According to @EvgenyGaevoy, Wildcat Labs has launched a new open-term WBTC market in collaboration with Wintermute. This market offers borrowing capacity of up to 200 WBTC at an annual percentage rate (APR) of 3.5%, with a 24-hour withdrawal window. This initiative is expected to provide traders with enhanced liquidity options for WBTC-based transactions.

According to @lookonchain, Whale 24BLFj has made significant trading moves by selling Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) to purchase PUMP tokens. Over the past three days, the whale sold 75 WBTC, equivalent to $5.08 million, through Wintermute and acquired 2.07 billion PUMP tokens worth $4.04 million. This activity highlights a strategic portfolio shift, potentially indicating confidence in PUMP's prospects.

According to Lookonchain, four wallets, potentially owned by the same entity, recently sold 395 WBTC worth $26.5M at an average price of $67,063. This comes five months after the entity swapped TBTC for WBTC at a significantly higher price of $114,334. The sale resulted in a total loss of $18.68M, highlighting the risks and volatility associated with cryptocurrency trading.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, four blockchain addresses, suspected to belong to the same whale or entity, have sold 395.25 WBTC valued at $26.54 million over the past 4 hours. The transactions were executed via Cowswap at an average price of $67,156 per WBTC. The wallets have now completely liquidated their WBTC holdings and converted them into DAI. This significant movement could signal a strategic market play or portfolio reallocation.

According to @EmberCN, an on-chain transaction revealed that a wallet holder liquidated 115.6 WBTC, incurring a loss of $4.48 million. The WBTC was purchased at a cost of $105,431 per token and sold at $67,070 per token. The sale converted the WBTC into 7.753 million DAI.

According to @EmberCN, a crypto whale executed a profitable trading strategy, turning $8.1 million into $8.9 million via two transactions. Initially, the whale sold XAUt for $5,315 per unit, gaining $600K, and used the proceeds to purchase 125.9 WBTC at $69,091 each. Subsequently, they sold the WBTC at $70,736 each, securing an additional $200K profit. This highlights the strategic trading opportunities in the crypto market.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, a crypto whale associated with address 0x7c7...1F7e6 accumulated $5.59 million worth of WBTC and ETH during a market rebound. The whale executed an on-chain purchase of 1,481.67 ETH at $1,995 each and 37.62 WBTC at $67,604 each. These assets have since been transferred to address 0x0EA...34a54. Despite widespread market noise, the price of both cryptocurrencies showed resilience during the accumulation period.

According to @EmberCN, a whale reduced their leveraged long positions by selling 3,809 ETH and 67.1 WBTC for a combined total of $12.03 million. The proceeds were used to repay their USDT leverage loans on a lending platform. This action reflects potential caution in the crypto market, especially regarding Ethereum (ETH) and Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC).

According to @OnchainLens, a crypto whale sold 1,636.67 XAUT for 125.92 WBTC at a valuation of $8.62 million, achieving a profit of $533,579. The whale had purchased the XAUT for $8.09 million a month earlier, demonstrating a strategic trading move in the volatile cryptocurrency market.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, a wallet address (0x7E0…0B365) that accumulated 195.29 WBTC at an average price of $45,000 during December 2023 to July 2024 has begun offloading its holdings. Recently, 30 WBTC were deposited to Binance, with a total of 60 WBTC sent in the past three weeks, potentially yielding a $1.125 million profit if sold. The wallet still retains 60 WBTC across multiple addresses.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, a trader using wallet address 0xa29…BAc21 has purchased 61.93 WBTC worth $4.092 million through leveraged long strategies within the past 17 hours. The average acquisition cost was $66,082.5 per WBTC. Currently, the trader has collateralized 118.83 WBTC and borrowed 4.1 million USDT with a health ratio of 1.72. This activity signals a strong bullish sentiment in the market for Bitcoin-backed assets.

According to Onchain Lens, a wallet suspected to be linked to the Infini Hacker executed a significant transaction, swapping 3,003 ETH (valued at $5.89M) for 87 WBTC at a rate of $67,700 per Bitcoin. The WBTC was then transferred to another wallet, raising concerns and attention within the blockchain analytics community.

According to @lookonchain, the UXLINK exploiter recently spent 10.88 million DAI to purchase 5,493 ETH at a price of $1,981 per ETH. Additionally, on January 30, the exploiter invested 16.87 million DAI to acquire 203 WBTC worth $13.31 million at the time, which has since decreased in value by $3.56 million. These movements highlight significant trading activity and potential losses in the exploiter's portfolio.

