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ARK Invest's "The Bitcoin Quarterly" report for Q2 2026 indicates Bitcoin fell approximately 14% in the second quarter, closing around $58,544, and broke below three major technical moving averages. Historically, this technical pattern is often associated with bearish market conditions. The report shows that despite price pressure, Bitcoin Long-term Holders continued to accumulate, pushing their holdings to a new all-time high of approximately 14.85 million BTC, absorbing coins released during the market correction.ARK Invest stated that on-chain data is signaling signs of seller exhaustion: the supply of BTC in loss exceeds the supply in profit, and the rate of realized losses once surpassed the rate of realized profits. Historically, similar phenomena have often clustered near the bottom of market cycles.The report also pointed out that institutional demand in the Bitcoin market is facing pressure. Both corporate Bitcoin reserves (Treasury Companies) and the ETF ecosystem have shown signs of weakness:The STRC preferred stock price once fell to approximately $74.57, below its $100 par value;U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs experienced net outflows for 7 consecutive weeks, with cumulative outflows totaling approximately 70,000 BTC.ARK Invest believes that ETF outflows indicate a weakening of important marginal buying pressure for Bitcoin, but continued accumulation by long-term holders suggests a redistribution of coins is occurring within the market.The firm stated that a clear divergence is currently forming between BTC's price performance and the behavior of long-term holders. Historical data shows that such divergences can often serve as important observation signals for market cycle turning points.
A Bitcoin wallet that had been untouched since the end of 2017 transferred 5,907.56 BTC, valued at approximately $384 million, on Thursday, moving the funds to a new address. Data from Galaxy Research shows that these BTC were originally received on December 14, 2017, and were transferred in Bitcoin block 958217, around 00:15 UTC. The firm estimates that the position has appreciated by approximately $286 million compared to an average purchase price of around $17,000, representing a gain of 291%. The funds were transferred to a previously unidentified wallet, not a known exchange deposit address, and on-chain information does not indicate that the holder has sold the Bitcoin. This transfer also migrated the BTC from a legacy address starting with "1" to a newer bc1q address format.
according to Lookonchain monitoring, after suffering significant losses from shorting Hyperliquid's HYPE, whale Loracle has reopened new positions today, establishing a fresh trading strategy.It is reported that loracle.hl previously shorted HYPE, accumulating a total loss of approximately $46.46 million. Subsequently, the trader opened new positions, including going long on SKHX and shorting crude oil (#oil).His overall trading performance experienced drastic fluctuations. The account's profit and loss once peaked at around $42.87 million in gains, then reversed to a loss of $17.27 million, and currently has returned to an overall profitable state of about $2.06 million.
According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), the LAB market maker has cumulatively transferred 18.5 million LAB to Aster within the past two days, valued at approximately $18.69 million at the time of transfer.
on-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed in a personal channel post that a whale suspectedly suffered an asset theft a few hours ago, with approximately 180,900 SOL (worth about $14.2 million) being abnormally transferred. ZachXBT stated that he collaborated with another on-chain security analyst, Specter, to analyze the related transactions, identifying unusual unstaking activities and fund transfers from the Solana network across to Ethereum. It is reported that the address belongs to one of Solana's early participants and is associated with the Genesis block allocation. This unusual operation involves a large amount of SOL assets. The specific attack method, destination of the funds, and whether it was due to a private key leak have not yet been confirmed.
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), whale address yixie (@yixie10) is continuously adding to SKHX long positions on the Hyperliquid platform. The current position holds 1,840 SKHX, valued at approximately $2.79 million, with an unrealized profit of about $324,300. Additionally, the address has placed TWAP orders planning to buy approximately $1.05 million worth of SKHX again in the $1,488 to $1,520 range. This whale's historical total profit amounts to $9.42 million.
It is reported that the Bybit Dual Investment Two-Week Challenge went live at 8 PM on July 7, and the event will last for two weeks. After registering and participating, users who trade Bybit Wealth Dual Investment products can compete for the Dual Investment trading leaderboard to win desired rewards. The top 100 users who meet the base trading volume threshold can share 12,540 USDT. Exceeding the "Whale Threshold" trading volume can trigger higher "Critical Hit Rewards," up to 2,500 USDT, and the base reward for the first place will be doubled. New users additionally enjoy an exclusive reward of 100 USDT in Dual Investment trial funds.
Odaily reports, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale that accumulated 22,567 ETH between November 2025 and July 2026 appears to have sold 7,347 ETH at a loss of $4.041 million. The address initially built a position of $52.77 million worth of ETH at an average price of $2,338. Starting from April this year, it has been depositing ETH into FalconX, with the most recent deposit occurring 7 hours ago. If sold, the cumulative loss would amount to $4.196 million.
The whale entity Garrett Jin established a ZEC short position 9 days ago and increased the position again 1 hour ago. Currently, its ZEC short position is valued at approximately 15.08 million USD, with an average short entry price of 444 USD and a current unrealized loss of approximately 530,000 USD.
