{"id":495343,"date":"2025-08-25T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=495343"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:56:21","slug":"whales-2-6-billion-bitcoin-sale-fueled-weekend-crash-amid-eth-buying-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/whales-2-6-billion-bitcoin-sale-fueled-weekend-crash-amid-eth-buying-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale&#8217;s $2.6 billion Bitcoin sale fueled weekend crash amid ETH buying spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a> slipped to its weakest level in more than a month after a major investor began unloading thousands of coins in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">Ethereum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Data from <em>CryptoSlate<\/em> show the asset trading at roughly $111,600 on Monday, down nearly 3% in a single day and its <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/insights\/642m-in-longs-wiped-out-as-btc-and-eth-lose-ground\/\">lowest mark since early July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sell-off erased gains from just a week earlier, when Bitcoin briefly rallied above $117,000 on speculation the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates in September.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, heavy selling pressure from one of the network\u2019s older and wealthier wallets reversed momentum and weighed on the broader market.<\/p>\n<h2>Whale dumps Bitcoin for Ethereum<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"973\" data-end=\"1404\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1959893739406762169\">Lookonchain<\/a>, an early Bitcoin investor who originally received more than 100,000 BTC seven years ago has been actively rotating into Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"973\" data-end=\"1404\">Over the past five days, the wallet deposited nearly 23,000 BTC, valued at about $2.6 billion, onto decentralized exchange Hyperliquid. Those sales were followed by the purchase of roughly 473,000 ETH worth $2.2 billion, along with the opening of a substantial long position.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1787\">The whale has since taken partial profits, closing more than 95,000 ETH longs at an average price of $4,735 to net $33 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1787\">Meanwhile, the proceeds have since been reinvested into additional ETH spot buys, totaling over 23,500 tokens valued at $108 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1787\">Despite trimming exposure, the address continues to hold more than 40,000 ETH in open long positions with over $11 million in unrealized gains<\/p>\n<h2>Hyperliquid leverages trading frenzy<\/h2>\n<p>The aggressive repositioning has also lifted trading activity on Hyperliquid, the largest decentralized perpetual exchange.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HyperliquidX\/status\/1959874702056567022\">platform<\/a>, spot trading volumes on the platform reached a record $3.4 billion in 24 hours, placing it second among all centralized and decentralized venues for Bitcoin spot trading. BTC trading alone accounted for $1.5 billion in volume during that period.<\/p>\n<p>It added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This [trading volume] surpassed Coinbase and Bybit BTC spot volumes combined and is close to on par with BTC\/USDT on Binance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the heavy activity helped Hyperliquid generate more than $4.7 million in trading fees in a single day. A portion of those fees was allocated to buybacks of the exchange\u2019s native HYPE token, with its subsiidary, Unit, contributing almost $1.9 million to the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin slipped to its weakest level in more than a month after a major investor began unloading thousands of coins in favor of Ethereum. Data from CryptoSlate show the asset trading at roughly $111,600 on Monday, down nearly 3% in a single day and its lowest mark since early July. 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