{"id":605443,"date":"2026-05-27T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=817571"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:26:19","slug":"whale-shorts-16m-in-bitcoin-and-ether-while-going-long-on-tradfi-on-hyperliquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/whale-shorts-16m-in-bitcoin-and-ether-while-going-long-on-tradfi-on-hyperliquid\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Shorts $16M in Bitcoin and Ether While Going Long on TradFi on Hyperliquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ffffwwwl-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Onchain data has flagged a smart money whale running heavily leveraged short positions on bitcoin and ether simultaneously with long positions on traditional financial (TradFi) market indexes through Hyperliquid. Long TradFi, Short Crypto: The Trade in Detail The wallet holds a $5.09 million long position on the XYZ100 index perpetual at 4x leverage, currently sitting [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onchain data has flagged a smart money whale running heavily leveraged short positions on bitcoin and ether simultaneously with long positions on traditional financial (TradFi) market indexes through Hyperliquid. Long TradFi, Short Crypto: The Trade in Detail The wallet holds a $5.09 million long position on the XYZ100 index perpetual at 4x leverage, currently sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":605444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-605443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}