
{"id":51948,"date":"2025-03-14T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=51948"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:30:00","slug":"uniswap-bleeds-20-is-this-whale-behind-the-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=51948","title":{"rendered":"Uniswap Bleeds 20%\u2014Is This Whale Behind The Drop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One crypto exchange\u2019s loss is another crypto exchange\u2019s gain. This holds true with cryptocurrency exchange Uniswap after it recorded a weekly loss of over 20% brought by a large investor offloading a huge number of tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Uniswap\u2019s loss was Kraken\u2019s gain after the said whale transferred 2.25 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/uniswap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNI<\/a> tokens to the cryptocurrency exchange platform in what analysts believed was an attempt to cut losses.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Uniswap Down<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Analysts said that UNI, Uniswap\u2019s native token, posted a weekly loss of 20% after the coin went down by 2.80% in the last 24 hours. The massive loss brought UNI\u2019s price to go down to $5.80 on W\u0435dn\u0435sd\u0430y.<\/p>\n<p>According to a crypto analyst, the drop, which came amid the heightened selling pressure, can be attributed to a large investor who offloaded a big chunk of his UNI tokens and transferred it to another crypto exchange platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA whale deposited all 2.25M $UNI($13.71M) to #Kraken 2 hours ago,\u201d Lookonchain said.<\/p>\n<p>A whale deposited all 2.25M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24UNI&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$UNI<\/a>($13.71M) to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kraken?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kraken<\/a> 2 hours ago, likely to cut losses.<\/p>\n<p>The whale accumulated 2.25M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24UNI&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$UNI<\/a>($15.57M) at an average price of $6.92 between Sept 7, 2023 and Nov 18, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>At its peak, the whale had an unrealized profit of $26.5M but is now down\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7pA0glRT4m\">pic.twitter.com\/7pA0glRT4m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1899648554332983413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2><strong>\u2018Cut Losses\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In a post, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1899648554332983413\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lookonchain<\/a> believed that the whale could be ditching an effort to \u201ccut losses\u201d after a considerable unrealized gain from the UNI token vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whale accumulated 2.25M $UNI($15.57M) at an average price of $6.92 between Sept. 7, 2023 and Nov. 18, 2024,\u201d Lookonchain shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At its peak, the market observer said the large investor recorded an unrealized profit of $26.5 million. However, recent market conditions have brought down UNI\u2019s unrealized earnings to only $1.86 million, which might be the primary reason why the whale decided to move $13.71 million worth of UNI tokens to Kraken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bearish Signal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another crypto analyst observed that indicators showed a bearish picture for Uniswap.\u00a0Santiment shared his analysis on what could be the future of Uniswap using the on-chain metrics, saying that the Exchange Flow balance increased from -428,920 to 2.23 million within two days.<\/p>\n<p>The metric, which tracks the net movement of tokens into and out of exchange wallets, showed that there is a possible surge in selling pressure, indicating that many tokens are being moved into exchange wallets.<\/p>\n<p>Another metric, the Supply on Exchanges, illustrated that the token <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/uniswap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a> by 2.67% in the last 24 hours, which the analyst claimed reinforced the notion of traders offloading their UNI holdings amidst declining confidence in Uniswap\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Previous data showed that such trends usually result in a further decline in the token\u2019s price.<\/p>\n<p>Other market observers checked UNI\u2019s technical indicators, revealing a negative sentiment towards Uniswap\u2019s native token.\u00a0 The Bollinger Bands showed that it is tightening with the middle band at $7.470. Meanwhile, the upper and lower bands are at $9.332 and $5.608, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts said that the UNI\u2019s price is on the lower band, indicating a strong bearish momentum, which could explain the drop in unrealized profit for the token.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Medium, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One crypto exchange\u2019s loss is another crypto exchange\u2019s gain. This holds true with cryptocurrency exchange Uniswap after it recorded a weekly loss of over 20% brought by a large investor offloading a huge number of tokens. Uniswap\u2019s loss was Kraken\u2019s gain after the said whale transferred 2.25 million UNI tokens to the cryptocurrency exchange platform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":51949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}