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According to on-chain analysis released by @Route2FI, a certain whale is holding a total value of $24 million in long positions of ARC on the Perp DEX Lighter, and is adding $360,000 every hour through TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price), continuously injecting funds to drive the bullish trend. Currently, this whale has made a profit of $5 million.The annualized funding rate for ARC contracts on Lighter has skyrocketed to 2100%, equivalent to short sellers earning about 5.7% in funding fees daily, which will attract more shorts and intensify the long-short battle. Route2FI noted that this whale's behavior is similar to the price manipulation incident involving JellyJelly on Hyperliquid. In March 2025, a whale trader on Hyperliquid heavily shorted the JELLY perpetual contract while simultaneously driving up the spot price through other accounts and on-chain, leading to the liquidation of short traders. The Hyperliquid liquidity pool HLP suffered losses after settlement, prompting the Hyperliquid team to urgently vote to delist the contract and force settlement at a very low price.Route2FI added that it is currently unclear what the whale's intentions are. The HLP of Hyperliquid will absorb liquidated positions, but the LLP of Lighter will not absorb such large positions. If the position is too large or the risk is too high, it will directly trigger the ADL automatic deleveraging mechanism, making it difficult for the whale to replicate the strategy of the JellyJelly incident successfully.

Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart posted on X platform that institutional investors submitting 13F reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reduced their Bitcoin ETF positions in the fourth quarter of 2025, with investment advisory firms and hedge funds being the two largest categories of institutions by position size, becoming the main sellers in the market.Overall, the reporting institutional investors that submitted 13F reports sold a total equivalent to approximately 25,000 Bitcoin worth of ETF shares in the fourth quarter of 2025.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, a certain "ETH Super Short" has been firmly shorting since $2,940 and recently began to reduce positions, with current floating profits expanding to $8.34 million. The short position worth $88.9 million has been gradually closed, and its current value is $16.45 million.This whale has accumulated profits of over $80.9 million through shorting ETH, and has been continuously shorting ETH on Hyperliquid since 2024, always using the highest leverage (previously 50x, currently 25x).

According to monitoring by HyperInsight and Coinglass, the market is experiencing significant volatility. Influenced by a sudden increase of 2.3% in BTC and nearly 5% in ETH at 3 AM today, multiple cryptocurrencies on Hyperliquid faced large-scale liquidations, with the largest short whale "Air Force Commander" (0xd83) encountering a total liquidation amount of $199 million. The largest single liquidation was $40.22 million, marking the largest single liquidation in nearly 24 hours across the network.This address had significantly rolled over short positions in ETH, XRP, and several other cryptocurrencies yesterday, with total holdings nearing $500 million at one point, and simultaneously became the largest short in multiple cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, PEPE, and XRP on-chain. Due to its use of a full-margin shared collateral model, related operations significantly lowered the liquidation prices of multiple cryptocurrencies. Around 3:30 AM this morning, the address faced dozens of liquidations across five cryptocurrency positions. In the past few hours, this whale has once again replenished its short positions in multiple cryptocurrencies. The specific liquidation and holding information is as follows:BTC short: Liquidation amount reached 400 coins, approximately $36.04 million, current holding size about $145 million, liquidation price $90,990;ETH short: Largest single liquidation of 13,288 coins, totaling 40,640 coins, approximately $123 million, current holding size about $96.1 million, liquidation price $3,073;PEPE short: Liquidation amount approximately $7.41 million; current holding size about $13.3 million, liquidation price $0.00579;XRP short: Liquidation amount reached 14.88 million coins, approximately $29.07 million, fully liquidated;HYPE short: Liquidation amount reached 185,700 coins, approximately $4.01 million; current holding size about $13.11 million, liquidation price $24.64;

According to market news, address 0xD83...Fd7 has expanded its $3 million principal to $10 million through rolling operations over the past five days. Its current total value of short positions in BTC and ETH amounts to $250 million, consisting of 1,640 BTC (nominal value of $150 million) and 31,093 ETH (nominal value of $100 million). As the prices of cryptocurrencies have fallen, the trader has increased their BTC short position again one hour ago, with current floating profits totaling $6.81 million.

According to Coinbob's popular address monitoring, the ZEC price briefly dropped by 6.4%, hitting a low of $449 before rebounding to around $465. During this fluctuation, the largest long whale on Hyperliquid (0x152) saw its position shift from profit to loss, and then decisively increased its position near $459, adding 2,486 ZEC (approximately $1.14 million) within 10 minutes. Over the past 20 hours, it has cumulatively increased its long position by 9,871 ZEC (approximately $4.54 million). Currently, this whale holds a 10x leveraged long position in ZEC, with a scale of about $12.35 million and an average price of $463.Additionally, Coinbob monitoring shows that the "largest short" whale in ZEC is still at a floating loss and has not adjusted its ZEC short position recently, with a current position size of about $17.48 million and an average price of $419, resulting in a floating loss of $1.64 million (47%). Meanwhile, the "altcoin short army leader" has been continuously increasing its ZEC short position over the past few hours, currently raising its ZEC short position size to $2.08 million and is still continuing to add to it.

Crypto trader Ran Neuner posted that the current market is completely in a risk-on mode, but most people are oblivious to it because Bitcoin's price has not fluctuated significantly.Currently, silver prices have reached an all-time high and are in a phase of breakout and acceleration; silver is the beta of gold, indicating risk appetite. The ETH/BTC pair has now broken above the 50-week moving average and is still climbing, with ETH representing the risk appetite of the cryptocurrency market. The Russell 2000 index has also broken out, representing the risk appetite of the stock market. Additionally, the printing press has been activated, with the Federal Reserve shifting to quantitative easing policies earlier than expected.He stated that Bitcoin sellers will soon disappear, and a massive chase trading is about to begin.

CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju stated that Bitcoin whales have been continuously selling billions of dollars since the price reached $100,000. He mentioned that he had judged the bull market cycle to be over at the beginning of this year, but it was postponed due to the inflow of funds from MicroStrategy and Bitcoin spot ETFs.If these buying pressures fade, the market may once again be dominated by sellers. Currently, selling pressure remains heavy, but if the macro outlook stays strong, this may be an opportunity to accumulate at lower prices.

ChainCatcher news, CryptoQuant analyst Axel posted on social media that since July 31, traders have started to actively close long positions, and a significant sell-off has occurred in the futures market over the past 24 hours: when the price dropped to a local low of $112,000, the 6-hour net buying volume fell to an extreme level of -$175 million, reflecting the strong stance of the bears.As the market has partially stabilized, the pressure on this indicator has reduced to -$78 million, with the negative gap narrowing by 2.2 times, but the overall market imbalance still leans towards the bears. The open interest in the past 24 hours has increased to the range of $3.04 billion, with sellers continuously accumulating positions, attempting to take advantage of the bearish sentiment in the market.

ChainCatcher message, the founder of the over-the-counter trading platform STIX, Taran, posted on X: "I have received contacts from a dozen WLFI sellers (holding 7 to 8 figures) who hope to sell over-the-counter at any price above cost, but there are very few buyers..."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, data and analytics company Ortex Technologies shows that from April 2 to Monday, short sellers targeting U.S. companies made a paper profit of $127 billion.The data indicates that from the beginning of 2025 to Monday, the short selling profits against U.S. companies with a market capitalization of $1 billion and above amounted to $189 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Crypto.news, based on CryptoSlam data, the NFT trading volume in the past 7 days has dropped to $112.7 million. This is a decrease of 35.15% compared to the previous week. However, market participation has significantly increased, indicating that despite the lower overall value, interest from new traders is rising. The number of NFT buyers surged by 624.41% to 203,994; the number of NFT sellers increased by 519.61% to 158,805; and the number of NFT transactions slightly decreased by 1.41% to 1,443,007.Ethereum network trading volume decreased by 41.25% to $56 million, while the number of buyers rose by 81.43% to 30,598. The Mythos Chain network ranked second with a trading volume of $13.9 million, an increase of 4.66%. The Solana network, despite a 32.56% decline, maintained its third position with $11 million. The Polygon (formerly MATIC) network performed strongly, ranking fourth with a trading volume of $8.1 million, an increase of 10.76%. The Bitcoin network fell to fifth place with a trading volume of $6.7 million, a decrease of 71.42%.The best-selling NFTs of the week are as follows:Uncategorized Ordinals #8912771: $7,749,449 (80.1296 BTC)CryptoPunks #2550: $331,955 (125 ETH)CryptoPunks #793: $146,683 (53.5 ETH)CryptoPunks #9634: $128,988 (47.5 ETH)CryptoPunks #9701: $122,883 (45 ETH)

According to ChainCatcher news and reported by Blocworks, the latest compilation of internal stock sales from about 60 companies in the 2024 S&P 500 index shows that approximately 500 insiders, executives, investors, and other major shareholders reported selling a total of $36.9 billion in company stock.Among them, four crypto executives' sales amounts made it into the top 25.Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong ranks eighth with $636 million, while MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor ranks thirteenth with $410.8 million.Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam ranks 22nd with $203.8 million, which includes the COIN shares sold by his trust and the sales from the fund Paradigm. Following Ehrsam is Coinbase COO Emilie Choi, with a sales amount of $186.4 million. These amounts place Coinbase seventh on last year's internal sales leaderboard (at least among the analyzed companies).

ChainCatcher message, 10x Research pointed out in the latest market report that Bitcoin has fallen below the important technical and psychological level of $60,000. This is a key level for Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin spot ETF buyers, and it roughly marks the bottom (support level) of a three-month trading range.With the support level broken, sellers are scrambling for liquidity, and the price may accelerate downward. Only uninformed traders would be willing to buy here. A break below this support level could lead to a sharp decline in price to below $50,000.

ChainCatcher news, ORTEX indicates that GameStop short sellers are set to lose $1.2 billion based on a pre-market price of $48.75 on Tuesday. As GameStop's stock price soared on Tuesday, GameStop short sellers have lost $2.5 billion so far this month.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana ecosystem meme project Slerf announced on social media that it has refunded over $1 million to SLERF presale participants.

ChainCatcher message, Meme project SLERF founder @Slerfsol posted on X platform: "No matter what, I messed up, we will keep trying, and I will do my best to solve this issue. We are fully committed to doing everything we can to restore the presale participants."

ChainCatcher news, the rise in Bitcoin prices has helped MicroStrategy's stock price increase by 180% year-to-date. According to data disclosed by S3 Partners, short sellers of MicroStrategy stock have lost approximately $3.3 billion year-to-date. If short sellers are forced to buy back shares to cover their losses, MicroStrategy's stock price may rise further and squeeze the short sellers.

ChainCatcher news, according to Dune data, the number of unique buyers in the NFT market OpenSea has surpassed 2.3 million, currently at 2,399,020; the number of unique sellers has exceeded 1.76 million, currently at 1,764,388.