A crypto whale not too long ago misplaced greater than $4.5 million making an attempt to lengthy Ethereum (ETH) twice, in accordance with the digital asset tracker Lookonchain.

Lookonchain notes the whale misplaced $500,000 on their first try and lengthy the highest good contract platform, then misplaced much more on their second attempt.

“This whale offered all 10,701 ETH ($33 million) on Binance to repay debt two hours in the past, shedding greater than $4 million once more!

He went lengthy ETH by depositing ETH on Compound and borrowing USDT to purchase extra ETH.”

Compound (COMP) is a decentralized lending platform.

Lookonchain notes that different whales are accumulating Ethereum. One withdrew 10,000 ETH price $31.5 million from Binance on Monday and staked it into the decentralized finance (DeFi) challenge Pendle (PENDLE) and Renzo, a liquid restaking token for EigenLayer. EigenLayer is a restaking protocol constructed on ETH.

The opposite whale withdrew 5,282 ETH price $48.2 million from the crypto exchanges Binance and OKX on Monday.

ETH is buying and selling at $3,093 at time of writing. The second-ranked crypto asset by market cap is down practically 12% up to now week and greater than 14% up to now month.

Ethereum can be greater than 36% down from its all-time excessive of $4,878, which it set again in November 2021, in accordance with CoinGecko. 

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