ZEC's brief 6% drop triggered a battle between bulls and bears, with the largest on-chain ZEC long position and the "alt short seller" both significan...
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ZEC price briefly dropped 6.4%, triggering a battle between bulls and bears. A major whale added $1.14 million in long positions, while a short seller increased losses to $1.64 million.
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According to Mars Finance, on January 8th, Coinbob's monitoring of popular addresses showed that the price of ZEC briefly fell by 6.4%, hitting a low of $449 before rebounding to around $465. During this fluctuation, the largest long ZEC whale on Hyperliquid (0x152) briefly turned from profit to loss, then decisively added to its position near $459, adding 2486 ZEC (approximately $1.14 million) within 10 minutes. In the past 20 hours, it has accumulated a total of 9871 long positions (approximately $4.54 million). Currently, this whale holds a 10x leveraged ZEC long position, with a size of approximately $12.35 million and an average price of $463. Meanwhile, according to Coinbob monitoring, the largest ZEC short whale is still at a loss, having not recently adjusted its ZEC short position. Its current position size is approximately $17.48 million, with an average price of $419, resulting in a loss of $1.64 million (47%). Meanwhile, the "fake short seller" has been continuously increasing its ZEC short positions over the past few hours, currently holding ZEC short positions totaling $2.08 million, and is still adding to its positions.