There have been notable developments in the cryptocurrency market.
World Liberty Financial (WLFI) announced that it has bought back 6.04 million tokens ($1.06 million) and subsequently burned 7.89 million tokens ($1.43 million).
The company collected a total of 4.91 million WLFI ($1.01 million) and $1.06 million in transaction fees across the Solana, BSC, and Ethereum networks. $1.06 million of these funds were used to buy back 6.04 million WLFI. A subsequent burn of 7.89 million WLFI was carried out on BSC and Ethereum. On Solana, 3.06 million WLFI ($638,000) remained unburned.
However, a mysterious whale was observed creating a new wallet at address 0xd80D and preparing 71.5 million USDC for XPL purchases. The whale has so far deposited 30 million USDC into the Hyperliquid exchange, purchasing 12.91 million XPL ($17.4 million), and the purchases are reportedly ongoing.
In another noteworthy transaction, a wallet with the address 0xFB3B withdrew 5 million ASTER ($9.9 million) and 6.34 million ASTER ($12.95 million) from Gate.io, respectively. These two whales currently hold a total of 129.59 million ASTER ($259 million), equivalent to 7.82% of the circulating supply.
*This is not investment advice.