BTC OG Insider Whale Holds $45M Unrealized Profit as New Leveraged Long Positions Emerge

Several large crypto whale accounts adjusted or expanded positions on Jan. 16, Coinbob monitoring data show. The "BTC OG Insider Whale" holds an overall unrealized profit of $45 million, with mainly ETH long positions worth approximately $670 million at an average entry of $3,147 showing $34.5 million in paper gains, alongside BTC and SOL longs bringing total exposure to roughly $843 million and placing the account at the top of Hyperliquid's ETH and SOL long rankings. The "CZ Counterparty" whale records about $7.1 million unrealized profit on ETH longs sized around $190 million at a $3,190 average, while its XRP longs of roughly $80.6 million sit on an $8.3 million paper loss, giving the account about $276 million in total positions and making it the largest XRP long and second-largest ETH long on Hyperliquid. The "pension-usdt.eth" address has been building 3x leveraged BTC longs over the past 2 hours, accumulating roughly 802 BTC worth about $76.7 million at an average of $95,600 and continuing to add, while "Strategy Counterparty" opened new 20x BTC longs in the last 3 hours totaling about 20.9 BTC or $2 million at $95,700 as its combined BTC, ETH and SOL longs reach $257 million with an overall unrealized loss near $4.2 million.