{"id":40095,"date":"2025-08-02T10:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40095"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:16:45","slug":"arthur-hayes-is-selling-here-are-the-altcoins-hes-ditching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40095","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Hayes Is Selling: Here Are the Altcoins He\u2019s Ditching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The cryptocurrency market reached new heights in July as the total cap exceeded $4 trillion for the first time ever, led by bitcoin\u2019s new peak above $123,000 and several altcoins\u2019 rallies to ATHs, such as XRP and BNB.<\/p>\n<p>The past few days, though, have gone in the opposite direction, with many altcoins charting double-digit price declines, while BTC plunged to a three-week low of under $113,000.<\/p>\n<p>During these turbulent times of uncertainty, perhaps prompted by Trump\u2019s latest tariffs and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-orders-nuclear-submarines-moved-after-russian-provocative-statements-2025-08-01\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">movement<\/a> of US nuclear submarines close to strategic Russian locations, prominent industry names, such as Arthur Hayes, have started to sell off. Here\u2019s which altcoins the BitMEX co-founder sold in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<h2>ETH, ENA, PEPE Being Sold<\/h2>\n<p>As the data shared by the analytics resource Lookonchain points out, Hayes has used one of his known addresses to dispose of over $8 million worth of ETH, $4.6 million in ENA, and $414,700 worth of the third-largest meme coin by market cap \u2013 PEPE.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Maelstrom exec clarified that the reason for his sales is mostly related to Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/600m-in-longs-wiped-as-btc-crashes-to-3-week-low-on-trump-tariff-shock\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">tariffs<\/a>, many of which are set to be implemented starting from August 1. He believes BTC and ETH will retrace, as the former would retest the $100,000 resistance, while the latter will head toward $3,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Y? US Tariff bill coming due in 3q \u2026 at least the mrkt believes that after NFP print. No major econ is creating enough credit fast enough to boost nominal gdp. So <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$BTC<\/a> tests $100k, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$ETH<\/a> tests $3k. Come see my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WebX_Asia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">@WebX_Asia<\/a> Tokyo keynote Aug 25 for more info. Back to the beach. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zuHlwgQKC7\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/zuHlwgQKC7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoHayes\/status\/1951510939469292023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hayes is far from the only larger crypto investor turning to a sell-off strategy amid this market uncertainty. Lookonchain\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1951491536711197190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">identified<\/a> an unknown whale that had deposited over $90 million worth of ETH to several exchanges within a<\/span>\u00a0span of just two days.<\/p>\n<h2>Not SharpLink, Though<\/h2>\n<p>While some whales and Hayes are rushing to sell ETH, the second-largest ether holder, SharpLink, has taken the opportunity to increase its impressive stash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SharpLink(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SharpLinkGaming?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">@SharpLinkGaming<\/a>) spent another 108.57M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24USDC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$USDC<\/a> to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$ETH<\/a> in the past 9 hours and received 14,933 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$ETH<\/a>($52.56M) 3 hours ago.<\/p>\n<p>SharpLink now holds a total of 464,209 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$ETH<\/a>($1.63B).<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cW8EvzSFxt\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/cW8EvzSFxt<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7wH1lpRocu\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/7wH1lpRocu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/weDyfVzm1J\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/weDyfVzm1J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1951458749341954471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After accumulating another 14,933 ETH, the company now owns over $1.6 billion worth of Ethereum\u2019s underlying asset (464,209 ETH), according to Lookonchain. Data from CoinGecko and strategicethreserve shows that SharpLink\u2019s Ethereum fortune is second only to Bitmine\u2019s 566,766 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/arthur-hayes-is-selling-here-are-the-altcoins-hes-ditching\/\">Arthur Hayes Is Selling: Here Are the Altcoins He\u2019s Ditching<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency market reached new heights in July as the total cap exceeded $4 trillion for the first time ever, led by bitcoin\u2019s new peak above $123,000 and several altcoins\u2019 rallies to ATHs, such as XRP and BNB. The past few days, though, have gone in the opposite direction, with many altcoins charting double-digit price [&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-40095","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\/40095","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=40095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}