🐋《The Whale Moved》｜2025-08-16
📈 Real-time Market:
BTC:
Latest Price: 118,002 USD
Daily High/Low: 118,271 / 117,268 USD
ETH:
Latest Price: 4,458.94 USD
Daily High/Low: 4,491.24 / 4,381.96 USD
📊 Long/Short Ratio (ETH):
- Binance Long/Short Ratio: 0.8622 (Bearish)
- OKX Long/Short Ratio: 0.73 (Bearish)
Source: Coinglass Long/Short Ratio Data Page (for screenshots/links).
📰 Significant Positive/Negative News:
- A Bitcoin whale that was dormant for 5 years moved 3,000 BTC (approximately 353 million USD), indicating potential profit-taking motivation.
- Three addresses collectively bought approximately 280 million USD worth of ETH, indicating a willingness to enter with active buy orders.
🛂 Regulatory Dynamics:
- Hong Kong is continuing to accelerate the regulatory process for stablecoins, expecting to issue the first batch of stablecoin licenses by early 2026, but the number will be limited.
- No new major cryptocurrency regulatory news from other countries.
📊 Fund Flow:
- No large whale-level ETH transfers detected, but on-chain analysis shows that whales have accumulated 93,000 ETH (approximately 411 million USD) through Kraken over the past two days, with a single-day purchase of 21,800 ETH (approximately 96.7 million USD) today.
🧠 Brief Commentary:
- The market exhibits strong characteristics of segmented speculation: BTC whales are visibly realizing profits, while the ETH market is beginning to accumulate, showing a clear pattern of long and short confrontation.
- The bearish long/short ratio indicates that short-term selling pressure risks still exist, but the continuous buying by whales on Kraken suggests that there may be support for the mid-term.
- Today's market needs to focus on whether the buying pressure continues and whether profit-taking exacerbates short-term volatility.
- "Will the BTC whale outflows trigger a chain reaction of selling pressure or is it just profit-taking?"
- "With three addresses significantly entering the market, do you think it's institutions grabbing shares or retail investors carrying the baton?"
- "With large buying orders entering on Kraken and a bearish long/short ratio, how do you view the upcoming trend? Feel free to express your opinions in the comments!"
