{"id":35445,"date":"2025-07-07T06:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35445"},"modified":"2025-07-07T06:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:02:03","slug":"hyperliquid-trader-qwatio-loses-3-7m-this-week-on-extreme-bitcoin-ether-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35445","title":{"rendered":"Hyperliquid Trader Qwatio Loses $3.7M This Week on Extreme Bitcoin, Ether Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One ultra-leveraged Hyperliquid trader has been liquidated five times over the weekend and has lost nearly $3.7 million in the past week with aggressive bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) shorts, according to on-chain data.<\/p>\n<p>Qwatio, a heavily leveraged Hyperliquid trader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/26\/james-wynn-the-trader-who-bet-1b-on-bitcoin-is-now-long-pepe\">in the style of James Wynn<\/a>, has been opening short positions on BTC and ETH when the tokens are at sessional lows.<\/p>\n<p>This move is a flip from his strategy earlier this year when he traded BTC and ETH via aggressive longs.<\/p>\n<p>Qwatio first got on the radar of Crypto Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1938179210549596174\">when they opened<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pk79z\/status\/1895965018111557638\">50x leveraged BTC and ETH bets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheMoonCarl\/status\/1896251141786419612\">worth $200 million<\/a> in the hours before U.S. President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/03\/02\/trump-to-establish-u-s-crypto-reserve\">signed an executive order to create a crypto reserve<\/a> \u2013 which was a broad bullish catalyst for the market.<\/p>\n<p>They also were a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1902310698589241685\">major holder of the Melania memecoin<\/a> during its initial launch earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Overall in the last 24 hours there has been $50 million of ETH and $31 million in BTC short and liquidated across the market, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinglass.com\/LiquidationData\">according to CoinGlass data.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/26\/james-wynn-the-trader-who-bet-1b-on-bitcoin-is-now-long-pepe\">James Wynn, the Trader Who Bet $1B on Bitcoin, Is Now Long Pepe<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One ultra-leveraged Hyperliquid trader has been liquidated five times over the weekend and has lost nearly $3.7 million in the past week with aggressive bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) shorts, according to on-chain data. Qwatio, a heavily leveraged Hyperliquid trader in the style of James Wynn, has been opening short positions on BTC and ETH [&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-35445","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\/35445","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=35445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}