{"id":24523,"date":"2025-06-05T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/james-wynn-hyperliquid-whale-loses-25-million-in-partial-liquidation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:02:05","slug":"james-wynn-hyperliquid-whale-loses-25-million-in-partial-liquidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/james-wynn-hyperliquid-whale-loses-25-million-in-partial-liquidation\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wynn, Hyperliquid Whale, Loses $25 Million in Partial Liquidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The self-proclaimed &#8220;king of perpetual futures,&#8221; James Wynn, faced partial liquidation, resulting in a loss of 240 BTC (~$25 million).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Wynn(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesWynnReal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JamesWynnReal<\/a>) just got liquidated for 240 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($25.16M).<\/p>\n<p>He also manually closed part of his position to lower the liquidation price.<\/p>\n<p>He still holds 770 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($80.5M), with a liquidation price of $104,035.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FX6sISWuDP\">https:\/\/t.co\/FX6sISWuDP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZrroIyP9LZ\">pic.twitter.com\/ZrroIyP9LZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1930264806348730466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Lookonchain, the trader also manually closed part of his position to reduce the liquidation price.<\/p>\n<p>Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/hypurrscan.io\/address\/0x5078C2fBeA2b2aD61bc840Bc023E35Fce56BeDb6\">Hypurrscan<\/a> shows that the open position exceeds 776 BTC (~$81 million).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wynn-1024x383.png\" alt=\"Wynn\" class=\"wp-image-259990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wynn-1024x383.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wynn-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wynn-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wynn.png 1490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Hypurrscan.\u00a0<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shortly before the partial liquidation, Wynn made a desperate appeal to the community for a &#8220;rescue purchase&#8221; of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BUY <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> SAVE ME!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Wynn (@JamesWynnReal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesWynnReal\/status\/1930238882593026394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The entry price for the long position was $106,066. With the current Bitcoin rate around $104,480, the unrealized loss exceeds $1.2 million. The position will be liquidated if the price of the leading cryptocurrency falls to $103,950.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wynn&#8217;s connection to Hyperliquid remains unclear. Wintermute founder Evgeny Gaevoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/357056\/crypto-trader-james-wynn-partial-liquidation-bitcoin\">suggested<\/a> that he might have acted as a &#8220;paid actor&#8221; to draw attention to the platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in June, the current 40x leveraged long <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/trader-james-wynn-reopens-140-million-bitcoin-long-position\">was opened on June 3<\/a>. Amid the rise in digital gold prices, Wynn increased the position from $100 million to $140 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This occurred just days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/whales-losses-on-hyperliquid-near-100-million\">liquidation<\/a> of a similar trade following Bitcoin&#8217;s drop below $105,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self-proclaimed &#8220;king of perpetual futures,&#8221; James Wynn, faced partial liquidation, resulting in a loss of 240 BTC (~$25 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1267,1156],"class_list":["post-24523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-trading","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"175","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}