The identity of the mysterious whale has been revealed.
A whale recently sold over $4.2 billion worth of BTC to buy ETH - and also opened a $735 million short position on BTC.
Between August and September, he sold over 35,000 BTC to accumulate ETH, which was then sent to staking.
The address that opened the ~$735M BTC short received funds for fees from a linked wallet.
Shortly before that, the same wallet transferred around $4.1 million.
The ENS address “ereignis.eth” is connected to another name, garrettjin.eth, which points to the Twitter user
@GarrettBullish.
Garrett Jin is an economist and Boston University graduate. He previously worked at China Construction Bank and later became COO at Huobi (HTX).
He founded a medical startup in Germany and later served as CEO of Bitforex Exchange (which was involved in scandals and fund losses).
He later launched several crypto projects: the TanglePay wallet, the IotaBee exchange, and the GroupFi messenger.
The ENS name ereignis.eth (“event” in German) confirms his connection to this wallet - he’s directly involved in major trades on Hyperliquid / Hyperunit. The founder of Hyperunit follows his account.
Since 2024, he has been the founder of XHash, an institutional ETH staking platform (non-custodial). Investigators claim that some of the staked ETH might have been used in questionable schemes.
After the investigation was published, he removed “XHash” from his bio and changed his profile picture - but the Telegram reference remains.
As of now, his current holdings total 46,295 BTC (~$5.2 billion).