5715

It looks like Machi(
@machibigbrother
) is really running out of money.

He withdrew only 1,540 $USDC from #Binance.

He had to sell Bored Ape #5715 for just 8.3 $ETH ($15,570), which he bought for 34.17 $ETH 3 years ago, to keep his $ETH long going.

Current position: 2,800…

WHALE DUMPED HIS BORED APE TO SAVE A $5.3M $ETH LONG 🐋🔥

Liquidation Level: $1,863.08 ⚠️

When the chips are down, even the Bored Apes get sold. 🐒 The "Whale Whisperer" Huang Lizheng just dumped BAYC #5715 for 8.3 ETH — a token he picked up 3 years ago for 34.17 ETH. That's a haircut that stings. The withdrawal of just 1,540 USDC from the exchange signals tight liquidity, not conviction.

This isn't a style play — it's survival. The man is still holding 2,800 ETH ($5.3M) in longs with a liquidation line at $1,863.08. Every ETH dip below that could trigger a cascade. The Ape was the fuel; the position is the fire. 🔥

Does selling a blue-chip NFT to defend a long tell you the whale is confident — or cornered? 💭

⚠️ Not financial advice. Always manage your risk. 🛡️

🏷️ #ETH #WhaleAlert #CryptoWhales #NFT #Ethereum

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WHALE SELLS BAYC AT 76% LOSS TO DEFEND $ETH LONG 🔥🧊

Stop Loss (Liquidation): $1,863.08 ⚠️

The "Whale Whisperer" Huang Lizheng is showing textbook signs of liquidity strain. He just dumped Bored Ape #5715 for 8.3 ETH (~$15,600) — the same NFT cost him 34.17 ETH three years ago. That's a brutal 76% haircut, and it's not a portfolio rebalance; it's capitulation-driven capital raising. 📉

More telling: he pulled only 1,540 USDC off the exchange while defending a 2,800 ETH long worth ~$5.3M. Every scrap of liquidity is being marshaled to keep that position above water, with the liquidation trigger sitting at $1,863.08. Institutional patience meets margin reality. 🎯

The question isn't whether he's underwater on the NFT — it's whether this ETH long survives the next volatility spike. When whales start selling blue-chip art to fund leverage, smart money is telling us something. Do you think $1,863 holds, or is this the first crack in conviction? 🤔

⚠️ Not financial advice. Always manage your risk. 🛡️

🏷️ #ETH #Ethereum #CryptoWhales #NFTs #MarketStructure

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🍳 COOKING BNB — Daily Digest · Aug 13 · 09:00 UTC · 18:00 KST
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🟠 Bitwise CIO sees market repricing as crypto embraces ‘revenue fever’ — The Block
🟠 Huang Licheng withdrew 1,540 USDC from Binance and sold Bored Ape #5715 to maintain ETH long position — PANews
🟠 Securitize falls 16% after earnings miss, tokenization revenue drops — Cointelegraph

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“Maji Big Brother” bought BAYC #5715 for 34.17 ETH three years ago. Now he’s cutting losses and liquidating it at 8.3 ETH, losing three-quarters. After flipping, he added to his ETH long position, topping it up to 2,800 ETH (about $5.3 million). His liquidation price is $1,863.
Even the big shots are starting to sell apes to replenish their balance 😇 This isn’t averaging down—it’s clearly keeping the long position alive. If ETH doesn’t rally again, the next person to be liquidated will be the story’s protagonist.

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Machi the giant whale’s situation is a very specific footnote to the current market: he withdrew only 1,540 USDC from Binance, but sold Bored Ape #5715 that he bought 3 years ago with 34.17 ETH, receiving back only 8.3 ETH—just to keep a long position of 2,800 ETH (about $5.3 million) alive. The liquidation price is $1,863, which is some distance from the current price, but he has already started selling NFTs to top up margin, indicating this spot is not comfortable for leveraged longs.

BTC’s liquidation map is even more intuitive: $1.27 billion of long liquidations are clustered at 62.7K, while $3.65 billion of short liquidations are clustered at 66K. Seth’s line about “both on the way down and on this chop” captures the key point—both the drop and the sideways chop have been harvesting positions. Around 63K there are also newly added long positions, but the short liquidity around 66K remains thick.

Under this kind of structure, short-term direction isn’t something you guess from fundamentals—it depends on which side’s liquidity gets consumed first. Since the shorts are stacked more heavily, a script that sweeps upward to 66K is more likely to attract capital attention. But the long liquidation zone around 63K is also there; in the current environment, back-and-forth tug-of-war within the range is more consistent than a clean one-way breakout.

XRP around $1.01 hasn’t escaped its predicament either: a bridge vulnerability stacked with a slightly bearish technical setup has left the price clinging to a key level, but it hasn’t really stabilized. In the same market, BTC has large liquidation battles, while XRP has fundamental bearish headwinds—so it’s hard to say this is a “broad market up” logic right now.

South Korea’s KOSPI has jumped 22% in ten days, driven by an AI rally. The strength of this kind of traditional risk asset can indeed spill over into crypto sentiment, but the main internal contradiction in crypto right now is leverage and liquidity—not simply a return of risk appetite.

Taken together, these messages point to one thing: the longs aren’t dead yet, but leveraged longs are being worn down repeatedly, as the market looks for the next liquidity gap. Direction isn’t absent—it just has to wait until one side of the liquidation map gets breached.

🚨 Huang Licheng’s move this time is a bit tight. According to PANews, he just withdrew 1,540 USDC from Binance, and immediately sold the Bored Ape #5715 he bought with 34 ETH three years ago, at a price of 8.3 ETH. This clearly is to save himself—turning his most valuable NFT into cash to plug the funding hole for the ETH long position. He now still holds 2,800 ETH, with a liquidation price around $1,863. If the price drops further, this round of adding funds may have to continue.

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Latest news: On August 13, according to monitoring by OnchainDataNerd, “Ah Ma Ji Big Brother” Huang Licheng’s recent funding pressure may have increased somewhat. He has withdrawn only 1,540 USDC from Binance. Meanwhile, to maintain his ETH long position, he sold Bored Ape Yacht Club #5715 for a price of 8.3 ETH (about $15,600), while that NFT’s purchase price three years ago was 34.17 ETH. Currently, his ETH long position stands at 2,800 ETH, valued at approximately $5.3 million, with a liquidation price of $1,863.08.

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