BTC $63,304.93 +0.49%
ETH $1,893.77 +0.75%
BNB $604.05 -0.47%
XRP $0.9974 -0.40%
SOL $75.31 -0.06%
TRX $0.3328 +0.60%
DOGE $0.0701 +0.54%
ADA $0.1748 -1.29%
BCH $204.71 +0.39%
LINK $9.40 -0.08%
HYPE $59.17 +3.10%
AAVE $85.93 +0.06%
SUI $0.6753 -0.34%
XLM $0.1572 +0.17%
ZEC $509.90 +4.28%
BTC $63,304.93 +0.49%
ETH $1,893.77 +0.75%
BNB $604.05 -0.47%
XRP $0.9974 -0.40%
SOL $75.31 -0.06%
TRX $0.3328 +0.60%
DOGE $0.0701 +0.54%
ADA $0.1748 -1.29%
BCH $204.71 +0.39%
LINK $9.40 -0.08%
HYPE $59.17 +3.10%
AAVE $85.93 +0.06%
SUI $0.6753 -0.34%
XLM $0.1572 +0.17%
ZEC $509.90 +4.28%

Data: "ZEC's largest short seller" reduces its ZEC short position, releasing funds to short BTC and ETH with a scale of 17 million

2026-05-12 18:18:15

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, ZEC has fallen from its peak to around $550. The "largest short seller of ZEC" continued to stop-loss and reduce their ZEC short position in the afternoon, with a cumulative closing scale exceeding $5 million. This address previously had a ZEC short position of $12.6 million, and after the reduction, the remaining position is about $8.02 million, with a current floating loss of about $1.17 million.

This short position was opened on March 10 at an average price of about $210, coinciding with a recent local low. At one point, the floating loss reached as high as $2.4 million, enduring several months of holding and averaging down until ZEC experienced a phase correction.

The margin released from reducing ZEC was quickly redirected by this address to short BTC and ETH: a BTC short position was opened shorting 160 coins with 20x leverage, briefly pushing the scale up to $13 million, with an average price of $80,441; an ETH short position was opened shorting 1,866 coins with 15x leverage, with a scale of $4.27 million, at an average price of $2,286. As of the time of writing, both short positions are still being increased.

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