Gate News message, April 29 — Bitcoin surged to $77,400 in afternoon trading today, triggering liquidations of a high-leverage whale’s three short positions on Hyperliquid, according to Hyperinsight monitoring. The combined liquidation size reached $2.6 million across the three positions.
The largest liquidation stemmed from the whale’s 40x leveraged BTC short, which saw approximately 26 BTC liquidated, valued at around $2.008 million. This represented the primary source of today’s liquidations. The address still maintains an open position size of $10.4 million, with the next liquidation price set at $77,617.
The whale’s address is 0x6048a6179dd4c29077138176f4074b871a36d1d3.
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