WhaleStats, which examines Ethereum whales and shares the transactions on its Twitter account, reported that a number of huge wallets made million token purchases during the day. The collected altcoin projects consist of Ethereum, Chainlink, Polygon and Shiba Inu. Also, an anonymous wallet transferred half a million LINK to Binance exchange. Let’s take a look at the whale activities of January 5th and 4th.
Ethereum whales collect $21.7M LINK
According to WhaleStats, “2. ”, “99. ” and “35. ” ranked ETH whales purchased 838,229 million LINK tokens worth $21,718,997, making eight major transfers. Six transfers were made by the whale, which ranked 35th. Whale thus brought his LINK savings to $46,096,096 and occupies 11.47% of the wallet. The second largest Ethereum whale is also holding $52,870,300 LINK and 1% of its wallet. It makes up 33 of them.
500. 000 LINK moved to Binance exchange
According to Whale Alert data, another major LINK transaction was made by an unknown crypto owner on the Binance exchange in the past hours. The “Anonymous” crypto whale transferred 550,954 LINK worth $14.452,227.
Altcoin whales continue to buy MATIC tokens
WhaleStats also gave information about two whales who bought MATIC tokens.
- One of them ranks third among the top 1000 ETH whales; 4. Bought 2,000,000 MATICs worth $840,000.
- The second whale is ranked 296 on the WhaleStats scale. He bought 2,005,641 MATICs worth $4,813,538.
Altcoin whales buy $300M worth of SHIB
Cryptocoin. com, after losing about $150 million in market value among major addresses on the Shiba Inu Ethereum network, FTX Token (FTT) took the first place. On January 4, Shiba Inu’s assets at whale-level addresses were valued at approximately $1.4 billion. As of January 5, its total value in whale wallets is $1.7 billion. Despite the fact that $300 million has been added to Shiba’s value in whale wallets, it is not yet reflected in the price of the token and SHIB is 1% in the last 24 hours. It is trading at $0.00003251, down 84 percent.