Top Whale Watch: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Weekly Fund Withdrawal Nears $100 Million, "Pal" Huang Licai Liquidated to Less Than $100k Funds Again Buying the Dip

By: theblockbeats.news|2026/01/21 14:00:22

BlockBeats News, January 21st, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor data, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" has a floating loss of $47 million. Currently, the top three long whales on the ETH holding list are all in losses. The "buddy" Huang Licheng has been liquidated repeatedly and opened long positions again, while the "on-chain gold largest long" PAXG's long position has expanded its unrealized gains. Specific information is as follows:

"BTC OG Insider Whale": The account has transitioned from profit to loss, with a floating loss of approximately $47 million. Its main holding is an ETH long position, with a loss of $42.4 million (-32%), an average price of $3161, and a holding size of approximately $663 million. In addition, it also holds BTC and SOL long positions, with the current total account holding size of approximately $817 million, a weekly account fund withdrawal of over $97 million, and is now the top long position on Hyperliquid for ETH and SOL.

"CZ Counterparty": The account has an overall floating loss of $28.3 million. The main losses come from an XRP long position, with a holding size of approximately $74 million and a loss of $15 million. In addition, its ETH long position has a floating loss of $12.62 million, a holding size of approximately $169 million, and an average price of $3190. The current total account holding size is approximately $264 million, with a weekly account fund withdrawal of over $31.34 million, and it is now the largest XRP long position on Hyperliquid.

"Buddy" Huang Licheng: During yesterday's market downturn, his ETH long position was repeatedly liquidated, resulting in a total loss of $2.549 million, with a weekly account fund withdrawal of $4.258 million and the current account funds are less than $100,000. The current position is a 25x leveraged ETH long position, with an average price of $2945, a liquidation price of $2907, and an unrealized gain of $30,000.

"pension-usdt.eth": The 3x leveraged BTC long position opened on the 16th previously has a floating loss of $6.56 million, with a holding size of approximately $89 million and an average price of $95,600.

"On-chain Gold Largest Long": This morning, its PAXG (gold) long position's unrealized gain expanded to $670,000 (34%) and then closed approximately 50% position for profit, with the current average price of $4415 and a holding size of approximately $3.58 million. Currently, it also holds long positions in several on-chain stock assets, with a total related holding of approximately $31.6 million.

"Paul Wei": The current BTC long position has an unrealized loss of about 2.3%, accounting for 12% of the total fund size, with most of the funds still in order. The BTC long/short order trigger range has been adjusted to $86,700 to $90,500, and currently a profit of $4060 has been realized.

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