BlockBeats News, February 18 — According to Coinbob’s popular address monitoring, “neoyokio.eth” whale (0x152) established a long position in ASTER with 2x leverage on January 28. Last night and this morning, it added to its position again. Currently, its 4x leverage ASTER long position has expanded to $14.9 million, with an average price of $0.6188, and an unrealized profit of approximately $1.86 million (50%), making it the largest long position on ASTER on the chain.
The sub-address associated with this address (0xfb5…) previously held about $2 million worth of ASTER long positions but has now closed out and exited. Currently, this sub-address does not hold any related positions.
This whale initially went long on XPL at an average price of $0.69 with 1x leverage on September 24, just before XPL surged significantly. The position was worth $20 million, making it the largest on-chain long position during XPL’s main upward wave, with a peak unrealized profit of over $16 million. It was once suspected of having insider information related to XPL. Additionally, this address is active on Polymarket prediction markets and still holds a position in one of the markets.
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