The trader closed $17.68M SOL and $35.45M ETH shorts for $1.06M profit before pivoting long; lifetime PnL exceeds $25M after growing the account from $1.02M to $26.07M.
The statement is directly confirmed by a news report from Ainvest (Source 8), which explicitly mentions a '25x leveraged ETH trade that generated $283,000 in unrealized profit.' While other sources discuss similar types of high-leverage Ethereum trades, only this specific source corroborates the exact figures mentioned in the statement.
Trader 0x044d on Hyperliquid increased their account from $1.02 million to $26.07 million, booking over $25 million in profit. They recently closed $17.68 million SOL and $35.45 million ETH short positions for $1.06 million in gains, then opened a new $28.9 million ETH long using 20x leverage.