HYPE Whale Loracle's $50.8 Million Spot Unlocked, Market Generally Expects Sell-off
May 29th – Per Hyperinsight’s monitoring, HYPE’s largest short seller “Trader Loracle” has unlocked 893,000 staked HYPE spot tokens, valued at around $50.8 million. No further moves have been made by Loracle so far. Over the past month, this whale completed two unlocks totaling 1.115 million HYPE tokens, worth roughly $63.51 million. On May 21 – the day HYPE hit its all-time high – Loracle sold 557,000 HYPE tokens for approximately $33.35 million, per on-chain records.
Market watchers expect Loracle could sell these newly unlocked 893,000 spot tokens, which would put selling pressure on HYPE. This potential sell-off may also coincide with reductions in short positions. If Loracle sells the spot tokens but fails to cover their short positions at the same time, their $104 million HYPE short position would turn into a naked short. A short squeeze triggering forced liquidations could result in losses exceeding $100 million – enough to wipe out all of their spot gains.
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