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Whales news and analysis from LC Insight: 31 stories, newest first.

Markets

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.

Markets

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.

Markets

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.

Markets

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.

Markets

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.

Markets

A $93 million shark made 28,847 trades in 30 days, lost $162,000 and doubled its gold

Two days ago Hold91cc was up $26,100 on 12,787 trades. Now it has more than twice the trades, a loss, $18.77 million in Tether Gold and a $173,000 AAVE sale.

Markets

Rumor vs record: did whales really load up on XRP as it slid to $1.10?

XRP fell 5.4% in a day and hit its lowest price since August. Posts say whales are buying the dip. We checked six viral claims. The price claims mostly hold up; the whale claims cannot be confirmed yet.

DeFi

A $216 million bitcoin whale shows a $291,600 weekly loss, but its moves look like loans

DeepSea counts an 82% win rate and a 7-day loss for an Ethereum wallet holding only cbBTC. Its trade list reads like a borrower moving collateral in and out of a lending market.

Markets

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.

Markets

Sharks "sold" $16.31 million of uniBTC on Berachain. CoinGecko saw $591 of trading

DeepSea's live feed logged two wallets moving about 212 uniBTC out on Berachain in 24 hours. One of them is a DEX pool, and CoinGecko counted less than $600 of uniBTC trading worldwide in the same day.

DeFi

The shark that took $10 million out of Aave on Arbitrum put $8.32 million back

A day after one wallet drove an $8.35 million net outflow from Aave's USDC pool, it bought back almost all of it. The 7-day net is now just minus $27,800.

Markets

One shark sold $2.59 million of LYK. The token's Arbitrum pool holds $396

DeepSea logged big shark selling in two layer 2 tokens, LayerK's LYK and Linea's LINEA. LYK's public markets were far too small to absorb what was counted.

Markets

Two sharks bought $3.74 million of USD₮0 on Unichain in a day and sold just $75,000

A day after sharks were net sellers of the dollar token on Unichain, two wallets flipped to heavy buying. One of them also bought $4 million on Optimism.

AI & RWA

Sharks bought $3.08 million of tokenized SpaceX on Arbitrum. Its DEX pool traded $56,000

Two shark wallets kept buying rSPCX and rCRCL, tokens CoinGecko lists as tokenized SpaceX and Circle stock, even as both fell. Almost none of it went through the public pool.

Markets

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.

DeFi

One shark sold $80.5 million of Aave-deposited USDT in an hour. Its 7-day loss: $1.87 million

The Ethereum wallet ending 4312 moved more than $280 million in a day, mostly in and out of Aave. DeepSea's PnL table shows it with the biggest 7-day realized loss it tracks.

DeFi

Two sharks ran $51.7 million through Aave's USDC pool on Arbitrum. Net $8.35 million out

DeepSea's 24-hour feed shows $30 million of Aave's USDC receipt token sold and $21.65 million bought. One wallet did most of the round trip.

Markets

Sharks bought $10.25 million of WLD on Optimism in a day while its price fell 4%

Thirteen big wallets made 240 WLD trades in 24 hours and net bought about $4.31 million. WLD itself fell 4% on CoinGecko.

Markets

Sharks sold $9.52 million of USD₮0 on Berachain in a day, $3.39 million in the last hour

One busy wallet made 260 shark trades on Berachain, where DeepSea logged 263 in Tether's cross-chain dollar token. A day earlier the 24-hour selling was about a quarter of the size.

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One Monad wallet bought $2.38 million of ether. Its closed trades lost $1.15 million in 30 days

Every shark trade DeepSea logged on Monad in the last 24 hours came from one wallet. It bought wrapped ether and sold fixed-yield dollar tokens.

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Shark wallets sold $7.85 million of the USD₮0 dollar token on Optimism, a day after buying it

A day ago shark wallets were buying USD₮0 on Optimism. DeepSea's feed now shows them net sellers of almost $3 million, while OP selling kept going.

Markets

Sharks bought $850,000 of Arbitrum's ARB in a day. Whales added $4.59 million in a week

DeepSea's data shows big wallets buying ARB on Arbitrum while $11.6 million more ARB left exchanges than arrived over seven days. Two stock tokens also drew shark money.

Markets

Shark wallets sold $3.55 million of Optimism's OP in a day and bought just $486,000

DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets selling Optimism's token while still parking dollars on the chain. On Berachain, a heavy seller of USD₮0 turned buyer in the last hour.

Markets

Whales sent out $317 million more than they took in last week. Where did it go?

DeepSea's wallet-to-wallet map shows $1.10 billion leaving whale wallets and $783 million coming back, while unlabeled wallets pushed a net $306 million into exchanges.

Markets

Crypto influencers made $590,000 in 30 days. Sharks in DeepSea's live feed lost $10.7 million

DeepSea's 30-day realized profit table puts its live-feed KOL wallets in the green and shark wallets deep in the red. On Hyperliquid, one KOL opened a $538,000 silver short in nine minutes.

Markets

Whales put $63 million into stablecoins and sold a net $27.6 million of other tokens

DeepSea's sector data shows big wallets moving into dollars last week, while smart money kept buying. Ethereum took most of the $66 million net inflow.

Markets

Sharks bought $3.05 million of WLD on Optimism in a day. One Monad wallet traded $15.7 million

DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets loading up on USD₮0 and WLD on Optimism, one wallet churning $15.7 million on Monad and a single $10 million Aave USDC exit on Arbitrum.

Projects

Whales and smart money put $3 million into ZAMA as it fell 14% in a week

ZAMA drew the heaviest combined buying in DeepSea's weekly data, with coins moving to cold storage. Two USD.AI tokens, CHIP and sUSDai, came next.

DeFi

Whales cut $28.9 million of LBTC in a week. Smart money bought just $127,900

Lombard's bitcoin token on Ethereum was the most sold token in DeepSea's weekly data, by a wide margin. Whales also cut $6.47 million of ARB, with DeepSea flagging moves to cold storage.

Markets

Whales sold $22.8 million of UNI while it rose 7%, and bought LINK and ARB

Big wallets used the late October bounce to sell, not buy. DeepSea's 7-day data shows whales net selling RLUSD, UNI and PEPE and making only small purchases of LINK and ARB, as bitcoin closed below $78,000 on October 29.