A certain DeFi trader is going long again with $1.1M worth of PEPE in a flash loan.

On January 21, data from AI Grandma indicates an original 2016 ETH whale deposited 14,183 ETH to Coinbase 40 minutes ago—valued at $41.93 million. This is their first seven-figure ETH deposit in over three years. The address’s most recent notable ETH accumulation was suspected to be on February 11, 2022, with an average withdrawal price as low as $1,236.65. Tracing their ETH transactions back shows activity dating to 2016.

On January 21st, per monitoring from HyperInsight (via https://t.me/HyperInsight), a whale liquidated an 84.37 BTC long position opened at 17:29 the same day, resulting in a $45,000 loss. The address currently holds no positions and is in a wait-and-see stance. Additionally, the address has recently seen frequent fund inflows and outflows, with its largest single deposit reaching 10 million USDC—signaling typical whale behavior.

On January 21st, monitoring by HyperInsight (via https://t.me/HyperInsight) revealed the "20 Million Bandit" address (0x880a...) executed a partial liquidation of its PAXG (on-chain gold) short position. The move reduced its 78.14 PAXG short by approximately $373,000. Post-reduction, the address’s total PAXG short position is now valued at roughly $1.494 million. The position currently holds a floating loss of ~$151,000 (a 50.66% loss), with an average entry price of $4,399.04 and a liquidation price of $61,360.732. Known for high-frequency, multi-currency arbitrage trading (average holding time ~20 hours), the address has accumulated nearly $100 million in realized profits since October 2023, starting with an initial capital of around $20 million.

Per EmberCN monitoring, on January 21, “7 Siblings” deposited 596,800 ETH (valued at roughly $1.765 billion) into the lending protocol Spark via 8 addresses, making them the platform’s largest depositor. They then borrowed 193 million stablecoins (including DAI, USDT, USDS) from Spark. Amid last year’s October-November market downturn, the group used those borrowed stablecoins to bottom-fish and acquire 49,287 ETH at an average price of $3,531. Currently, they hold an unrealized loss of roughly $27.7 million on this position. Additionally, addresses ranking 2nd through 7th, 10th, and 11th on Spark are all linked to “7 Siblings.”

As monitored by HyperInsight, a whale address (prefix: 0xa503) opened a new 30-BTC long position at 17:23 on January 21. The position has an approximate value of $89,300, corresponding to a notional value of ~$2.68 million. Currently, the address holds a 40x-leveraged BTC long position (30 BTC, ~$2.68 million notional) with an unrealized profit of ~$1,707 and a liquidation price of ~$86,000.

January 21 — Per Hyperinsight monitoring (via the Telegram channel at https://t.me/HyperInsight) — at 16:37 today, a whale address starting with 0x8d0 liquidated a long position worth ~$89,000, stopping out 81.29 BTC (equivalent to ~$7.24 million). The address currently still holds a 0.503 BTC long position with 20x leverage. The position is valued at ~$45,000, with an unrealized loss of ~$153.8 at current market prices, and an average entry price of $89,000.