Outstanding blockchain monitoring platform Whale Alert, which screens massive cryptocurrency transfers and shares the small print on its official X account, has noticed six consecutive Ethereum transfers, every carrying barely greater than $100 million value of ETH.
All these transactions happened inside a single hour, based on the on-chain knowledge supply.
168,000 ETH moved mysteriously to unknown wallets
As said above, a number of hours in the past, Whale Alert noticed six huge cryptocurrency transactions, every carrying roughly 27,970 ETH. Every of those transactions was value roughly between $100.5 million and $100.7 million in fiat.
All of them have been transferred between nameless blockchain addresses, totaling roughly 168,000 ETH valued at $603,385,283 as of this writing.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 27,980 #ETH (100,679,275 USD) transferred from unknown pockets to unknown new wallethttps://t.co/wiIY83CQns
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) January 4, 2025
This nameless whale exercise happened as the worth of the second greatest cryptocurrency by market capitalization dimension, Ethereum, printed a surge of just about 6%, going up from $3,430 to the touch on the $3,628 value mark. By now, ETH has seen a small drawdown of roughly 1.5%, and on the time of this writing, it’s altering fingers at $3,575.
BlackRock Ethereum ETF hits huge new milestone
Within the meantime, a Chinese language cryptocurrency journalist and blogger Colin Wu has reported that on Friday, Jan. 3, the general web influx in submit Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) constituted a formidable $58.78 million. The lion share of that comprised the web influx of BlackRock’s ETHA — in a single day, it welcomed $33.88 million.
On January 3, the entire web influx of Ethereum spot ETF was $58.7878 million. The web influx of BlackRock ETF ETHA in a single day was $33.8836 million. At present, the entire web influx of ETHA has reached $3.559 billion. https://t.co/Tvs2oCSxTg pic.twitter.com/suWwNsuqMI
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) January 4, 2025
As of now, the entire inflows of BlackRock’s Ethereum ETF has reached the $3,559 billion mark.
Nonetheless, on the identical day, BlackRock’s Bitcoin spot ETF IBIT confronted the biggest single day outflow of $332.6 million equal to roughly 3,413 BTC. That is the biggest single outflow for the reason that ETF’s launch, which even exceeded the earlier one noticed Dec. 24, when $188.7 million value 1,933 BTC have been dumped by the exchange-traded fund operated by BlackRock large.
Over the last week of 2024, famend Bitcoin investor Robert Kiyosaki criticized BlackRock and its boss Larry Fink for promoting BTC. Kiyosaki said that BlackRock was dumping Bitcoin to maintain its value beneath $100,000 to permit whales to purchase digital gold at a big low cost. Many influencers on the X app then drew public consideration to those big BTC outflows of BlackRock.
