Ancient Ethereum whale 'Erik' has recently amassed 86,268 ETH valued at $187 million, marking a revived interest in the market after being dormant since the ShapeShift era.

Gate News: On March 19, Erik, an early Ethereum investor and whale from the ShapeShift era, has returned to the market, accumulating purchases of 86,268 ETH with a total value of approximately $187 million. This marks a significant strategic move by this ancient whale.

Gate News bot message: Gate's market data shows that ETH has fallen below 2100 USDT, currently trading at 2099.73 USDT.

Gate News bot message, in the past 8 hours, a whale has opened a 20x $ETH long position with 9,786 $ETH, valued at $20.67M. The whale also holds 20x $SOL and 5x $DYDX long positions, and is currently sitting on a floating loss of over $6.858M.

Over the past 24 hours, the total liquidation volume in the cryptocurrency market reached $438 million, with long liquidations accounting for 78%. BTC and ETH liquidations reached $149 million and $118 million respectively, affecting a total of 126,272 traders, with the largest single liquidation being $10.8192 million.

Gate News reports that on March 19, according to Lookonchain monitoring, as of press time, today’s Bitcoin ETF experienced a net outflow of 1,982 BTC (valued at $137.76 million), Ethereum ETF experienced a net outflow of 8,994 ETH (valued at $19.09 million), and Solana ETF experienced a net inflow of 1,495 SOL (valued at $132,000).

Maji Big Brother reduced holdings of 1000 ETH, with total long position value of $9.5067 million, leverage of 36.05x, facing unrealized losses of $514,000. Over the past week, profit and loss situation has shifted from floating gains to losses, with investment return rate of -135.1%.

Gate News reports that on March 19, Lookonchain monitoring shows that address 0x049b opened a 20x leveraged short position approximately 2 hours ago, involving 428.73 BTC (approximately $29.62 million) and 13,852 ETH (approximately $29.13 million), with a combined notional value of approximately $58.75 million. The position is currently showing unrealized gains exceeding $1.15 million. The liquidation prices for the above positions are: BTC $72,409.98 and ETH $2,226.62, respectively.

Gate News report: On March 19, according to HyperInsight monitoring, as Ethereum continues to decline, "Machi X" reduced its ETH long positions. Currently holding 5500 ETH long positions with floating losses of $570,000. The liquidation price is $2105.19.

From 2026-03-19 12:45 to 2026-03-19 13:00 (UTC), ETH price experienced a significant -1.02% decline within the 2130.05-2154.23 USDT range, with fluctuation amplitude reaching 1.12%. Short-term volatility intensified, market attention noticeably increased, and some investors showed signs of panic sentiment. The primary driver of this price movement was a large-scale influx of on-chain whale funds into exchanges over a short period. Glassnode data shows that although the overall ETH net outflow trend continues, exchange holdings over the past 30 days have decreased by 503,4