day gain is roughly equivalent to the entire market value of Bitcoin.

**Bitcoin Whale (0xd83) Faces $31.6M Liquidation Amid BTC Dip Below $88k** January 29 — Per Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring and Coinglass data, Bitcoin (BTC) briefly slipped below $88,000 early Wednesday, shedding ~2.8% from its intraday high. On the Hyperliquid exchange, the whale address **0xd83** (dubbed the "Air Force Commander") faced multiple liquidations — with its largest single wipeout totaling ~$31.64 million, marking the biggest liquidation across all networks in the past 24 hours. In the last two hours alone, the address was liquidated on **89.7 BTC and 359 BTC long positions**, totaling ~$39.4 million. Its 40x-leveraged BTC long position has now been fully liquidated, leaving just ~$350,000 in remaining account balance. Earlier today (pre-dawn), the same address saw a $22.37 million liquidation on 252 BTC long positions — which was then the network’s largest single liquidation before Wednesday’s $31.6M wipeout. Post-liquidation, the whale used its remaini

On January 29, renowned trader and chart analyst Peter Brandt—who accurately called the 2018 Bitcoin crash—posted: “I have no clue where precious metals prices are headed. This is easily one of the biggest market moves of my career, and while I caught a piece of it (having been long and bullish on silver since mid-2024), I didn’t nail it entirely.” Brandt also cited his mentor Dan Morehead’s words, hinting at an underlying risk in the precious metals space: “This move is too extreme, and the market won’t let this kind of extreme persist for long.”