BlockBeats News, February 2 — According to Coinbob’s popular address monitoring, the former largest BTC and ETH short “Air Force Commander” (0xd83) on Hyperliquid has fully liquidated and exited. The address experienced multiple rounds of forced liquidation over the past week, and later attempted to go long with high leverage, but ultimately incurred a total loss of over $20 million. Its last position was a BTC long, with a profit of about $17,000, after which it withdrew all remaining $58,700 from the account last weekend.
This whale’s total holdings previously approached $500 million, making it the largest short position across multiple cryptocurrencies. Recently, it faced continuous liquidations, including approximately $199 million on January 22, about $120 million on January 26, and about $83 million on January 28. After switching to a long position, it was liquidated again on January 29 for about $61 million, and on January 30, it was liquidated for $27.5 million.
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