The price of XPL token experienced significant volatility on April 3, according to BlockBeats. Monitoring data from Coinglass and Hyperinsight revealed that between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. (UTC+8), the token's price surged by 42%, reaching a peak of $0.167. However, starting at 5:10 a.m., the price plummeted by over 40% in less than five minutes, falling below $0.12 and erasing all gains made earlier in the day.
Before the price surge, five new addresses on Hyperliquid deposited funds around 1 a.m., each transaction exceeding $200,000, totaling approximately $1.292 million. These addresses opened high-leverage long positions on XPL, possibly in coordination with spot purchases on other platforms to drive up the price. During this period, the five addresses saw substantial floating profits, with their initial investments more than doubling.
Between 4:30 and 4:40 a.m., these addresses withdrew their released margins along with the floating profits, significantly raising the liquidation price of their positions. At 5:10 a.m., the five addresses were liquidated simultaneously at an XPL price of approximately $0.12971, causing the price to drop sharply, possibly in coordination with spot market sell-offs. The combined profit for these addresses was around $1.602 million.
During the price surge, several large short positions were liquidated, including those held by addresses (0xbe1), (0x51f), "美布两油主力空军" (0x985), and (0x45d), with the total size of liquidated short positions exceeding $32.99 million.
The source of funds was traced to the on-chain address: 0xBc1D9760bd6ca468CA9fB5Ff2CFbEAC35d86c973. The suspected whale addresses involved in the operation are:
1. 0x0e321565595044b32784fc983d38bfe57ddee62c
2. 0x763a5940ccb568e594a9ceb4b1d88d60dec8ea08
3. 0x1b546e2a2f10d30245502d6bdb11bba23719597f
4. 0x1a1cc7a769b233f29e09050fe383a37c46bcdbdf
5. 0xfb8fe47311c92345b8fc152f697212595a778915
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