A certain whale's ASTER and ETH holdings were liquidated, and their AVNT long position was closed, resulting in a total loss of $4.21 million.

By: theblockbeats.news|2026/01/19 05:30:13

BlockBeats News, January 19th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale holding ASTER and ETH was liquidated and AVNT long position was closed, resulting in a total loss of $4.21 million.

Subsequently, the whale re-entered a 25x leveraged long position on ETH, with the current position worth $11.18 million, with an unrealized loss of approximately $138,000. Details are as follows:

· ASTER Loss: $3.74 million

· ETH Loss: $0.25 million
· AVNT Loss: $0.223 million

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