BTC $77,112.92 +1.27%
ETH $2,449.10 +3.09%
BNB $699.08 +2.20%
XRP $1.48 +1.24%
SOL $94.14 +1.56%
TRX $0.3443 +0.56%
DOGE $0.0922 +2.66%
ADA $0.2199 +1.73%
BCH $269.94 +0.90%
LINK $11.56 +3.38%
HYPE $80.08 +2.23%
AAVE $143.47 +16.13%
SUI $0.8258 +4.66%
XLM $0.1956 +2.66%
ZEC $841.18 +6.72%
BTC $77,112.92 +1.27%
ETH $2,449.10 +3.09%
BNB $699.08 +2.20%
XRP $1.48 +1.24%
SOL $94.14 +1.56%
TRX $0.3443 +0.56%
DOGE $0.0922 +2.66%
ADA $0.2199 +1.73%
BCH $269.94 +0.90%
LINK $11.56 +3.38%
HYPE $80.08 +2.23%
AAVE $143.47 +16.13%
SUI $0.8258 +4.66%
XLM $0.1956 +2.66%
ZEC $841.18 +6.72%

Data: "ZEC's largest short seller" reduces its ZEC short position, releasing funds to short BTC and ETH with a scale of 17 million

2026-05-12 18:18:15

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, ZEC has fallen from its peak to around $550. The "largest short seller of ZEC" continued to stop-loss and reduce their ZEC short position in the afternoon, with a cumulative closing scale exceeding $5 million. This address previously had a ZEC short position of $12.6 million, and after the reduction, the remaining position is about $8.02 million, with a current floating loss of about $1.17 million.

This short position was opened on March 10 at an average price of about $210, coinciding with a recent local low. At one point, the floating loss reached as high as $2.4 million, enduring several months of holding and averaging down until ZEC experienced a phase correction.

The margin released from reducing ZEC was quickly redirected by this address to short BTC and ETH: a BTC short position was opened shorting 160 coins with 20x leverage, briefly pushing the scale up to $13 million, with an average price of $80,441; an ETH short position was opened shorting 1,866 coins with 15x leverage, with a scale of $4.27 million, at an average price of $2,286. As of the time of writing, both short positions are still being increased.

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