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James Fickel has once again borrowed 350 WBTC from Aave to sell and exchange for 43,784 ETH

James Fickel has once again borrowed 350 WBTC from Aave to sell and exchange for 43,784 ETH

Bitget2024/05/21 00:39

According to on-chain analyst EmberCN, with the U.S. SEC urging exchanges to expedite updates on the 19B-4 document for ETH spot ETFs, the likelihood of approval for ETH spot ETFs has greatly increased. The price of ETH rose by 18% in five hours. During this period, several on-chain whales bought into ETH (most using leverage): 

1. James Fickel, founder of Amaranth Foundation, continued to borrow 350 WBTC (25 million USD) from Aave and sold it for 43,784 ETH.

James Fickel has been long on the ETH/BTC exchange rate since early January this year and has borrowed a total of 2,741 WBTC (191 million USD) from Aave and sold it for 50,688 ETH. His cost in terms of the ETH/BTC exchange rate is at 0.054; 

2. Three hours ago, a whale who had previously profited $20.8 million from investments in both Ethereum and Chainlink borrowed ten million USDC from Aave and then purchased 2836.5 stETH at a price of $3,525 each.

This same whale also spent twenty million USDC one week ago (May14th) to purchase313 .24 WBTC at an average price per coin of $63 ,848.

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