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Killa posted on platform X, stating that it believes the bottom for Bitcoin has already appeared. From the current level to $126,000, the maximum pullback in this bull market is expected to be around 10% to 15%. If Bitcoin forms a local high near $87,000 before further dropping to just above $70,000, that area may become the bottom for Bitcoin; if it reaches the relevant price level, it will significantly increase the continuation of the upward trend for long positions.Killa stated that Bitcoin is currently testing a key area near $80,000. If it can hold the previously broken range high, the upward trend may continue; it will only consider shorting near $90,000.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, @XXAntiWar (0xfe57...d850) has started its third battle after returning:Building a long position: A total expenditure of approximately 1.787 million USD, with an average price below 0.086 USD. If not sold, the expected profit exceeds 750,000 USD;Shorting ZEC: Shorted 5,199.97 ZEC at 1,273 USD, with a position value of approximately 6.62 million USD, and closed the position at 1,145.4 USD, realizing a profit of 660,000 USD;Going long on PONS: Went long on 4,765,400 PONS at 0.5984 USD, with a position value of approximately 3.15 million USD, currently floating a profit of 308,000 USD.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale previously shorted $49.59 million worth of BTC with 4x leverage, and after holding the position for less than 7 hours, they stopped out with a loss of $114,000.This address had also shorted BTC twice before, both times closing with losses, accumulating a total loss of $547,000 from three short positions. Currently, this whale still holds a long position of 20,000 ETH with 4x leverage, with an unrealized profit of approximately $10.71 million.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain whale was liquidated after shorting a position of $38.07 million in BTC with 20x leverage, losing $288,000 after holding the position for about 60 hours.Since switching to a short strategy on August 19, this address has failed to trade for the 16th consecutive time, with a total loss of approximately $5.25 million in the past month.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a newly created wallet deposited 5 million USDC into Hyperliquid, opening short positions of 8,155 ETH ($20.33 million) and 247.6 BTC ($19.49 million) with 20x leverage.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the "Set 10 Big Goals" has reopened on Binance after a month (July 27). Currently, the total value of its short positions in BTC and ETH contracts is approximately 222 million USD, with a cumulative floating profit of about 401,000 USD.In terms of BTC, it holds a 4x leveraged short position, totaling 2,236.384 BTC, with a position value of approximately 156 million USD, and the opening price was 69,826.87 USD, currently with a floating profit of about 369,000 USD.In terms of ETH, it holds a 6x leveraged short position, totaling 29,316.677 ETH, with a position value of approximately 66.1 million USD, and the opening price was 2,254.74 USD, currently with a floating profit of about 32,000 USD.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale shorted 1,600 BTC with 40x leverage yesterday, worth 102 million USD, with a liquidation price of 64,889 USD. Subsequently, it set stop-loss orders in the price range of 64,885 USD to 68,254 USD, with 50 BTC for each order.At 4 AM, BTC rebounded to 65,000 USD, triggering its 4 stop-loss orders, reducing its position by 200 BTC, worth 13 million USD, and realizing a loss of 146,000 USD. Currently, the whale still holds a short position of 1,400 BTC, worth 90.54 million USD, with the latest liquidation price at 64,998 USD.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, in the past half hour, a certain address withdrew 2,440,000 U from OKX and transferred it to Hyperliquid, then opened a short position worth 102 million dollars in Bitcoin:native with 40x leverage, with a short price of 64,202 dollars and a liquidation price of 64,889 dollars, which is about 900 dollars away from the current price.

According to Mlm onchain monitoring, the whale trader Loracle has currently established and is continuously increasing a gold long position worth over 23 million USD, while opening a short position in ETH worth over 28 million USD and a short position in SNDK worth over 8 million USD.

