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This Whale Keeps Grabbing Ethereum (ETH) Despite Price Rise - Potential Reason

Fri, 02/17/2023 - 14:50
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Yuri Molchan
Nearly $90 million in Ethereum bought when ETH price jumped this week
This Whale Keeps Grabbing Ethereum (ETH) Despite Price Rise - Potential Reason
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According to the @lookonchain platform that tracks "smart money" crypto transactions, a whale has purchased a large amount of Ethereum from two major exchanges recently. He did that despite the short price rise that happened earlier this week.

54,000 ETH added by whale on rise

The aforementioned investor accumulated 47,729 Ethereum in total from Coinbase and Gemini exchange, paying nearly $80 million for it.

A screenshot shared by @lookonchain shows that there were three purchase transactions of 14,871 ETH; 16,535 ETH and 10,214 ETH. This occurred on Feb. 15 and 16, when the ETH price briefly went up to the $1,680 level.

Two more purchases were made after the price dropped to the $1,663 mark earlier today. At press time, Ethereum is trading at $1,662, per the data shared by CoinMarketCap.

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Is whale adding ETH before Shanghai?

A possible reason for these purchases despite the price fluctuation is that the whale is betting on the ETH price to rise after the Shanghai upgrade is implemented.

After Shanghai takes place, which is expected to happen in February, coins staked in the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract will be released. It is also expected to reduce transaction fees and enable the Ethereum network to handle a larger number of transactions than it can do now.

Many investors, however, expect the price to demonstrate a sharp drop once all of the staked ETH are released onto the market.

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About the author

Yuri is a crypto journalist interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been in crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have a potential to transform the world in the future in many of its aspects. ‘Hodls’ major cryptocurrencies and has written for multiple crypto media outlets. 

His articles have been quoted by such crypto influencers as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.

Currently Yuri is a news writer at U.Today and can be contacted at yuri.molchan@u.today.