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A $101 million shark lost $1.21 million in a week, then sold 11 altcoins in two minutes

Hold91cc, an Ethereum wallet we have followed since November 8, now trades about $1.24 billion a month. Its 30-day result has turned to a $1.14 million loss.

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Sharks' weekly loss quadrupled to $10.5 million. Yesterday's top wallet is down $1.35 million

In about 30 hours, DeepSea's 7-day table went from minus $2.56 million to minus $10.50 million for big traders. The best wallet this time made just $121,574.

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A shark sold 29.17 million WLD for $8.49 million in one trade as bitcoin fell below $70,000

An Optimism wallet that DeepSea tags as a shark dumped about 0.78% of all circulating WLD overnight. Its closed trades are down $2.83 million in 30 days.

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ARB fell 8% after one wallet's $3.17 million buy. Shorts now pay on 79% of its futures bets

Sharks bought $3.65 million of Arbitrum's ARB in a day and sold $9,135, DeepSea's data show. The price kept sliding, and on most futures markets traders betting on a fall now pay those betting on a rise.

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A shark lost $4.03 million on 7 trades in a week, then bought $468,070 of a SpaceX token

A single BNB Chain wallet now accounts for more than half of the sharks' net loss on DeepSea's 7-day table. In the past day, the same address spent nearly half a million dollars on a SpaceX stock token on Arbitrum.

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A shark lost $1.21 million on four chains in a week, then sold $1.36 million on Optimism

The wallet DeepSea calls Hold1f17 shows realized losses on all four chains it traded this week. In the last 24 hours it also made the largest sell-only move of any shark.

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Two Avalanche wallets made 3,121 trades in a day, five times Monday's pace, and ended near even

DeepSea's shark table shows $4.86 million of bridged ether and bitcoin bought on Avalanche and $4.72 million sold. Almost all of it came from the same two wallets, swapping back and forth.

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Bitcoin fell 8.5% in a week, XRP 20%, zcash 25%. Sharks did not dump bitcoin or ether

CoinGecko's 7-day numbers show the big coins sliding together. DeepSea's 24-hour shark table shows big wallets near flat on bridged bitcoin and ether, buying ARB and WLD and selling OP.

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Sharks sold $3.64 million of OP in a day, $1.3 million more than they bought

DeepSea's 24-hour table puts Optimism's own token at the top of shark selling across every chain it tracks. OP is down 12.5% in a week on CoinGecko and 98% below its record.

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75 of 102 shark wallets lost money this week. One BNB Chain wallet made $967,000

DeepSea's 7-day profit table shows big traders down $2.56 million on closed trades, winning one trade in three. A single wallet made 80% of all the gains.

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One wallet bought $3.17 million of ARB in one trade, a day after its $3.29 million CHIP buy

DeepSea's 24-hour table shows Arbitrum sharks bought $3.65 million of ARB and sold $771. Most of it came from one wallet that Etherscan shows holding 135 million ARB.

DeFi

A Monad shark put $3.6 million into earnAUSD, a fifth of the yield token's market value

The busiest shark on Monad bought $16 million of tokens in a day, mostly dollar tokens. Its biggest one-way bet was a yield version of AUSD that CoinGecko values at $17.7 million.

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Optimism sharks lost $293,000 in a week, 20 of 24 in the red, yet bought $1.41 million of WLD

DeepSea's PnL table shows a bad week for big wallets on OP Mainnet. In the last day they bought more WLD than they sold and sold more OP than they bought.

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The week's top shark made $1.52 million on 3,619 trades, then sold $369,000 of BTCB

The BNB Chain wallet that bought $5.4 million of ether three days ago leads every wallet in DeepSea's 7-day profit table. At 12:34 a.m. ET it sold 5 BTCB in one trade.

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One wallet bought 5% of all circulating CHIP in a single $3.29 million trade

DeepSea logged an $18.4 million Arbitrum shark wallet buying USD.AI's CHIP token as it traded 50% below its price of a month ago. Arbiscan shows the wallet now holds 100 million CHIP.

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Sharks bought $36.4 million of RLUSD in a day. Over the week, whales sold $12 million net

Two wallets made 37 trades in Ripple's stablecoin in 24 hours. One of them, with $97 million on DeepSea, swaps it in blocks of up to $4.5 million.

AI & RWA

Sharks sold $19 million of gold tokens in a day, a day after buying $8.1 million of XAUt

A handful of big wallets sold $10.5 million of PAXG and $8.5 million of Tether Gold and bought back $2.8 million. Both tokens slipped about 0.9%.

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Sharks sold $584,000 of ARB in a day, nearly 4 to 1, as the token edged up 1.1%

Four days after shark wallets bought $850,000 of Arbitrum's token, the flow reversed. One wallet also sold tokenized Circle shares in the last hour.

