ChainCatcher message, well-known trader Ansem posted on platform X: "If you were to ask me what I learned in the past three years, it is that shorting ETH is always safe, with zero proportion of unsafe time. Even if we look at it over a million years, shorting ETH will never be unsafe."

ChainCatcher message, according to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, in the past half hour, a trader address with an 82% win rate in a certain range has borrowed 3000 ETH from Aave again and sold 2006 of them at an average price of $3660.9 (approximately $7.34 million); currently, their short position has increased to 23,616 ETH, worth $86.67 million, with an average short price of $3475.59, resulting in an unrealized loss of $4.568 million.

ChainCatcher message, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale has sold 21,613 ETH after borrowing, currently facing an unrealized loss of 3.76 million dollars.

ChainCatcher message, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a certain whale sold 200 WBTC in the past 2 hours, worth approximately 20.89 million USD. Currently, its average short price for 420 WBTC is 103,375 USD, with a total value of about 43.42 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to short-selling research firm S3 Partners, the short interest in Bitcoin mining stocks has surged by 50% over the past 30 days, reaching $4.6 billion.This is the highest level for 2024, with Bitcoin mining stocks like Riot, Marathon Digital, and CleanSpark seeing price increases of 86%, 55%, and 73% respectively since September, far exceeding Bitcoin's gains.Matthew Unterman, Managing Director at S3 Partners, stated that this rapid increase could trigger a short squeeze, leading to market volatility.

ChainCatcher news, according to a report by Reuters, since Bitcoin soared to an all-time high on November 6, short sellers of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related stocks have suffered significant losses. Data analytics firm Ortex revealed that from November 6 to November 8, traders shorting MicroStrategy (MSTR.O) lost over $1.2 billion, with losses exceeding $6 billion year-to-date.As of the close on November 8, short sellers of cryptocurrency exchange operator Coinbase Global, crypto mining companies Riot Platform, MARA Holdings, and Bitfarms have collectively lost about $1.2 billion. Additionally, since November 6, investors shorting BlackRock's Bitcoin exchange-traded fund iShares Bitcoin Trust have lost nearly $37 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, after BTC reached an all-time high, a whale that shorted BTC was liquidated for 74.98 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to data released by Deribit officials: Today’s largest ETH block options trade involved a user selling 850 ETH of March 2024 $2600 put options and $2800 call options, earning a premium of $747,000.It was stated that the user is shorting volatility, with a profit range of $1950 to $4200, achieving a coin-based return of 32.3%.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the AI-driven crypto application Sharpe AI has completed the SAI Season 1 airdrop snapshot and will open the airdrop eligibility query today.According to data from the crypto platform RootData, in April of this year, Sharpe Labs announced the completion of its seed round financing, with participation from Animoca Brands, GBV Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Maven Capital, Metabros, Contango Digital Assets, Ape Terminal, and AIT Protocol. The specific amount of financing has not been disclosed.

ChainCatcher message, according to on-chain analyst @ali_charts monitoring, 55% of BTC contract accounts in Binance Futures are shorting.

ChainCatcher news, Matrixport released a report stating that historically, a rebound is expected after shorting Bitcoin. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) has reached its lowest level since last August, when Bitcoin fell by 10% due to factors such as changes in the Chinese real estate market, and at that time, the trading price of Bitcoin was close to $25,000.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by lookonchain, the address sifuvision.eth spent 300,000 USDT to purchase 1.37 million CRV at a low price of $0.2184 after a large liquidation of CRV.It is reported that this whale is shorting CRV and currently has a debt of 15 million CRV (approximately $4.04 million) on UwULend.Before the liquidation of CRV today, this whale withdrew 6 million crvUSD from Curve LlamaLend, causing Michale Egorov's borrowing rate to rise.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin-listed mining company Riot Platforms (RIOT) underperformed its peers on Wednesday, after the renowned short-selling firm Kerrisdale Capital announced its short position on RIOT stock while going long on Bitcoin (BTC). It is reported that Riot's stock was one of the worst-performing cryptocurrency-related stocks on Wednesday, falling over 6%. A representative from Riot did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

ChainCatcher news, according to a report by Reuters, data from S3 Partners shows that investors shorting MicroStrategy have lost $1.92 billion since March. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a Bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF), bringing this once-emerging asset class closer to the mainstream.In addition, investors shorting the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and the Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark have lost $593.5 million and $106.4 million, respectively.

ChainCatcher news, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart stated on social media that Defiance Investments has submitted an application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue a 2x leveraged Ethereum futures exchange-traded fund (ETF), which is planned to be listed under the code $ETHL.In addition, Defiance Investments has recently applied to issue a 2x leveraged ETF that shorts MicroStrategy ($MSTR) stock. According to the application documents, the daily return of this short ETF will be -2 times the return of MicroStrategy's stock price.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale continues to spend 8.8 million USDC to buy 132 WBTC and has begun to reduce its short position on the GMX platform:Over the past few days, he has spent a total of 17.95 million USDC to buy 278.8 WBTC on-chain, with an average price of $64,400.Reduced the BTC short position on the GMX platform from $20.5 million to $13.8 million; reduced the ETH short position from $7.61 million to $6.9 million.

According to ChainCatcher news, on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitored that a high-win-rate whale, which previously focused on long positions, borrowed 6,600 ETH from Maker 7 hours ago and sold it all at an average price of $2,230, worth $14.72 million.Subsequently, the whale bought back all the tokens at an average price of $2,208 when ETH dropped and repaid the loan, ultimately making a profit of $497,000.