$10.3M IN $IRYS MOVED TO FRESH WALLETS — UNLOCK TOMORROW
Two multisigs sent 126M $IRYS worth around $10.3M to two brand-new wallets last night.
Here’s the detail that caught my attention: both wallets received gas from a Gate-linked account roughly 3 hours before the tokens arrived. That suggests the wallets were prepared in advance.
Neither wallet has moved a single token yet, but both have gas and are ready to make a move.
The timing is what makes this interesting. IRYS had just surged around 570% in a single day, and another 77.6M tokens unlock tomorrow.
Are these wallets preparing for distribution, or is there another plan? We can’t know from transfers alone.
126M tokens sitting untouched. A major unlock ahead. This is one I’m watching closely.
$10M $BTW TRANSFER + EXTREME NEGATIVE FUNDING — SHORTS ARE PAYING UP
13 hours ago, 5.34M $BTW worth around $9.99M moved from Gate’s hot wallet to its cold wallet.
But the derivatives data makes this even more interesting. BTW is trading around $1.755, with open interest at $36.6M.
Funding is deeply negative at -1.251% per 4 hours, meaning shorts are paying longs. Around 58% of accounts are short, while futures volume is 13x spot volume.
Meanwhile, Gate deposit wallets and Bitget-related wallets have continued moving tokens around.
Here’s the setup: if price pushes higher while funding stays deeply negative, crowded shorts could face pressure. But if momentum fades, leverage can unwind quickly.
Exchange flows, extreme funding, and a heavily short-skewed market BTW is worth watching closely.
A hot-to-cold transfer doesn’t confirm selling, and account ratios don’t necessarily reflect position size.
$IRYS IS STILL PUMPING BUT EXCHANGE INFLOWS ARE GETTING INTERESTING
My scanner flagged $IRYS 8 hours ago: +14% in one hour, with open interest up 21%.
Then leverage kept piling in. OI jumped from $19.2M to $31M in just 3 hours.
And the move hasn’t stopped. Price just ran from roughly $0.066 to $0.080 in 22 minutes.
But look at the flows. Around 14M IRYS moved into KuCoin, Gate, and Bitget while price was pumping. Another 4.75M IRYS moved from Upbit to OKX in three transfers.
That’s the part I’m watching. Exchange deposits can mean potential selling pressure, but transfers alone don’t confirm a sell Price is climbing. OI is expanding. Tokens are moving onto exchanges.
$IRYS is trading around $0.0406, up 119%, and the derivatives setup is getting wild.
66% of accounts are reportedly short, while open interest has surged 218% to $32.8M roughly 39% of market cap.
Meanwhile, over 40M IRYS tokens moved across Upbit, OKX, and KuCoin hot wallets, reportedly starting around $0.021. But exchange wallet movements alone don’t confirm fresh buying or coordinated preparation.
if spot demand keeps pushing higher, crowded shorts could face liquidations and fuel another leg up. But there’s a flip side. When OI climbs this fast, leverage can amplify the downside just as quickly if momentum fades.
IRYS has squeeze potential, but the next move depends on actual buying pressure and whether shorts start getting forced out.
$640K ROTATION THE WHALE BEHIND THE $BTW EXIT IS BUYING $SOON & $Q
Remember the wallet that sent around $3.4M worth of BTW to exchanges just days before the token topped? Its next moves are getting interesting.
Four hours ago, the wallet withdrew 1.48M SOON worth around $447K and 1.58M Q worth around $194K from Bitget, using test transfers before moving the full amounts.
That’s roughly $640K moved into two positions, with SOON now reportedly its largest holding.
Then, 21 minutes ago, it sent 10 Q to a brand-new wallet — potentially another test transfer before a larger move, though that’s not confirmed.
The timing raises questions about whether this wallet is rotating capital after its BTW activity. But exchange withdrawals alone don’t prove a bullish position or predict the next move.
Someone withdrew 35M $Q worth around $4.4M from Bitget last night into a fresh wallet, buying around $0.125.
Now is Q trading near $0.112, putting that position at roughly $3.92M an estimated $480K unrealized loss if the wallet still holds the full amount.
The wallet holds nothing else and has no BNB for gas, so it currently can’t move the tokens on-chain without funding its gas balance.
