According to Onchain Lens, the whale who deposited $3M USDC to short on HyperLiquid has opened a new BTC 40x short and continues to hold an ETH 25x short, with the ETH short showing a floating profit of $1.96M, source: Onchain Lens. Reported current notional sizes are 1,073.5 BTC worth $99.6M and 31,093.37 ETH worth $99.38M, source: Onchain Lens. The whale has closed its XMR short with a realized profit of $221,153, source: Onchain Lens. Earlier activity showed the wallet running ETH 25x and XMR 5x shorts totaling $61.9M notional, including 18,260.74 ETH worth $60.63M and 1,838.06 XMR worth $1.27M, source: Onchain Lens and CoinMarketMan HyperTracker. Based on the reported figures, aggregate notional short exposure across BTC and ETH is roughly $199M, source: Onchain Lens.

According to Lookonchain, a trader deposited 3M USDC into Hyperliquid before opening large short positions, source: Lookonchain on X Jan 16, 2026 https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2011990361208709367. The account used maximum leverage to short 18,261 ETH valued at 60.32M dollars and 1,845 XMR valued at 1.27M dollars, source: Lookonchain on X Jan 16, 2026 https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2011990361208709367. The ETH short has a liquidation price at 3,380 dollars, marking a key risk level for this position, source: Lookonchain on X Jan 16, 2026 https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2011990361208709367; position details: Hyperliquid dashboard https://legacy.hyperdash.com/trader/0xD83516572789F1c782C8298eFce58a5600318Fd7.