{"id":89437,"date":"2025-09-30T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=89437"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:25:14","slug":"early-hype-investor-secures-148-million-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/early-hype-investor-secures-148-million-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Early HYPE Investor Secures $148 Million Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major holder of the HYPE token from <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-decentralised-exchange-dex\">DEX<\/a> Hyperliquid has realized a profit of $148.63 million from asset sales, as noted by analysts at Lookonchain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An early whale holding 5.07M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24HYPE&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$HYPE<\/a> recently sold 4.99M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24HYPE&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$HYPE<\/a> ($228.76M) at an average price of $45.82, realizing a profit of $148.63M.<\/p>\n<p>He bought the 5.07M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24HYPE&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$HYPE<\/a> 9 months ago at an average of $16.23. <\/p>\n<p>Now he only has 77,089 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24HYPE&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$HYPE<\/a>($3.37M) left. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4VK4HlrtMs\">pic.twitter.com\/4VK4HlrtMs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1972961270539452517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The unidentified investor sold 4.99 million HYPE for $228.76 million, with an average selling price of $45.82.<\/p>\n<p>The investor acquired 5.07 million HYPE in January 2025 at $16.23 each. Following the transaction, the investor&#8217;s wallet retains 77,089 tokens valued at $3.37 million.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the coin is trading at $44.6, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/hyperliquid\">CoinGecko<\/a>. The asset&#8217;s price has dropped by 5.2% over the past day and 6.3% over the past week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-5034dc02ae17b8d3-5638345005963992-1024x587.png\" alt=\"HYPEUSDT_2025-09-30_17-49-22\" class=\"wp-image-266681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-5034dc02ae17b8d3-5638345005963992-1024x587.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-5034dc02ae17b8d3-5638345005963992-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-5034dc02ae17b8d3-5638345005963992-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-5034dc02ae17b8d3-5638345005963992.png 1438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">15-minute chart of HYPE\/USDT on Binance.US. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/chart\/?symbol=BINANCEUS%3AHYPEUSDT\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The market capitalization of the asset stands at $12 billion, with a daily trading volume of $558.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cathie-wood-compares-hyperliquid-to-early-solana\">compared<\/a> Hyperliquid to an &#8220;early Solana.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major holder of the HYPE token from DEX Hyperliquid has realized a profit of $148.63 million from asset sales, as noted by analysts at Lookonchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"A major holder of the HYPE token from DEX Hyperliquid has realized a profit of $148.63 million.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1823,52],"class_list":["post-89437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-hyperliquid","tag-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"119","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"A major holder of the HYPE token from DEX Hyperliquid has realized a profit of $148.63 million.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89439,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89437\/revisions\/89439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}