According to @OnchainLens, prominent trader Machi (@machibigbrother) is transitioning his Ethereum (ETH) trading strategy from long to short. He has partially closed his long ETH position and placed a limit order to short ETH, signaling a bearish outlook on the cryptocurrency.

According to @EmberCN, as SOL fell to $90, a whale who has been shorting Solana since November now shows about $30.35 million in unrealized profit on SOL positions. According to @EmberCN, the trader holds roughly $53 million in SOL shorts with an average entry near $143, plus smaller BTC and ETH short positions, bringing total unrealized profit to over $35 million.

According to @OnchainDataNerd, Abraxas Capital began closing its $HYPE short position about an hour ago. According to @OnchainDataNerd, the address shows roughly $9.07M in unrealized profit across all short positions while funding fee gains total about $39.73M. According to @OnchainDataNerd, this highlights a funding-fee harvesting strategy, and the wallet address link was provided by the source.

According to @KobeissiLetter, short interest as a percentage of shares outstanding in the S&P 500 ETF SPY is about 9%, near an eight-year low, while the Nasdaq 100 ETF QQQ is about 6%, the lowest since at least 2018. According to @KobeissiLetter, this signals short seller capitulation and highlights historically depressed short interest levels in large-cap index ETFs.

According to Onchain Lens, a whale deposited 1.127 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a 10x leveraged short position on BNB; source: Onchain Lens on X and CoinMarketMan HyperTracker. Onchain Lens also reports the same wallet previously realized 4.57 million dollars in gains across XPL, HYPE, and other trades; source: Onchain Lens and CoinMarketMan HyperTracker. This activity indicates a high-leverage bearish exposure to BNB on a derivatives venue; source: Onchain Lens.

According to @lookonchain, trader pension-usdt.eth made 6.33M USD shorting ETH over the past two days, pushing total realized profits above 27.7M USD. According to @lookonchain, the trader has now reversed to a 3x long on 30000 ETH with a notional 72.89M USD position.

According to @OnchainLens, the whale wallet pension-usdt.eth has reopened a 3x short on ETH totaling 30,000 ETH, valued at roughly 81.8 million USD, with an entry at 2,746 USD and a liquidation price at 3,713.44 USD. According to @OnchainLens, this comes after the same wallet closed a prior 3x ETH short for a profit of 2.7 million USD. According to @OnchainLens, the disclosed entry and liquidation levels provide clear trading reference points for ETH short exposure by a large wallet.

According to Lookonchain, the address 0x20c2 known as ETHMegaBear has realized over $80.9M in profits by shorting ETH on Hyperliquid, highlighting sustained bearish positioning and aggressive risk exposure (source: Lookonchain). According to Lookonchain, the trader has been shorting ETH since 2024 using maximum leverage on the venue, previously 50x and now 25x (source: Lookonchain). According to Lookonchain, the account currently holds a 30,582 ETH short position with an estimated notional of about $88.9M on Hyperliquid, with position details referenced via the Hyperdash profile (source: Lookonchain; source: Hyperdash). According to Hyperdash, the trader page lists the active 30,582 ETH short and associated historical PnL for the address (source: Hyperdash).

According to @ai_9684xtpa, Hyperliquid’s top BTC short address added 14.5 BTC to its short roughly minutes prior, lifting total exposure to 246 million USD with 5.12 million USD unrealized profit; BTC and ETH shorts accounted for 47.8% and 42% with entry prices at 90,671 USD and 3,026.83 USD, per hyperbot.network trader data. According to @ai_9684xtpa, a subsequent update shows the address rolling positions with 106.5% margin utilization after adding 11.87 million USD to BTC and ETH shorts, bringing total short exposure to 276 million USD across BTC, ETH, HYPE, PEPE, and XMR; BTC and ETH now comprise 54% and 36% of exposure with liquidation levels at 92,315.4 USD and 3,107.88 USD and 5.62 million USD unrealized profit, per hyperbot.network.

According to @EmberCN, a 1 a.m. upside wick that briefly pushed BTC above $91,000 and ETH above $3,000 tagged the liquidation level of short seller 0xD83...Fd7, triggering roughly $60 million in liquidations source: @EmberCN. His aggregate short exposure fell from about $300 million to $238 million, and his unrealized profit is down from its prior peak source: @EmberCN. The post highlights that max-leverage rolling strategies are highly vulnerable to small counter-trend wicks that can force liquidations source: @EmberCN.

According to @OnchainLens, the "255 BTC Sold" whale closed long positions in BTC, ETH, and SOL with a realized loss of USD 2.86M (Source: @OnchainLens). The trader continues to hold a 5x short in DASH with an unrealized profit of about USD 650K, while total profit fell from USD 25.5M to USD 2.97M (Source: @OnchainLens; HyperBot trader dashboard).

