Ethereum whale sells ETH after 900 days, missing $27M possible peak profit

April 8, 2025

The Donald Trump-backed crypto project, World Liberty Financial, may have also sold some of its Ether stash — but at a loss.

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Ethereum whale sells ETH after 900 days, missing $27M possible peak profit

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An Ether whale who had held 10,000 Ether for the last 900 days has sold their entire stash and missed out on a peak profit of $27.6 million when the cryptocurrency was worth over $4,000. 

The whale initially bought a total of 10,000 Ether (ETH) across two transactions in October and November 2022 for $13 million at the time for an average price of $1,295 per token, blockchain analytics service Lookonchain said in an April 8 X post.

“He didn’t sell when Ether broke through $4,000. But today, he exited with a $2.75 million profit. The profit at the peak was $27.6 million,” Lookonchain said.

Source: Lookonchain 

The whale sold when Ether was around $1,578, according to Lookonchain. Within the period that the whale wallet was holding its stack, Ether hit a high of $4,015 on Dec. 9, CoinGecko data shows

Ether is sitting at around $1,426, down 24% over the last seven days amid a broader market sell-off sparked by the Trump administration’s sweeping global tariffs.

ETH hit its all-time high of $4,878 on Nov. 10, 2021, about a year before the whale’s first purchase.

In a separate April 9 post to X, Lookonchain said the Donald Trump-backed crypto project, World Liberty Financial (WLF), might have also sold some of its Ether stash at a loss. 

“A wallet possibly linked to World Liberty sold 5,471 ETH ($8.01M) at $1,465,” Lookonchain wrote.

Source: Lookonchain

Before the supposed sale, Lookonchain said World Liberty Financial had a stash of 67,498 Ether, which it bought at an average price of $3,259.

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Two other whales have also made big moves amid a market bloodbath that has seen some traders buying the dip

On April 7, an unidentified crypto whale had to inject 10,000 Ether— worth more than $14.5 million, to save their position of 220,000 Ether worth more than $300 million from liquidation amid the market slump. 

Another whale wasn’t as lucky, losing 67,570 Ether on April 6, worth around $106 million, when their significant position on decentralized finance lending platform Sky was liquidated. 

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