A Whale Just Opened $48 Million in Shorts Against Bitcoin, Solana and Ethereum
A freshly created wallet deposited 6.68 million USDC into Hyperliquid and opened 20x leveraged short positions against bitcoin, solana and ether worth a combined $48 million. Anatomy of the Bet Onchain analytics firm Loo...
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