On-chain Whale Activity Overview: Whale Suffers $125 Million ETH Loss in 'Rug Pull' Stop Loss, Arthur Hayes Sells Off Ethereum Ecosystem Tokens

By: theblockbeats.news|2025/11/16 12:15:50
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BlockBeats News, November 16th, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the whale movements that have been highly active on-chain in the past 24 hours are as follows:

BitMEX Co-founder Arthur Hayes today sold approximately $5 million worth of Ethereum ecosystem tokens, totaling 780 ETH ($2.48 million), 5,020,000 ENA ($1.384 million), 640,000 LDO ($480,000), 1,630 AAVE ($289,000), 28,670 UNI ($209,000), and 132,730 ETHFI ($124,000).

A certain whale address recently acquired 444,895 ETH (worth $1.39 billion) and is suspected to have started selling. The whale withdrew 177,000 ETH (worth $561.3 million) from Aave 8 hours ago and deposited 44,000 ETH (worth $140.2 million) into Binance. The whale's buying cost was around $3,437, currently facing a loss of approximately $125 million.

The largest ZEC short on Hyperliquid has been holding the position for over a month. Early this morning, an additional 5 million USDC was transferred to the account to increase the collateral. The 5x ZEC short position was opened at $360, with the current ZEC price at $686 and the liquidation price at $1,084, resulting in a floating loss of $20 million. The address has been building the ZEC short position since October 11, continuing to add to the position to average the cost during the upswing. The whale also opened a 15x ETH short, valued at $26 million, currently with a floating profit of $7 million, with an opening price of $4,094.

The "Buddy" Huang Licheng partially closed his ETH long position this morning and slightly increased the position again. Currently, his 25x ETH long position is worth approximately $25 million, with an opening price of $3,397, a liquidation price of $3,049, the current ETH price at $3,154, and a floating loss of $1.9 million. "Buddy" realized a profit of $770,000 in the past week, bringing the total account loss to $16.43 million.

A certain whale has taken large short positions on BTC, XRP, and ZEC, with a total value exceeding $190 million. The current positions are as follows:

40x short BTC position worth $148 million, opening price $96,065.2, liquidation price $97,560.2;

A 20x short position on XRP worth $27.3 million, with an entry price of $2.225 and a liquidation price of $2.5;

A 10x short position on ZEC worth $20.6 million, with an entry price of $652 and a liquidation price of $775.

The "Whale Opponent of Top 100% Win Rate" has just added to their 10x leveraged ETH short position, bringing it to $20.11 million, with an average entry price of $3186.98 and a liquidation price of $3736.89.

On Hyperliquid, the largest long position on ZEC currently holds a $22.29 million ZEC long position with 5x leverage, with a single-coin unrealized profit of $8.28 million, an entry price of $396.9, and a liquidation price of $358.44.

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