{"id":4605,"date":"2022-01-12T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2022-01-12T12:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:21:39","slug":"richest-ethereum-whales-accumulating-two-surging-altcoins-as-top-wallet-buys-15000000-worth-of-polygon-matic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=4605","title":{"rendered":"Richest Ethereum Whales Accumulating Two Surging Altcoins As Top Wallet Buys $15,000,000 Worth of Polygon (MATIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The richest Ethereum whales across the globe are gobbling up two surging altcoins at a rapid rate as most of the crypto market continues to sputter.<\/p>\n<p>WhaleStats <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whalestats.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that in the past week the top 1000-largest Ethereum addresses have purchased <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/matic-network\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Polygon<\/a> (MATIC) and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/chainlink\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Chainlink<\/a> (LINK) more than any other crypto assets after <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/ethereum\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethereum<\/a> (ETH) and the stablecoins <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/usd-coin\/\" rel=\"noopener\">USD Coin<\/a> (USDC) and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/tether\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Tether<\/a> (USDT).<\/p>\n<p>Polygon is a blockchain scaling solution designed to enable the widescale adoption of decentralized apps on the Ethereum blockchain. Its native token, MATIC, is currently trading at $2.33, up more than 17% from where it was priced one month ago.<\/p>\n<p>In one particularly large Polygon transaction, an Ethereum whale <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whalestats.com\/transaction\/ethereum\/0xab106ec3a0c67e0c4f129309a017a8e682c2a6bc0ae4c9b4f7c2329b27e4558e\" rel=\"noopener\">purchased<\/a> more than $15.2 million worth of MATIC in a single trade. The average MATIC purchase among the top 1000 ETH whales is about $530,000, according to WhaleStats.<\/p>\n<p>This week, LINK also flipped <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/litecoin\" rel=\"noopener\">Litecoin<\/a> (LTC) as the most traded token among the top 1000 ETH wallets, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhaleStats\/status\/1480533836220219395\" rel=\"noopener\">WhaleStats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chainlink is a decentralized oracle service connecting smart contracts and allowing any blockchain to access real-world data. The network\u2019s native token, LINK, is trading at $26.45 at time of writing, up more than 34.7% from where it was priced one month ago.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Check <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/crypto-markets\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Price Action<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Don&#8217;t Miss a Beat \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/join-the-daily-hodl-email-list\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a> to get crypto email alerts delivered directly to your inbox <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Follow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDailyHodl\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyhodl\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/thedailyhodl\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegram<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Surf <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/daily-hodl-mix\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Hodl Mix<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"hideinamp\">\n&amp;nbsp<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"maxbutton-4 maxbutton maxbutton-check-out-the-latest-headlines-bigger\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/news\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"mb-text\">Check Latest News Headlines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailyhodl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Get-Alerts-728x90.png?resize=800%2C99&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"99\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Disclaimer: Opinions expressed at The Daily Hodl are not investment advice. 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Please note that The Daily Hodl participates in affiliate marketing.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Featured Image: Shutterstock\/Corona Borealis Studio\/Sensvector<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/2022\/01\/12\/richest-ethereum-whales-accumulating-two-surging-altcoins-as-top-wallet-buys-15000000-worth-of-polygon-matic\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The richest Ethereum whales across the globe are gobbling up two surging altcoins at a rapid rate as most of the crypto market continues to sputter. WhaleStats reports that in the past week the top 1000-largest Ethereum addresses have purchased Polygon (MATIC) and Chainlink (LINK) more than any other crypto assets after Ethereum (ETH) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42],"tags":[2529,200,1533,158,313,1219,3461,3129,114,1130,1582,341],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-altcoins","tag-accumulating","tag-altcoins","tag-buys","tag-ethereum","tag-matic","tag-polygon","tag-richest","tag-surging","tag-top","tag-wallet","tag-whales","tag-worth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/two-surging-matic.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}