The FED’s September Interest Rate Decision
The FED revealed its highly awaited September interest rate decision last night, initiating the interest rate cut cycle with a reduction of 25 basis points, which was anticipated by many.
Whale Activity Following the Rate Cut
As the FED is projected to keep lowering interest rates throughout the remainder of 2025, significant activity from whales has also been observed in the wake of the FED’s announcement.
Major Ethereum Purchase
According to a post by Lookonchain, an anonymous whale acquired $112.3 million in Ethereum (ETH) shortly after the FED’s decision. Data shows that an anonymous whale address, beginning with 0xd8d0, received 25,000 ETH valued at $112.34 million from Wintermute right after the Fed’s interest rate cut announcement.
This transaction is thought to have been an over-the-counter purchase at an average price of $4,493 per token.
Withdrawals and Additional Purchases
Another whale address, 0x96F4, withdrew 15,200 ETH valued at $70.44 million from Binance in the last few hours. Additionally, an anonymous whale address starting with 0x1370 spent 5.71 million USDC over the past 26 hours, purchasing 101,615 HYPE at a price of $56.2.
Chainlink Sale
While some whales were buying in anticipation of a surge following the Fed’s decision, one whale opted to sell Chainlink (LINK). According to Lookonchain, this whale sold all 938,489 LINK tokens for $21.46 million, which had been acquired a month earlier at an average price of $22.87, resulting in a profit of $212,000.
Highly Leveraged Trades by a Gambler
In a further development, a high-risk investor reportedly opened two highly leveraged trades. The account noted that gambler 0x2226 executed a long position valued at $82 million in 700 Bitcoin (BTC) using 40x leverage approximately four hours ago. Additionally, this address initiated a long position amounting to $29.6 million with 120,000 Solana (SOL) and 20x leverage.
Reported liquidation prices were $114,560 for BTC and $231.35 for SOL.
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