Whale Trader Shows $1.32 Million Net Loss on Leveraged Bitcoin and HYPE Positions

Whale Trader Shows $1.32 Million Net Loss on Leveraged Bitcoin and HYPE Positions

A Hyperliquid whale’s 40x Bitcoin short was partially liquidated after losses surged, underscoring the speed at which highly leveraged crypto derivatives positions can deteriorate.

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Fact Check
The strongest evidence is the fetched PANews article ““255枚BTC做空”巨鲸增加空仓后浮亏超400万美元,累计亏损6619万美元 | PANews,” which directly matches the claim: it says Onchain Lens observed a whale increasing 40x BTC and 25x ETH short positions, with unrealized losses over $4 million and total current losses over $41 million. That aligns closely with the statement that a whale’s 40x Bitcoin and 25x Ether shorts deepened into losses exceeding $41 million. The linked primary source URL is the Onchain Lens X post at https://x.com/OnchainLens/status/2043879820208287889, but it could not be fetched in this run, so the primary-source validation is incomplete. One other fetched PANews article was unrelated to the specific claim and therefore does not strengthen it. Overall, the available evidence supports the claim, but confidence is limited by inability to fetch the original X post and by sparse independent corroboration.
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Summary

A Hyperliquid whale opened a 40x Bitcoin short initially sized at 40.5 BTC, or about $3.02 million. The position was partially liquidated by $1.19 million about nine hours later, leaving roughly $1.82 million still open with a liquidation price of $75,119. Reported floating loss reached 125%, and the intraday loss hit $130,000 on April 14. This update describes a separate leveraged Bitcoin short on Hyperliquid and adds a new liquidation event to the broader pattern of whale-driven high-risk derivatives activity.

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