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), the whale address "0x50b" has closed its Ethereum short position, incurring a loss of approximately $9.386 million on this trade. As a result, the address's total PnL turned from a profit of $6.6 million to a loss of $2.3 million. Currently, the whale still holds a 20x leveraged long position of 228.7 Bitcoin.
according to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, over the past half hour, whale "sat0shi777" had a short position of 31,600 ETH (valued at $53.5 million) liquidated, which also acted as fuel for ETH's rebound. After the US stock market opened at 9:30 AM, the ETH price successfully broke through its liquidation price of $1,674. This liquidated portion of ETH incurred a loss of $4.64 million. After the liquidation, a remaining ETH short position worth $38.64 million is still held, with the latest liquidation price at $1,764, approximately $50 away from the current price.
According to Odaily, "1011 Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin pointed out in a post that there has been a clear change in market structure this week, with funds within the AI industry chain being reallocated.Change 1: Signs of a cyclical peak in Memory chipsHe stated that Micron's stock price faced resistance and fell back around the $1250 level. Despite earnings results exceeding expectations, the stock price is still declining on increasing volume, displaying typical top-forming characteristics of "weakening after good news is priced in."Concurrently, capital is rapidly flowing out of the memory chip sector. DRAM-related ETFs are experiencing declines on heavy volume, and SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics in the South Korean market are also weakening. Data shows that foreign investors have withdrawn over 100 trillion Korean Won (approximately $650 billion) from the South Korean stock market in the past two months.Change 2: Funds rotating towards AI HyperscalersHe noted that the real direction for absorbing this capital is not small and mid-cap AI concept stocks, but rather the core cloud computing giants represented by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.Last Friday, when the chip sector came under pressure, GOOG and MSFT had already stabilized on increased volume, and this week META has further strengthened this trend by rallying on high volume.Garrett Jin believes the logic behind this capital migration is the "token optimization trend." As more simple tasks are handled by low-cost models, value will gradually concentrate on the token-based billing cloud services and orchestration layers, rather than the foundational model layer. This also forms the core moat for hyperscale cloud providers. The current strategy should focus on catching up opportunities in hyperscale cloud names.
According to on-chain monitoring, Garrett Jin has again placed a $21.73 million short position in ZEC; part of it has already been executed. Meanwhile, his long BTC position is currently underwater by over $20 million.
According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), a major whale who held ETH for eight years fully liquidated their position today. This whale received 37,602 ETH (valued at approximately $31.16 million at the time) in February 2018 at an average price of ~$829 per ETH and had not sold any ETH during the eight-year period. Today, they sold their holdings in two batches: the first batch consisted of 17,598 ETH sold for 27.245 million USDS (average price: $1,548 per ETH); subsequently, they sold the remaining ~20,000 ETH entirely for 58.69 million USDS (average price: ~$1,561 per ETH). The whale’s total profit amounted to approximately $27.53 million, representing an ~88% gain.
Odaily Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, BTC has once again fallen below $60,000. The 5x leveraged long Bitcoin position held by Garrett Jin, the agent of the "1011 Insider Whale," now has an unrealized loss of $21.12 million. The opening price of his 1,268.33 BTC position was $76,117, while the mark price is $59,466, representing a decline of 21.8%.
Data shows that “10·11 Insider Whale” Garrett Jin still holds a 5x leveraged long position of 1,270 BTC. The position was opened at a price of $76,117 in May of this year and has been held for nearly 2 months. Currently, the floating loss on this trade exceeds $18.55 million, with a margin size of $15.6 million, and the liquidation price is temporarily reported at $16,964.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a whale address “0x096” — dormant for seven years — sold its entire 27,585 ETH holdings at an average price of $1,625, receiving $44.84 million in USDS and realizing a profit of $39.1 million. The whale originally purchased 27,586.48 ETH for $5.72 million. This sale was executed in batches: it first sold 1,100 ETH on June 23, cashing out $1.9 million.
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, a whale (0xa5b0...1d41) added $8 million in margin early this morning. The entity currently holds a long position of 120,000 ETH, with an unrealized loss exceeding $77.047 million.This entity is linked to four addresses, with liquidation prices of $1,174.6, $1,059.1, $1,064.7, and $1,143.6 respectively, while the entry price was approximately $2,265. There are still over 6 million USDC available on-chain to be used as margin.
According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, whale address 0xbilly liquidated 2,409 ETH (worth $3.78 million) at a price of $1,569.5 early this morning, incurring a loss of $220,000. The address had purchased this ETH one day prior at $1,660.2, with an acquisition cost of 4 million USDC.This address previously bought 7,768.5 ETH at $2,254 in March, valued at $17.51 million, and was forced to sell at a loss of $800,000 when the price dropped four days later.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, trader James Wynn has recently faced repeated liquidations. His 40x-leveraged short Bitcoin position was again partially liquidated.