Bitcoin slipped on Sunday to touch a low of $110,671 per coin and is now changing hands at $110,972, with chatter swirling that a major whale unloaded 24,000 BTC in the past 24 hours.
Hyperunit Becomes Whale’s Crypto Playground
According to Sani, the operator of timechainindex.com, a whale moved thousands of bitcoins to Hyperunit. “This entity still holds a total of 152,874 BTC across all associated addresses, including 5,266 BTC in the address shown below,” Sani wrote. The onchain analyst added:
“The funds originally came from HTX about six years ago and had remained inactive until recent transactions involving one of their addresses containing approximately 24,000 BTC.”
Some speculate the whale is shifting from BTC into ETH. Moreover, the funds were diverted to Hyperunit. “This entity liquidated their entire 24K balance, sending all of it to Hyperunit,” Sani wrote in another post. “They moved 12K just today and remain actively selling, likely pressuring the price.”
Hyperunit is a decentralized protocol for asset tokenization and cross-chain infrastructure, designed specifically for the Hyperliquid crypto exchange. The project posted on X to clarify that a whale had been making use of its platform. “As of now, they have sold 19,663 BTC across the 2 entities ($2.22B) and bought 455,672 ETH ($2.19B) since they started 4 days ago,” Hyperunit remarked.
During this stretch, Hyperunit claimed it hit a record 24-hour spot volume of more than $3.2 billion. That figure topped the combined BTC spot volumes of Coinbase and Bybit and nearly matched BTC/ USDT activity on Binance. Even under the heavy strain, Hyperunit stressed that the infrastructure and guardian network functioned flawlessly, handling billions in deposits and withdrawals without a single outage.
The whale’s choice to funnel billions from bitcoin into ethereum shows how a single move can send waves across the market. With Hyperunit serving as the vehicle, the pivot spotlights how modern trading platforms are rising, proving they can handle immense stress while subtly altering liquidity flows between crypto’s top assets. The question now is whether BTC can rebound from the weight.