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Odaily Odaily News: Bankless co-founder David Hoffman responded to investors by disclosing his entry costs for four major tokens: NEAR, HYPE, ZEC, and LIT. Among them, the entry price for NEAR was approximately $1.40, HYPE around $45, ZEC about $560, and LIT approximately $1.35. According to previous reports, after liquidating his ETH holdings, the founder split the capital allocation, deploying 50% of the principal into VVV, NEAR, ZEC, and HYPE. The remaining 50% was kept for periodic dollar-cost averaging, with the subsequent funds fully used to purchase LIT.
Bankless co-founder David Hoffman posted on platform X, stating that after selling his ETH, he immediately allocated approximately 50% of the capital to VVV, NEAR, ZEC, and HYPE, and used the remaining funds for dollar-cost averaging into projects that have not yet seen significant price increases (NEAR was priced at around $1.40 at the time). He added that the remaining 50% of the capital has completed its position building in LIT.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, whale Loracle has closed its short positions in BTC, LIT, TON, and VVV. The HYPE short position is still being closed, with a remaining 1.518 million HYPE short position, approximately $105 million, resulting in losses exceeding $36 million. Loracle has newly opened a 10x long position in ZEC, as well as 5x long positions in ASTER and TON, and its holdings are continuing to increase.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), Loracle (@loraclexyz) has opened a new 3x short position on VVV, which is currently its only profitable position. It also holds long positions in HYPE, BTC, LIT, XYZ100, and TSLA, as well as a smaller short position in TON, with a total value of approximately $141 million and unrealized losses exceeding $30 million.
According to HyperInsight monitoring, Loracle—the largest short position holder for HYPE—placed a $75 million short order at $64 this morning. Additionally, it opened a new short position on VVV earlier today. As of press time, Loracle’s total short position value stands at $143 million. Its largest short position is 1,805,507.53 HYPE tokens, with a liquidation price of $89.
South Korean trader Definalist stated on social media that Upbit’s recent listings of WIF and VVV may involve front-running behavior. He claimed that multiple addresses funded by Upbit’s hot wallet purchased WIF prior to its listing on Upbit and rapidly sold their holdings shortly after the listing. A similar pattern was observed with VVV. Additionally, he revealed that Upbit has recently been intensively testing the STABLE token, and suspected front-running wallets also engaged in purchases of this token.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt (@ai9684xtpa), the whale address 0xead…E9D55—originally active in 2017—currently holds 42 altcoin positions on Hyperliquid, of which 40 are long positions and only VVV and MON are short positions. The total position value is $49.6 million, with a floating loss of $6.22 million. This address’s cumulative trading losses on Hyperliquid have reached $14.94 million.