On-chain Evening Recap: Whales Continues to Accumulate, Short-Term Volatility May Further Expand

By: theblockbeats.news|2026/01/05 21:16:02

BlockBeats News, January 5th, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the hot whale repositioning trends from 10:00 to 20:00 today are as follows:

Bullish Camp:

The "BTC OG Insider Whale" transferred 34,244 ETH from Coinbase to Binance in the past 5 days, about $102.82 million. This move indicates that it may currently hold a leverage trading position on Binance.

Renowned "Bankruptcy Whale" James Wynn increased his BTC long position to $11.54 million, with a floating profit of $211,000; still longing $2.59 million kPEPE with 10x leverage, with a floating profit of $591,000.

The "30 Longs Whale" opened a long position on a meme coin, with an account floating profit of $124,000.

Bearish Camp:

The swing whale "pension-usdt.eth" increased its ETH short position to $63 million, with an average entry price of $3136.

The "Lightning Reversal" whale closed a losing BTC short position of $11,000, then opened a long position of 757.18 BTC (about $70.36 million) with 20x leverage.

A whale added to its BTC and ETH short positions, and opened new short positions for SOL and SUI, with a total position size of $170 million.

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