Gold surges above $4,500, as Bitget’s gold futures contracts post over 34% growth in 24-hour trading volume.

According to monitoring from TradingBeats, the "BIT-linked whale" that once faced an unrealized loss of roughly $88.5 million has finally seen ETH prices rebound to near its cost basis, without selling a single one of its 120,000 ETH. As of press time, the whale’s four addresses collectively hold approximately 120,000 ETH, with a position value of around $271 million and an average entry price of $2,261.23. With ETH’s rally, the position was fully unlocked this morning, and amid a minor pullback, it now carries an unrealized loss of roughly $108,000. The entity has held its position since completing entry, repeatedly topped up its margin, and weathered the nearly $88.5 million paper loss to wait for a price rebound. Its latest liquidation price has fallen to around $1,195.95. Including the roughly $4.9 million in cumulative funding fees paid since opening the position, the whale has not yet fully recouped its costs; however, on a price basis, the unrealized loss has almost been completely erased.

According to HTX market data, as SOL breaks through $87, established meme coins in the Solana ecosystem are seeing a broad rally. Their latest prices and 24-hour gains are as follows: BOME trades at $0.001108, up 46.5%; USELESS at $0.04667, up 25.2%; PNUT at $0.04939, up 20.7%; TROLL at $0.04921, up 20.1%; TRUMP at $1.67, up 19.0%; MOODENG at $0.04000, up 14.0%; WIF at $0.1533, up 11.8%.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the whale codenamed "Set 10 Big Goals First" reduced its holdings by 419.62 BTC and 9,969.37 ETH, with the remaining positions still carrying unrealized losses of over $2.64 million.

As Bitcoin surges past $71,000, the $220 million worth of BTC and ETH held by the entity "Set 10 Big Goals First" has posted an unrealized loss of over $4.2 million. Specifically for Bitcoin: the entity holds 4x leveraged short positions totaling 2,236.384 BTC, with an entry price of $69,826.87, translating to an unrealized loss of roughly $3.52 million. For Ethereum (ETH): it holds 6x leveraged short positions totaling 29,316.677 ETH, with an entry price of $2,254.74, resulting in an unrealized loss of approximately $750,000.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, whale address 0x2d59 withdrew 30,000 ETH from Binance 20 minutes ago, worth approximately $67.42 million. Over the past three weeks, this address has cumulatively withdrawn 120,000 ETH from Binance, valued at around $237.7 million. Separately, Abraxas Capital withdrew 18,000 ETH from Binance today, worth about $39.56 million. Additionally, a newly created wallet address 0x2261 withdrew 6,704 ETH from Binance today, valued at roughly $14 million.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, US stocks in the storage, Neocloud, optical communications, and semiconductor sectors posted broad gains during Thursday's pre-market trading. All storage stocks rose: SK Hynix (SKHY) gained 4.58%, SanDisk (SNDK) up 2.14%, Seagate Technology (STX) up 1.85%, Micron Technology (MU) up 1.70%, and Western Digital (WDC) up 1.39%. The Neocloud sector saw collective strength: Galaxy Digital (GLXY) up 2.28%, Cipher Digital (CIFR) up 2.20%, Nebius (NBIS) up 2.07%, Hut 8 (HUT) up 1.85%, and TeraWulf (WULF) up 1.81%. Most optical communications stocks advanced: Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) up 2.55%, Credo (CRDO) up 2.21%, Coherent (COHR) up 1.81%, Lumentum (LITE) up 1.68%; Nokia (NOK) declined 0.20%. All semiconductor stocks rose: Broadcom (AVGO) up 1.21%, Lam Research (LRCX) up 1.17%, KLA (KLAC) up 1.15%, Arm up 0.98%, and AMD up 0.85%.