A certain whale's short positions in BTC and ETH opened on HyperLiquid have an unrealized profit of nearly $2 million.

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PANews January 20 News, according to Onchain Lens, a whale account previously injected with $3 million on HyperLiquid now holds a 40x leveraged Bitcoin short position (1,073.5 BTC, with a notional value of approximately $99.6 million) and a 25x leveraged Ethereum short position (31,093 ETH, with a notional value of approximately $99.38 million). The current floating profit totals $1.96 million. In addition, the account has closed its XMR short position, realizing a profit of $221,000.

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