ChainCatcher message, according to Coinbob’s hot address monitoring and Coinglass monitoring, influenced by the short-term surge of BTC starting at 2 a.m. today and breaking through $90,000, a whale (0xd83…) massively rolled over its 40x leveraged BTC long position, pushing the position size up to $63.2 million. Its liquidation price and average price moved upward in sync.
Subsequently, BTC price continued to decline, currently down 2.1% from the intraday high. The address was heavily impacted at 5:02, with its BTC long position liquidated by 140 coins (approximately $12.47 million), the largest single liquidation in the past 24 hours across the network. In the following hours, it was liquidated again for 112.2 BTC (about $9.9 million), with total liquidation reaching $22.37 million.
Currently, the funds in this address account are less than $1 million. The address still holds a 40x leveraged BTC long position, with a position size of $39.81 million, an average price of $89,530, a liquidation price of $88,390, and an unrealized loss of $380,000 (-39%). This whale was previously the largest short position holder in multiple tokens including BTC and ETH, with a total holding close to $500 million. Recently, it experienced multiple liquidations, including approximately $199 million on January 22, about $120 million on January 26, and around $83 million on January 28. Afterwards, its position shifted to a long, and today it was liquidated again on the long side.
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