An Ethereum whale—yes, the digital kind holding 10,000 ETH—finally decided to cash in after 900 long days, only to miss a potential peak profit of $27.6 million. According to blockchain sleuths at Lookonchain (via an April 8 X post), the whale had initially snapped up the 10,000 Ether across two transactions back in October and November 2022 for a total of 13 million—averaging a cool $1,295 per token.

Alas, the whale didn’t jump when Ether soared past the $4,000 mark, and ended up selling at around $1,578 per coin. The result? A more modest profit of `2.75 million—hardly the blockbuster windfall that could have been secured when ETH briefly hit a high of $4,015 on December 9, according to CoinGecko. Now, with Ether languishing at roughly $1,426 (a 24% drop over the past week thanks to a broader market sell-off spurred by the Trump administration’s sweeping global tariffs), the missed opportunity stings even more.

Not to be outdone in crypto drama, Trump’s crypto-backed project, World Liberty Financial, also seems to be having a rough day. In an April 9 post, Lookonchain hinted that a wallet possibly linked to the disgraced project offloaded 5,471 ETH (valued at $8.01 million at the time) at 1,465 each—at a loss, apparently. Before this fateful sale, World Liberty Financial was holding a hefty stash of 67,498 Ether, purchased at an average price of $3,259 each.

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Meanwhile, the high-seas adventure of crypto whales continues. On April 7, one unidentified whale had to throw 10,000 Ether (worth over $14.5 million) into the mix to rescue a position of 220,000 Ether—valued at more than 300 million—from liquidation during the market’s bloodbath. And as if scripted by fate, another whale wasn’t as lucky, losing a staggering 67,570 Ether (about $106 million) on April 6 following a liquidation on decentralized lending platform Sky.

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