March 20 Update: Monitoring shows that a whale opened a position with 40x leverage when Bitcoin briefly dipped below $69,000, rapidly accumulating a position worth $2.89 million at an average price of $68,896. The position currently shows unrealized gains of approximately $66,000, representing a return rate of 89%. The whale has set a stop-loss order and plans to close the position at breakeven at $69,000.

Gate News reports that on March 19, Trade.xyz has deployed the S&P500/USDC (S&P 500, US stock market benchmark index) trading pair on the Hyperliquid platform through the HIP-3 protocol, supporting up to 50x leverage. The contract officially launched last night (March 18), and as of press time, cumulative trading volume has reached $31.5 million, with open interest rapidly climbing to $19.6 million.

Gate News, March 19 — According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the whale @Jason60704294 (username "First Set 10 Major Goals") closed a short position last night (March 18) during the market decline. The opening price was $74,238.54, the closing price was $71,129.1, and the profit from this single trade was $7.093 million. Previously, this whale's long position trade had yielded a profit of $14.668 million.

An on-chain address increased its ZEC short position again on March 17-18, currently holding approximately 17,157 ZEC with unrealized losses of $800,000, making it the largest short on-chain. The address has been consistently shorting ZEC and previously experienced significant unrealized losses before gradually turning profitable. The address also holds short positions on ETH.

According to analyst Ember's monitoring, a certain whale institution reduced positions of 12,000 ETH and 330 cbBTC on March 16, incurring a loss of $19.66 million. The institution currently still holds $603 million worth of ETH and BTC.

2026-03-15 23:15 to 2026-03-15 23:30 (UTC), BTC price declined 0.70% in just 15 minutes, with a price range of 72464.7 to 73115.9 USDT and an intraday volatility of 0.89%. The anomaly occurred during the night when liquidity was lower, with concentrated short-term selling pressure triggering market attention, and price fluctuations notably intensified compared to daytime levels. The primary driver of this anomaly was on-chain monitoring detecting multiple large BTC transfers flowing into exchanges, indicating that whales or institutions were conducting active selling operations, with selling pressure in liquidity

On March 12, among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap, River (RIVER) had the highest gain at +22.15%; Midnight (NIGHT) had the largest decline at -8.18%. Additionally, tokens such as Pi, Sky, Bittensor, and Render also showed varied gains.

On March 11, among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, Internet Computer had the largest increase, rising by 7.60%; while Midnight experienced the largest decline, dropping by 14.23%. The other top five gainers included Humanity Protocol, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance, Hyperliquid, and JUST, while the top five losers were Kite, Dogecoin, Zcash, and Jupiter.

On March 11, the on-chain address 0x17c... continued to increase its WTI crude oil short positions, adding approximately 190,006 CL short contracts, valued at $15.6 million. Currently, the short position totals $24.3 million, with an unrealized profit of $150,000, making it the largest on-chain short holder. The address also holds $1.43 million in natural gas short contracts.

The Bhutanese government transferred 175 Bitcoins on March 9, valued at approximately $11.85 million, bringing the total transfers since 2026 to $42.5 million. Bhutan currently holds about 5,400 Bitcoins, worth approximately $374 million, managed by the sovereign wealth fund. Recent transfers have been smaller in scale, significantly reduced from $60 million in July last year.