New data from market intelligence firm Santiment reveals that Ethereum () whales have accumulated $4.5 billion worth of ETH in over a month.
The crypto analytics platform its 147,000 Twitter subscribers that deep-pocketed ETH investors have been gobbling up the second largest crypto asset by market cap by the millions since September 11th.
“Since September 11th, Ethereum billionaire whale addresses holding 1 million or more ETH have collectively added 3.5 million more coins. This has increased their cumulative bags by 14%. There are currently 132 such addresses in existence.”
However, Santiment also that smaller ETH whales and ETH sharks have been selling the leading smart contract platform, drastically lowering their token counts. The data shows that the investors sold a combined $4.2 billion worth of ETH over the last five weeks.
The market intelligence firm also notes that the top altcoin’s price has fluctuated against the price of king crypto Bitcoin () due to the actions of this group of investors as the ETH/BTC ratio dropped 12.7% after 3.3 million tokens were sold.
“Ethereum’s shark and whale addresses (holding 100,000 to 1 million ETH) have dropped 3.3 million ETH in just the past five weeks. This equates to about $4.2 billion in dumped coins. The asset’s price vs. Bitcoin has ebbed and flowed based on [the] behavior of these key stakeholders.”
Ethereum, which has seen steady user since it merged from a proof-of-work consensus mechanism to a proof-of-stake one in mid-September, is changing hands for $1,294 at time of writing, a fractional gain on the day.
