{"id":49876,"date":"2025-09-27T19:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=49876"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:31:38","slug":"trader-who-bet-1b-on-bitcoin-returns-with-3x-leveraged-long-on-aster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=49876","title":{"rendered":"Trader Who Bet $1B on Bitcoin, Returns With 3x Leveraged Long on Aster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>James Wynn, the pseudonymous trader behind a billion-dollar bitcoin (BTC) bet earlier this year, is back. This time, Wynn is making a leveraged play on ASTER just days after being liquidated on the same token.<\/p>\n<p>Wynn has opened a <a href=\"https:\/\/hypurrscan.io\/address\/0x5078c2fbea2b2ad61bc840bc023e35fce56bedb6\">new 3x leveraged long<\/a> on ASTER, the native token of the emerging Aster perpetuals exchange, worth over $16,000, entering at $1.97 with a liquidation level around $1.57.The move was first spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OnchainLens\/status\/1971900122587189295\">Onchain Lens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the dollar amount seems small compared to Wynn&#8217;s previous positions, the trade is likely to be a hedge on a different position on Aster itself. &#8220;I\u2019m farming the $ASTER airdrop,\u201d the trader <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JamesWynnReal\/status\/1971399570178596870\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cI believe it will be one of the biggest [in] crypto history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move is Wynn\u2019s latest high-risk bet on Hyperliquid, an onchain derivatives platform where he previously took out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/26\/james-wynn-the-trader-who-bet-1b-on-bitcoin-is-now-long-pepe\">a $1.2 billion long on bitcoin<\/a> using 40x leverage.<\/p>\n<p>That position closed with a $17.5 million loss, before he flipped into a billion-dollar short. At one point, he had his entire $50 million wallet on the line.<\/p>\n<p>That wild streak ended with Wynn saying he was walking away \u201ca wynner\u201d after netting $25 million in profit.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/06\/02\/how-james-wynn-s-usd100m-implosion-is-a-leverage-tale-as-old-as-time\">How James Wynn&#8217;s $100M Implosion Is Familiar Leverage Tale<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Wynn, the pseudonymous trader behind a billion-dollar bitcoin (BTC) bet earlier this year, is back. This time, Wynn is making a leveraged play on ASTER just days after being liquidated on the same token. Wynn has opened a new 3x leveraged long on ASTER, the native token of the emerging Aster perpetuals exchange, worth [&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-49876","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\/49876","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=49876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}