🔥 BREAKING: Trend Research Suffers Massive ~$686M Loss on Leveraged Ethereum Position
Trend Research, a crypto investment firm tied to Jack Yi’s LD Capital, has just faced a **huge loss of roughly $686 million after unwinding a $2 billion long Ethereum position due to aggressive market drawdowns.
Here’s the breakdown:
📉 The Trade Structure
• Trend Research built a leveraged long ETH position using Aave, borrowing stablecoins against ETH collateral to fund purchases.
• At its peak, the position included hundreds of thousands of ETH with heavy exposure and collateral backing.
⚠️ The Market Turned Sharply Against Them
• Ethereum slid hard amid market stress — briefly dipping into the $1,700–$1,800 range from monthly highs around $3,300 — a brutal 40%+ move.
• As ETH’s price fell, the value of the collateral dropped faster than the debt, pushing the firm’s position toward dangerous liquidation thresholds on Aave.
💥 Loss and Deleveraging Actions
• Trend Research began selling ETH to repay debt and avoid forced liquidations — transferring hundreds of thousands of ETH to Binance and other venues to repay stablecoin loans.
• The leveraged unwind resulted in a realized loss of about $686 million for the firm.
• On-chain data shows massive movement of ETH to exchanges, signaling ongoing deleveraging and risk-management efforts.
📊 Wider Market Impact
This event illustrates the risks of large leveraged positions in volatile markets — when market liquidity dries up and prices swing quickly, even institutional players with deep capital can incur huge losses and be forced to reduce exposure quickly.
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💬 Trend Research gets wrecked by ETH volatility — $686M loss on a forced unwind. 😬
Crypto doesn’t care about leverage — only price and risk. 😎
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