The founder of the Liebit Mining Pool (B.TOP), Jiang Zhuoer, stated in a post that after this round of market trends, he will no longer short ETH and will instead short BTC. He will use WBETH as margin to short an equivalent amount of BTC spot.The reason is: MSTR can foresee that it will not increase its BTC holdings for a long time in the future; BitMine is still buying ETH; combined with the development of RWA and other factors, this bear market may repeat the last one, with BTC and ETH reaching their lowest points at different times. The last round's lowest point for ETH was on June 18, 2022, when ETH was $881.56 and BTC was $17,622, with an exchange rate of 0.05. The last round's lowest point for BTC was on November 21, 2022, when ETH was $1,079.76 and BTC was $15,476, with an exchange rate of 0.0698. In this round, there is a possibility that ETH will reach a low of $1,505.68 on June 6, 2026, so he has decided to short BTC. BTC has already fallen below the rising channel, while ETH is still at the lower edge of the rising channel.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the largest short position in ETH, pension-usdt.eth, holds 50,000 ETH short contracts, worth approximately $93.3 million, currently facing an unrealized loss of about $8.31 million.This whale has historically accumulated a profit of $35.6 million.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, a newly created wallet address deposited $10 million USDC into Hyperliquid and then established a short position on CXMT, with the specific holdings as follows:• Opened position: 1x short of 514,357 CXMT, valued at approximately $3.8 million • Pending order for additional position: limit short order of 490,000 CXMT (approximately $4.17 million), with the trigger price range set between $8 and $9.

According to Lookonchain, a trader made over 9 million dollars in profit by shorting the token ESPORTS on the decentralized trading platform Aster DEX in less than a month, with a return of approximately 806%.The trader deposited 1 million USDT into Aster on June 18, opening a 1x leverage short position on ESPORTS. Subsequently, part of the position was closed, realizing a profit of 4.28 million dollars, while still holding approximately 137.73 million ESPORTS short positions (with an unrealized profit of about 1.95 million dollars). There is still about 4.77 million dollars in unrealized gains in the account. Currently, the trader has withdrawn the initial investment of 1 million dollars from Aster, leaving a remaining balance of 9.05 million dollars, all of which is profit.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain trader achieved 23 consecutive wins in BTC trading over the past 3 days, accumulating a profit of 1.23 million dollars. Subsequently, they opened a new short position of 1,040 BTC (70 million dollars) with 20x leverage, currently facing an unrealized loss of 874,000 dollars, with a liquidation price of 70,084.9 dollars.

According to CoinDesk, newly unsealed court documents show that Wall Street quantitative trading giant Jane Street is accused of obtaining insider non-public information from Terraform Labs through a private Telegram group called "Bryce's Secret" before the collapse of Terra in 2022, and preemptively selling approximately $192 million UST while establishing short positions, profiting about $134 million during the collapse of the Terra ecosystem, which was around $40 billion.The lawsuit claims that Jane Street sold approximately $85 million UST on Curve just 9 minutes after Terraform withdrew $150 million liquidity from the Curve pool on May 7, 2022, with the related wallet subsequently suspected of being a significant address that contributed to the UST depegging.Jane Street denies the allegations, stating that the lawsuit is "baseless" and that it will actively defend itself. The lawsuit also names co-founder Robert Granieri and trader Michael Huang, accusing them of violating federal securities laws and the Commodity Exchange Act.

According to CoinDesk, former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner has increased his disclosed investment size from $5.5 billion to $13.67 billion as of March 31, 2026, and has significantly bought shares in Bitcoin mining companies and AI infrastructure companies.His key holdings include mining companies such as IREN, Core Scientific, Riot Platforms, CleanSpark, Bitfarms, Bitdeer, and Hive Digital, betting that their power resources and data center capabilities will benefit from the growing demand for AI computing power.At the same time, he has also established a short position of approximately $7.46 billion in semiconductors, including large put option positions on the VanEck Semiconductor ETF, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Broadcom.

According to Arkham monitoring, the well-known KOL "CBB" has just deposited $2 million into Hyperliquid to support his stock perpetual contract trading on the tradeXYZ platform. His largest position is shorting $20 million of Micron Technology (MU), which has currently incurred a loss of $3 million.Since the portfolio peak recorded 40 days ago, he has accumulated a loss of $14.49 million.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a whale address deposited 2 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a short position of 80,000 contracts of BRENTOIL with 3x leverage, betting on a decline in oil prices.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, in the past hour, after BTC rebounded above $77,000, two whales on the Hyperliquid platform simultaneously opened 40x leveraged BTC short positions near this price level, with a total size of approximately $9 million and an average price of about $77,100.The liquidation lines for both addresses are set near $77,900, less than 1% away from the opening average price.