Gate News message, trader Rune (@RuneKek) has closed his long positions in $CL and $BRENTOIL, along with his short position in $SP500. The total loss from these positions exceeds $735K.

Gate News message, April 28 — Rune Christensen, founder of Sky Protocol, published a proposal on the Sky governance forum on April 24 to permanently exit the protocol's bootstrap funding phase following the transfer of Genesis Capital to Grove, an institutional credit allocator in the Sky Agent

Gate News message, April 28 — Sky has proposed a comprehensive reform of its treasury income allocation mechanism, according to founder Rune Christensen. With Genesis Capital transferred to Grove, Sky has formally concluded its genesis capitalization phase, ending the previous ad-hoc,

Gate News message, April 27 — Sky, the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, has proposed streamlining its Treasury Management Function (TMF) following the formal conclusion of its founding capital deployment phase. Founder Rune Christensen announced in a forum po

On April 8, Hyperbot data showed that as the price of Brent crude oil fell below $90 per barrel, multiple leveraged trading positions held by Rune, the founder of Sky (formerly MakerDAO), suffered losses across the board; their total value dropped to approximately $3.952 million, with an unrealized loss of more than $610,000.

Gate News message shows that on March 23rd, Onchain Lens monitoring detected that Sky co-founder Rune opened a new 20x leverage long position in $GOLD (gold) during a price decline period at $GOLD . At the same time, Rune is closing out a previously held $SP500 position.

On March 22, after Trump issued a "48-hour ultimatum," crude oil prices rose. Sky founder Rune's multiple leveraged positions were profitable, with a structure including a 20x leveraged WTI crude oil long position with unrealized gains of approximately $155,000, a 7x leveraged Brent crude oil long position with unrealized gains of approximately $130,000, and total position value reaching approximately $11.55 million.

According to Gate News, a Rune-associated address, co-founder of MakerDAO, recently opened a short position on the S&P 500 index, with positions increasing to $4.66 million. Meanwhile, the address holds $13.6 million in crude oil long positions and $6.1 million in U.S. stocks short positions, totaling over $20 million, possibly betting on economic stagflation.

Gate News reports that on March 19, Sky co-founder Rune Christensen conducted trading operations on the HyperliquidX platform, using 20x leverage to short the S&P 500 Index (the benchmark index of the US stock market). At the same time, Rune increased the size of his long position in Brent crude oil (the international benchmark for crude oil prices), currently using 7x leverage. Additionally, TWAP orders are running to further increase the position.

On March 17, WTI crude oil futures surged more than 3% intraday, with daily gains expanding to 5.5%, and CL prices reaching $97.5, benefiting on-chain long positions. MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen's long positions saw unrealized gains of $310,000, while short whale positions exceeding $10 million in holdings faced unrealized losses.