Deep-pocketed crypto investors are suddenly shifting more than a billion dollars in Bitcoin (), Ethereum ( and Polygon () as markets dip.
According to new data from whale-surveying platform Whale Alert, crypto whales moved $849.1 million worth of the crypto king during the past two days.
In the largest of the BTC transactions, a whale 10,000 Bitcoin worth $269.4 million from one unknown wallet to another unknown wallet.
The other Bitcoin transactions on Whale Alert’s radar include:
- 1,572 BTC worth $41.40 million transferred from an unknown wallet to crypto liquidity provider B2C2.
- 2,028 BTC worth $53.41 million transferred from an unknown wallet to crypto exchange Coinbase.
- 999 BTC worth $26.38 million transferred from crypto exchange BINANCE to an unknown wallet.
- 867 BTC worth $22.89 million transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet.
- 999 BTC worth $26.65 million transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet.
- 5,500 BTC worth $146.79 million transferred from an unknown wallet to an unknown wallet.
- 9,714 BTC worth $262.07 million transferred from an unknown wallet to an unknown wallet.
Bitcoin is trading for $26,771 at time of writing, a 0.8% decrease during the past 24 hours.
The whale-tracking platform also notes that a crypto whale moved a huge amount of layer-2 scaling solution Polygon. The deep-pocketed investor 30,000,000 MATIC worth $24.94 million from Polygon Staking to an unknown wallet.
Polygon is trading for $0.862 at time of writing, up 2.5% during the past 24 hours.
According to the whale-tracking platform, there were two big transactions of the smart-contract platform Ethereum on May 11th that totaled $164.4 million.
The Ethereum transactions on Whale Alert’s radar include:
- 22,860 ETH $40.46 million transferred from an unknown wallet to crypto exchange Binance.
- 70,000 ETH $123.91 million transferred from an unknown wallet to an unknown wallet.
Ethereum is worth $1,813 at time of writing, up 1% during the past 24 hours.
The whale-tracking platform also notes that high-net-worth traders are shifting XRP, the native asset used to operate Ripple Labs’ payments platform. One crypto whale 50,000,000 XRP, worth $20.95 million at the time, from Ripple to another unknown wallet.
The other XRP transaction on Whale Alert’s radar includes:
XRP is worth $0.429 at time of writing, up 1.9% during the past 24 hours.