According to @ai_9684xtpa, the top BTC short address on Hyperliquid added $11.87M to BTC and ETH short positions, is rolling positions, and shows margin utilization of 106.5% (source: @ai_9684xtpa; data: hyperbot.network/trader/0xd83516572789f1c782c8298efce58a5600318fd7). Total short exposure stands at $276M across BTC, ETH, HYPE, PEPE, and XMR, with BTC 54% at a liquidation price of $92,315.4 and ETH 36% at a liquidation price of $3,107.88, and unrealized profit of $5.62M (source: @ai_9684xtpa; data: hyperbot.network/trader/0xd83516572789f1c782c8298efce58a5600318fd7).

According to @ai_9684xtpa, on-chain address 0x94d…33814 added to its DASH short while maintaining three long positions in ETH, BTC, and SOL, with total unrealized profit at 5.52 million USD. According to @ai_9684xtpa citing HyperBot, the ETH long holds 67,425.59 ETH with 2.34 million USD unrealized profit, the BTC long holds 968.1 BTC with 1.022 million USD unrealized profit, and the SOL long holds 527,399.75 SOL with 1.289 million USD unrealized profit. According to @ai_9684xtpa, the DASH short is the only short among the four positions, sized at 107,986.36 DASH valued around 7.25 million USD with 0.87 million USD unrealized profit.

According to @EmberCN, on-chain trader 0xD83...Fd7 used a rolling short strategy to compound gains from $3 million to $18.5 million over six days and continued adding to shorts, now holding about $304 million in short exposure. @EmberCN characterized the approach as extremely high risk with no room for error but highly profitable when the direction is correct. Source: @EmberCN.

According to @EmberCN, address 0xD83...Fd7 increased short exposure to HYPE in the past half hour. According to @EmberCN, the trader started by shorting ETH last Friday and used rolling unrealized profits to expand shorts into other assets. According to @EmberCN, the account now holds short positions in BTC, ETH, HYPE, and XMR with total notional around USD 261 million. According to @EmberCN, the trader scaled initial capital from roughly USD 3 million to about USD 11 million through this rolling strategy.

According to @QCompounding, Jesse Livermore turned $10,000 into $500,000 by betting big on Northern Pacific Railway in 1901, source: @QCompounding. According to @QCompounding, he then shorted the market ahead of the 1907 panic and made $1,000,000 in a single day, source: @QCompounding. According to @QCompounding, JP Morgan asked him to stop shorting to calm market turmoil, source: @QCompounding. For traders, this case highlights how concentrated conviction trades in structurally stressed names and timely crisis shorts can produce asymmetric returns, a framework that also applies to high-volatility assets like crypto during liquidity panics, source: @QCompounding.

According to @CNBC, Michael Burry stated he is not shorting Tesla (TSLA) at present in a post published December 31, 2025. Source: CNBC social post, December 31, 2025. Public filings show Scion Asset Management previously reported Tesla put options in Q1 2021, whereas the new comment indicates no active short now; the CNBC item does not mention Bitcoin or other crypto assets. Sources: SEC Form 13F for Scion Asset Management, Q1 2021; CNBC social post, December 31, 2025. Tesla disclosed selling about 75% of its Bitcoin holdings in Q2 2022, and the CNBC update does not address Tesla’s crypto balances. Sources: Tesla Q2 2022 Update and 10-Q, July 2022; CNBC social post, December 31, 2025.

According to @phantom, markets move in both directions and short selling allows traders to speculate on price declines, enabling profit and hedging strategies during downtrends; source: @phantom on X, Nov 20, 2025.

According to @AltcoinDaily, short positions have been profitable recently, indicating the author views current crypto momentum as bearish. Source: Altcoin Daily on X, Nov 13, 2025. The post does not specify assets, timeframes, or performance metrics, framing this as a broad market sentiment signal rather than a coin-specific trade setup. Source: Altcoin Daily on X, Nov 13, 2025. Traders can treat this as a bearish sentiment datapoint when evaluating market bias and risk management during the current environment. Source: Altcoin Daily on X, Nov 13, 2025.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, Binance Smart Money’s seven-day PnL Top1 account “Mysterious K-Line” earned a net $2.116M over the last week, with most positions being shorts; source: @ai_9684xtpa on X (Nov 12, 2025); Binance Smart Money profile: binance.com/zh-CN/smart-money/profile/4736946588198249472. $COAI contributed $3.125M profit with 10 wins from 11 trades (91% win rate); source: @ai_9684xtpa on X (Nov 12, 2025). $AIA added $0.877M profit across 2 trades with a 100% win rate; source: @ai_9684xtpa on X (Nov 12, 2025). The account also traded $ZEC five times with an 80% hit rate but still finished net negative on $ZEC due to a $1.42M loss on a short; source: @ai_9684xtpa on X (Nov 12, 2025). These figures show the top Binance Smart Money account’s PnL was primarily driven by short-side setups during the period and that $ZEC carried significant single-trade downside risk; source: @ai_9684xtpa on X (Nov 12, 2025).