According to OnchainLens, World Liberty Finance has sold a total of 173 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) for $11.75 million USDC within the past 10 hours. This includes a recent sale of 100 WBTC for $6.71 million USDC. These transactions signal significant activity in WBTC-to-USDC conversions, potentially impacting liquidity and trading dynamics for WBTC holders.

According to @OnchainLens, gold surpassed $5,000 again and on-chain whales continued accumulating tokenized gold assets. According to @OnchainLens, wallet 0xf56 spent $8.09M USDC to buy 1,636.775314 XAUT at $4,943. According to @OnchainLens, wallet 0xa92 spent $6M in WBTC and stETH to acquire 564.27 PAXG and 631.56 XAUT at $5,020. According to @OnchainLens, wallet 0x09e spent $4.85M USDT to purchase 977 XAUT. According to @OnchainLens, these flows indicate ongoing whale buying of XAUT and PAXG on-chain.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, who characterizes current flows as panic selling by ETH whales, Arkham Intelligence data shows address nemorino.eth liquidated 7,107.08 WETH at an average around 2,514.85, below a cost basis near 3,045.24, realizing about 3.769 million dollars in losses (source: Arkham Intelligence via @ai_9684xtpa). According to @ai_9684xtpa, Arkham Intelligence also tracks another whale that previously profited on WBTC depositing a cumulative 3,500 ETH to several exchanges, valued near 8.42 million dollars at an average transfer price around 2,406 (source: Arkham Intelligence via @ai_9684xtpa).

According to @ai_9684xtpa, a whale who previously rotated a four-year ETH position into WBTC sold 109.61 WBTC at an average 82,494.79 dollars and bought 3,437.09 WETH at 2,637.62 dollars within about 20 minutes, totaling roughly 9.06 million dollars, source: @ai_9684xtpa. The author reports earlier rotations as 14,145.93 WETH to 492.16 WBTC at an ETH BTC ratio of 0.03479 on 01.03, 578.66 WBTC back to 17,706.74 WETH at 0.03268 on 01.26, and 17,706.74462 WETH to 587.92 WBTC at 0.0332 on 01.27, yielding an additional 6.45 percent in ETH holdings and a further gain of 9.26 WBTC, source: @ai_9684xtpa. The referenced wallet can be tracked via Arkham Intelligence at address 0x4553e3Bc6327006A63C5aA4cdAC887f66b6A433E, source: @ai_9684xtpa.

According to Julian Kwan, only a small fraction of Bitcoin is earning yield, with about 7 billion deployed across on-chain BTC DeFi and roughly 3.8 billion in the Aave WBTC pool compared with a Bitcoin market of over 2 trillion, indicating the bottleneck is structural rather than demand (source: Julian Kwan on X). According to Kwan, IXS brings RWA backed yield to Bitcoin and Aave’s WBTC pool represents a major existing route for BTC yield, underscoring a large, underutilized base that could shift as structural access improves (source: Julian Kwan on X).

According to @ai_9684xtpa, the wallet 0x3c9…8f757 accumulated 4,000 ETH in the past 24 hours and withdrew from Kraken at an average entry of $2,994.26 for a total around $11.977M, with the last withdrawal about two hours ago and a current unrealized loss near $141K, based on Arkham address data cited by @ai_9684xtpa (source: @ai_9684xtpa; Arkham address explorer). According to @ai_9684xtpa, the same wallet previously realized approximately $14.26M profit trading WBTC, referencing Arkham on-chain records (source: @ai_9684xtpa; Arkham address explorer).

According to @ai_9684xtpa, an on-chain whale who rotated a four-year ETH position into WBTC executed three ETH/BTC ratio trades: on 01.03, 14145.93 WETH was swapped to 492.16 WBTC at an ETH/BTC rate of 0.03479; on 01.26, 578.66 WBTC was swapped back to 17706.74 WETH at 0.03268; on 01.27, 17706.74462 WETH was swapped to 587.92 WBTC at 0.0332. According to @ai_9684xtpa, the latest round netted 9.26 WBTC in profit (about 810,000 dollars), while the prior round increased the ETH stack by 6.45%, tied to wallet 0x4553e3Bc6327006A63C5aA4cdAC887f66b6A433E.