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Hyperliquid Whale Down $9 Million This Week Flips to a 20x Tesla Bet

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The Hyperliquid trader behind a $98 million bitcoin long has dumped the position at a loss and moved into $46 million of leveraged Tesla and chip-stock bets, two days before Tesla reports earnings. Bitcoin.com News first covered this wallet on Sunday, when it held a 40x bitcoin long worth about $98 million , roughly 1.6% from liquidation. The trades since then, pulled from the wallet’s onchain history , appear to read like one bad call after another: Onchain trackers tallied the exit at a $3.26 million loss. Hyperliquid portfolio data on Hyperdash shows the wallet down about $9.53 million over the past week and $6.52 million over the past month.

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