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Hyeperliquid’s Top Two Traders Are Betting $1B on Crypto Falling

Open the sourceReported by Bitcoin.com News, news.bitcoin.com, 2 November 2026, by Shiraz Jagati
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The two most profitable traders on Hyperliquid this month are collectively short more than $1 billion in crypto assets, with the largest whale holding over $610 million in short positions across 22 assets and continuing to add. The bearish positioning on the decentralized perpetuals exchange comes as shorting has become the prevailing strategy among top traders on the platform. The concentration of such large directional bets by the platform's most successful accounts could signal institutional-grade bearish sentiment and may influence broader market positioning. Traders and analysts are watching whether these whale positions continue to grow and whether the broader crypto market follows the top traders' bearish lead.

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