
Recent whale activity shows $7.9 million USDC deposits across two wallets, with large ETH and ADA buy orders placed after earlier high-leverage short positions on ETH and XMR.
On January 17, Onchain Lens reported that two wallets from the same whale deposited a combined $7.9 million USDC to HyperLiquid. Wallet 0x8Fc placed ETH buy orders at $3,267.2–$3,275.7 and ADA buy orders at $0.3851–$0.3888, while wallet 0xCe8 placed ETH buy orders at $3,267.3–$3,273.5. This activity follows the whale’s January 16 deposit of 3 million USDC to HyperLiquid and opening of leveraged shorts totaling $61.59 million in ETH and XMR, indicating a complex trading strategy that mixes bullish positions in ETH and ADA with a prior bearish outlook on ETH and XMR.