On-chain Evening Recap: ETH Short Positions See Over $11 Million in Unrealized Profits, with Whale Exiting Market

On December 29, per monitoring from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight), key whale position shifts between 10:00 AM and 8:00 PM ET today are as follows: ### **Bullish Camp** - The whale nicknamed *"30-time long and never give up"* actively opened long positions this morning (targets: NEAR, ETH, HYPE). This afternoon, it continuously rolled positions, boosting its HYPE long holdings by over 58,000 coins. By day’s end, it closed out positions: took profits on SEI and ETH, and stopped out on NEAR. - *"Buddy Huang"* added 40,000 HYPE long positions this afternoon (a slight position increase), with total holdings now ~$1.3 million. Bullish on HYPE short-term, it fully closed stop-loss positions within the past hour. - The *"LIT on-chain Lighter largest bull"* placed multiple high-level take-profit orders on LIT contracts (target >$4.1). Despite floating losses, it has held firm without reducing positions. ### **Bearish Camp** - The *"ZEC largest bear"* opened a new FARTCOIN short position of 3.26 million coins this morning. This afternoon, it expanded its ETH short position (now over $133 million in size, with floating profits exceeding $11 million), becoming the largest ETH bear. - The *"Long-to-short Whale"* took profits on its SOL short position, netting $58,300. It still holds heavy short positions on BTC and ETH (total size over $123 million). ### **Whale Liquidation Exit** - *"pension-usdt.eth"* reduced its ETH short positions in six large batches, then exited via a stop-loss liquidation at a high point (accumulated loss of $2.51 million). Some short positions were closed during market volatility.