{"id":5659,"date":"2022-01-23T01:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T01:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2022-01-23T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T01:31:58","slug":"ethereum-whales-are-jumping-into-several-altcoins-as-bitcoin-fights-to-break-above-40000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=5659","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Whales Are Jumping Into Several Altcoins As Bitcoin Fights To Break Above $40,000"},"content":{"rendered":"


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New data reveals that the world\u2019s biggest Ethereum (ETH) whales on record are gobbling up stablecoins and other altcoins as Bitcoin (BTC) struggles below $40,000.<\/p>\n

According to whale-monitoring bot WhaleStats, the top 1,000 non-exchange Ethereum<\/a> wallets snapped hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stablecoins USD Coin<\/a> (USDC), Tether<\/a> (USDT) and Binance USD<\/a> (BUSD) as well as and ETH itself in the last seven days.<\/p>\n

The deep-pocketed investors also accumulated $62,569 worth of Polygon<\/a> (MATIC) on average, followed by flexUSD, another stablecoin.<\/p>\n

Coming in at number seven is Hex as Ethereum whales bought an average of $28,133 worth of the crypto asset designed to replace the certificate of deposit.<\/p>\n

Decentralized oracle network Chainlink<\/a> (LINK) takes the eighth with an average purchase amount of $27,934.<\/p>\n

Basic Attention Token<\/a> (BAT), the utility token of anti-ad web browser Brave and Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a> (WBTC), which represents Bitcoin on Ethereum on a 1:1 basis, round out the list.<\/p>\n

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WhaleStats also shows that some of the richest Ethereum whales in existence are making huge individual purchases amid the crypto market pullback.<\/p>\n

The fourth-ranked Ethereum whale on the planet bought nearly 200,000<\/a> LINK worth a staggering $3.90 million and 1,000<\/a> Maker<\/a> (MKR) worth about $1.96 million. MKR is the Ethereum-based governance token of MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that\u2019s used to maintain and regulate the stablecoin DAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 141st-ranked ETH whale also bought LINK \u2013 86,475<\/a> tokens worth $1.69 million. The large wallet also added 1,099,996<\/a> MATIC worth $2.24 million.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the 475th-ranked Ethereum whale purchased 326,994<\/a> SUSHI worth $1.84 million. SUSHI is the governance token of decentralized crypto exchange platform SushiSwap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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