Here’s the interesting part: on the same day, the whale I’ve been tracking sent 33M Q to Gate. One wallet withdrew heavily while another sent a huge amount toward an exchange.
After spiking near $0.21, Q is back near the lower end of its range.
+$106K UNREALIZED — THE $BR WHALE STILL HASN’T SOLD
Remember the wallet that withdrew around 400K $BR from Bybit three days ago? It still hasn’t moved a single token.
The wallet pulled its position at roughly $0.34, putting the original value near $134K. With $BR now around $0.60, that same stack is worth approximately $240K an unrealized gain of about 79% based on the original entry.
What makes this interesting is the patience. Despite the price moving sharply higher, the wallet continues to hold.
$4.54M BUYING PATTERN — SOMEONE IS LOADING UP ON $Q
Around 35.3M $Q worth of $4.54M moved through a repeating buying pattern in roughly one hour.
The wallets are receiving $Q in 3–4M batches through Binance-linked flows, with tokens going to three addresses in the same rotation: Wallet A → Wallet B → Wallet C, then repeating again and again.
The reported buying range is around $0.127–$0.130, and two new wallets started receiving tokens in the last five minutes.
That repeated sequence makes the activity look coordinated. It could be one buyer or an automated system splitting a larger operation across multiple wallets, but wallet links alone don’t prove who controls them or why they’re split.
$1.16M WHALE POSITION — IS THIS FRESH $BR ACCUMULATION?
A fresh wallet is quietly building a sizeable $BR position, and the latest transfers caught my attention.
The wallet was funded with just 0.1 B from Bithumb 12 days ago.
Today, it received 2.525M BR worth around $1.12M from wallet 0x49f3, followed by another roughly 45K BR from Bithumb-linked addresses in just 40 minutes.
Its total balance now stands at 2.571M $BR , worth approximately $1.16M.
So far, no tokens have moved out. The wallet also has gas available, meaning it can move the tokens at any time.
This could be accumulation or wallet consolidation, so I’m not calling it a confirmed buy signal yet.
14M $Q SENT TO GATE THE ROTATION I CALLED 4 DAYS AGO MAY BE STARTING
Four days ago, I said this “Cumberland DRW?” wallet could rotate out of $Q next. Today, it sent another 14M Q to Gate.
The transfers came in three batches: 3M and 5M tokens worth around $1.03M combined, followed by another 6M worth roughly $558K.
Here’s the bigger picture: the wallet previously withdrew 33M Q from Gate around $0.022–$0.049, while the recent deposits are happening around $0.09–$0.13.
It still holds around 19M Q worth $2.1M.
The pattern looks similar to its earlier $BTW activity: accumulation, price expansion, exchange deposits, then a possible rotation. That doesn’t prove the tokens were sold or confirm what comes next.
$615M ETF OUTFLOWS BUT BIG BITCOIN WALLETS ARE BUYING?
$BTC ETFs have recorded around $615M in net outflows this October, according to the figures shared from Farside. Across 12 trading days, 6 were red and 6 green, but the outflow days hit harder.
October 7 was the worst, with roughly $485M leaving. Fidelity’s FBTC saw around $472M in outflows, while ARKB lost $215M.
Meanwhile, BlackRock’s IBIT recorded $190M in inflows. But here’s the interesting part: Santiment data reportedly shows wallets holding 10–10,000 BTC accumulated around 86,700 BTC in the three weeks leading into early October.
ETF flows look weak, while large on-chain wallets appear to be accumulating.
If FBTC outflows continue while IBIT holds up, this could point to rotation between products rather than a broad institutional exit. Still, ETF flows and wallet activity don’t tell the whole market story.
$1.2M IN DEPOSITS — IS $BTW SELLING PRESSURE BUILDING?
A $10M $BTW transfer on Gate.io caught attention, but it wasn’t a whale selling. Gate moved 4.12M BTW from its hot wallet to cold storage.
The more interesting signal is what happened alongside it.
Over the past 14 hours, around 500K $BTW worth $1.2M flowed into Gate while the price climbed from $2.15 to $2.64. One address alone deposited roughly 370K tokens.
Exchange cold-wallet movements can be routine operations, but deposits from external wallets during a rally are worth tracking.