May 21, 2025

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James Wynn's $1B BTC Long

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    Hyperliquid trader, JamesWynnReal, is now officially the first user to ever hold a position with a notional value larger than $1B on the platform. He started his position on Tuesday with a 40x BTC long position, which quickly grew to a size of 7,764 BTC. In just over 12 hours, he started to close out his position, selling 2,561 BTC to lock in a profit of $4.5M, while continuing to hold the remaining position riding on unrealized profits of more than $8M.

    JamesWynnReal’s PnL

    As BTC broke its all-time high, he continued to add to his position, building up to a trade size of 10,200 BTC. By this point, his position was worth $1.14B with an unrealized profit of $39M. As of this article, he has once again begun to close a portion of his long, but remains in the market with more than $27M in unrealized profit.

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