{"id":29455,"date":"2025-05-30T13:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29455"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:01:53","slug":"james-wynn-goes-long-on-pepe-hours-after-losing-100m-on-leveraged-bitcoin-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29455","title":{"rendered":"James Wynn Goes Long on PEPE Hours After Losing $100M on Leveraged Bitcoin Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cJames Wynn,\u201d the closely-watched trader, has now placed a $12 million worth of long bet on PEPE just hours after losing over $100 million in bitcoin BTC long positions.<\/p>\n<p>Wynn, known for placing billion-dollar bets on the onchain trading platform Hyperliquid, opened a new 10x leveraged long worth more than $12 million on the memecoin PEPE, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IUTpCuzWI9\">Hyperdash data<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p>Wynn now holds 934 million PEPE tokens valued at approximately $12.1 million. His entry price of $0.0129 has already netted him an unrealized gain of 10.66%\u2014a small but notable pivot after last week\u2019s disastrous Bitcoin trade.<\/p>\n<p>Wynn\u2019s bitcoin losses are the stuff of crypto legend. Earlier in the week, he had built a record-setting $1.25 billion notional long position at an average price of $108,243, only to see it collapse as bitcoin\u2019s dipped below $105,000 after U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff announcement on EU exports.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple liquidations \u2014 including a 527 BTC position worth over $55 million and a 421 BTC position worth nearly $44 million \u2014 wiped out more than $100 million of Wynn\u2019s holdings over the past days.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the latest move into PEPE has got traders wondering if Wynn is a real person with a gambling addiction \u2014 or an account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=james%20wynn%20hyperliquid%20marketing&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=top\">funded to drum up attention<\/a> to Hyperliquid.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the money is real and the week-long saga has proven Hyperliquid\u2019s capability to handle billions of dollars in a single trader wholly using smart contracts and its native blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>The hype has turned out real for Hyperliquid\u2019s own HYPE, with the token up 20% in the past two weeks amid the recent attention to the platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJames Wynn,\u201d the closely-watched trader, has now placed a $12 million worth of long bet on PEPE just hours after losing over $100 million in bitcoin BTC long positions. Wynn, known for placing billion-dollar bets on the onchain trading platform Hyperliquid, opened a new 10x leveraged long worth more than $12 million on the memecoin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}