BTC $64,699.37 +0.45%
ETH $1,917.55 +0.78%
BNB $586.72 +3.07%
XRP $1.08 +1.01%
SOL $74.41 +1.22%
TRX $0.3278 +0.49%
DOGE $0.0703 -0.26%
ADA $0.1681 +2.48%
BCH $219.07 +4.05%
LINK $8.48 +1.82%
HYPE $53.63 -2.81%
AAVE $99.46 +0.78%
SUI $0.6959 +1.26%
XLM $0.1727 -0.39%
ZEC $474.12 +1.82%
BTC $64,699.37 +0.45%
ETH $1,917.55 +0.78%
BNB $586.72 +3.07%
XRP $1.08 +1.01%
SOL $74.41 +1.22%
TRX $0.3278 +0.49%
DOGE $0.0703 -0.26%
ADA $0.1681 +2.48%
BCH $219.07 +4.05%
LINK $8.48 +1.82%
HYPE $53.63 -2.81%
AAVE $99.46 +0.78%
SUI $0.6959 +1.26%
XLM $0.1727 -0.39%
ZEC $474.12 +1.82%

Data: "ZEC's largest short seller" reduces its ZEC short position, releasing funds to short BTC and ETH with a scale of 17 million

2026-05-12 18:18:15
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According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, ZEC has fallen from its peak to around $550. The "largest short seller of ZEC" continued to stop-loss and reduce their ZEC short position in the afternoon, with a cumulative closing scale exceeding $5 million. This address previously had a ZEC short position of $12.6 million, and after the reduction, the remaining position is about $8.02 million, with a current floating loss of about $1.17 million.

This short position was opened on March 10 at an average price of about $210, coinciding with a recent local low. At one point, the floating loss reached as high as $2.4 million, enduring several months of holding and averaging down until ZEC experienced a phase correction.

The margin released from reducing ZEC was quickly redirected by this address to short BTC and ETH: a BTC short position was opened shorting 160 coins with 20x leverage, briefly pushing the scale up to $13 million, with an average price of $80,441; an ETH short position was opened shorting 1,866 coins with 15x leverage, with a scale of $4.27 million, at an average price of $2,286. As of the time of writing, both short positions are still being increased.

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