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Unichain sharks sold $2.12 million of USD₮0, three days after sharks bought $3.74 million

The flow on Unichain's dollar token flipped. A wallet that was not among Friday's buyers did almost all the selling.

DeFi

One Monad shark made 267 of 268 trades in a day. Its 30-day loss grew to $1.35 million

One wallet made almost every shark trade DeepSea tracked on Monad, cycling $7.1 million through two dollar tokens. Its losses keep growing.

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Two Avalanche shark wallets made 580 small trades in bridged ETH and BTC as AVAX rose 8%

DeepSea's Avalanche shark feed looked crowded on Monday night. It was mostly two wallets swapping bridged ether and bitcoin back and forth in small pieces.

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429 sharks traded LINK in a day, triple any other Ethereum token, buying $14.1 million

Chainlink's token was the most crowded shark trade on Ethereum as ether fell 5%. Uniswap's UNI drew under a third as many wallets, and they were net sellers.

AI & RWA

80 sharks bought $8.1 million of Tether's gold token as ether fell 5%, while PAXG was sold

While ether dropped 5%, large wallets on DeepSea's live feed piled into XAUt. The rival gold token, PAXG, went the other way.

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One shark put $49.7 million into Aave USDT as ether fell 5%, and holds $129 million in gold

The same shark wallet we covered on November 5 is back, buying Aave's USDT receipt in five steps. It also holds $129 million of tokenized gold, second only to its restaked ether.

DeFi

A shark bought $2.46 million of staked ether on Monad. DeepSea sees $116 of liquidity

The largest single shark buy of the last day came in three trades on ether's down day. The token's pools on Monad that DeepSea tracks hold only $116, so the buy did not run through them.

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Sharks sold $12.85 million of tokens and bought $7.98 million as ether fell 4.7%

DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets were net sellers on ether's down day. A dollar token on Optimism took most of the selling, and one Monad wallet bought $2.46 million of staked ether.

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A shark bought $612,100 of OP in one trade. Nine hours later its wallet held no OP

An Optimism wallet DeepSea calls Hold9675 bought 6.03 million OP on Saturday night, about 3% of the token's daily trading. Its page now shows no OP among its holdings.

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A shark lost $1.64 million on 5,488 trades in 30 days, then bought $155,000 of DEBIT

DeepSea's page for a shark wallet ending in 1f17 shows losses on BNB Chain, Ethereum and Optimism. On Sunday morning it kept trading: gold tokens out, small caps in.

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A $100 million Ethereum shark traded $450 million in 30 days. Its profit: $26,100

Three quarters of the wallet sits in three dollar tokens. In four minutes from 12:30 a.m. ET it bought $340,000 of Ripple's RLUSD, sold $131,000 of LINK and made 18 buys of under $10 each.

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A shark sold $13.4 million of bitcoin, ether and JCT in minutes. The buyer made 81,836 trades in a month

A BNB Chain wallet that DeepSea shows down $1.75 million in 30 days sold three tokens just after midnight ET and now holds $28.7 million in a dollar token. DeepSea logs the buyer of its ether and JCT as one of the most active wallets it tracks.

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One Mantle shark swapped ether tokens 208 times in a day. Its 30-day result: minus $2,400

The wallet traded about $314,000 between WETH and Mantle's staked ether token in 24 hours. After 2,219 closed trades in 30 days, it is slightly in the red.

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An Ethereum shark was down $159,600 for the month. Two days later it's up $18,100

DeepSea's PnL table shows one wallet's 30-day result swing by $130,000 in less than a day of closed trades, while ether went nowhere for the week. It now has the best 7-day result of any Ethereum shark with a 7-day figure.

DeFi

An Avalanche shark swapped $1.45 million of Aave USDC deposits for Benqi's in two trades

DeepSea logged the switch as both the second-largest net shark buy and the second-largest net shark sell of the day across all chains. The wallet's closed trades in the last 30 days: five, all winners.

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CYBER jumped 53% in about a day, then gave back 20%. Sharks on Optimism bought $668,000

CoinGecko shows the small-cap CYBER token trading four times its market value in 24 hours, with South Korea's Upbit the busiest market. DeepSea's shark wallets were net buyers on Optimism over a day in which the price fell.

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DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders: $256 million in weekly profit, then $110 million

The 7-day profit shown for the crash-week winners on DeepSea's boards fell by more than half in 24 hours. The top two influencers' figures halved, and sharks are still down $3.15 million on closed trades.

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71 of 100 shark wallets lost money on closed trades in crash week, $5.85 million in all

DeepSea's realized profit table shows large traders came out behind as bitcoin fell. Three wallets made up 63% of the loss, and one Optimism wallet won 3 of 61 trades.