BlockBeats News, January 8 — According to Coinbob’s popular address monitoring, in the past hour, the whale “pension-usdt.eth” with a 3x leverage has fully closed its ETH short position. The position size is approximately $63.5 million, opened at an average price of $3,136, with a liquidation price of $4,547. This short position was established on January 4. During the holding period, it once experienced an unrealized loss of about $3.4 million. After market fluctuations turned it into a profit, the address chose to quickly close the position and exit.
The whale continues to profit from swing trading, mainly using low leverage and short-term cycles (average holding around 23 hours) to operate on BTC and ETH. Since October, its cumulative profit has exceeded $21 million. Recently, the address has been steadily transferring its substantial profits accumulated on Hyperliquid into interest-bearing markets. Currently, its total lending on AAVE has reached approximately $26.71 million.
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