{"id":29613,"date":"2025-05-31T18:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29613"},"modified":"2025-05-31T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:31:44","slug":"cryptos-most-watched-whale-gets-fully-liquidated-after-placing-billions-in-risky-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29613","title":{"rendered":"Crypto&#8217;s Most Watched Whale Gets Fully Liquidated After Placing Billions in Risky Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>James Wynn, the trader whose risky moves on Hyperliquid captivated crypto watchers this month, has been fully liquidated.<\/p>\n<p>He ended a volatile month with just $23 left in his account, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperdash.info\/trader\/0x5078C2fBeA2b2aD61bc840Bc023E35Fce56BeDb6\">HyperDash data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wynn built his reputation and following by placing massive, leveraged on-chain trades across bitcoin BTC, PEPE PEPE, and other tokens.<\/p>\n<p>His downfall began with a $1.25 billion long position on BTC that unraveled as prices dropped below $105,000 amid growing geopolitical uncertainty. That trade alone cost him more than $37 million after fees.<\/p>\n<p>The trader briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/30\/james-wynn-goes-long-on-pepe-hours-after-losing-100m-on-leveraged-bitcoin-bet\">pivoted to memecoins like PEPE<\/a>, where one long position initially gained over 10%, before market swings liquidated him again.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the month, Wynn cycled through assets including ETH, SUI, TRUMP, and even FARTCOIN. His trades at one point saw him achieve an unrealized gain of $85 million.<\/p>\n<p>An account associated with Wynn on X commented on the liquidation and dismissed the losses. \u201cI\u2019ll run it back, I always do. And I\u2019ll enjoy doing it. I like playing the game,\u201d the account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JamesWynnReal\/status\/1928719204473254080\">wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cI took a large and calculated bet at making billions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Wynn, the trader whose risky moves on Hyperliquid captivated crypto watchers this month, has been fully liquidated. He ended a volatile month with just $23 left in his account, according to HyperDash data. Wynn built his reputation and following by placing massive, leveraged on-chain trades across bitcoin BTC, PEPE PEPE, and other tokens. His [&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-29613","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\/29613","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=29613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}