「$10M Profit Whale」 Suspected of Accumulating 6000 ETH in a Transaction, with an Average Price of $1582

May 23 – According to AI Mama, wallet address 0x60a…685f6 transferred 10 million USDC to Hyperliquid at 3:00 AM today, followed by adding 28,500 BRENTOIL to their position and opening a short of 1,000 CL. Currently, the address holds a total of $15.49 million in crude oil short positions, ranking among the top 3 largest BRENTOIL positions on Hyperliquid. It has an unrealized loss of $778,000, with over $600,000 already paid out in funding fees.

May 23 – The Iran Civil Aviation Organization has issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for Iranian airspace, temporarily closing all airports in the western part of the Tehran Flight Information Region (FIR) except for 8 airports: Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Tehran Mehrabad International Airport, and six others not specified. These 8 open airports will only allow commercial flights, and access is restricted to daylight hours. The NOTAM is effective from May 22 through May 25, 2026. All airlines operating flights over or into Iranian airspace are still required to obtain prior clearance from the Iran Civil Aviation Organization.

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart said Grayscale has resubmitted its amended Hyperliquid ETF filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with this latest submission being Amendment #3 and confirmed to carry the ticker symbol "GHYP". Seyffart noted that as the application advances through the regulatory process, the Hyperliquid ETF may be nearing its launch phase — a development that will lead to three HYPE-related ETF products being available on U.S. exchanges in the future.

May 23 — A terrorist trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has targeted Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump for assassination, according to a report from the *New York Post*. The recently arrested 32-year-old suspect, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national, allegedly pledged to kill Ivanka and planned to stake out her residence in Florida. He reportedly targeted the Trump family to retaliate over the 2020 U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Iran’s top military commander Qasem Soleimani — a move he framed as revenge for the death of his mentor. Entifadh Qanbar, former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, noted, “After Qasem was killed, he (Saadi) went around telling people, ‘We have to kill Ivanka in revenge. Just like Trump burned our house, we will burn his house too.’”

On May 23rd, Bloomberg reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given Nasdaq the go-ahead to launch a Bitcoin price-based index options product. The new offering will provide U.S. stock market traders with an additional tool to gain Bitcoin exposure, separate from existing spot Bitcoin ETF options. Moving forward, investors can trade Bitcoin index options to speculate on or hedge against BTC price risks without needing to hold underlying spot assets or ETFs directly. Market watchers note this approval further underscores the accelerating convergence between traditional financial markets and the crypto asset ecosystem. Previously, products like BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) — which includes spot Bitcoin ETF options — were already seeing widespread trading activity among investors.

On May 23rd, on-chain monitoring data from lookonchain indicates that whale address 0xB4d3 sold 20,000 ETH within the last hour at an average price of $2,059, amounting to roughly $41.18 million.