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By Sam Reynolds|Edited by Parikshit Mishra
Jul 7, 2025, 5:58 a.m.
- A Hyperliquid trader named Qwatio was liquidated five times over the weekend, losing nearly $3.7 million with aggressive BTC and ETH shorts.
- Qwatio’s account plummeted from $16.28 million to $610,000, marking a total loss of $15.67 million.
- The trader previously gained attention for making 50x leveraged BTC and ETH bets worth $200 million before a major market catalyst.
One ultra-leveraged Hyperliquid trader has been liquidated five times over the weekend and has lost nearly $3.7 million in the past week with aggressive bitcoin
and ether
shorts, according to on-chain data.
STORY CONTINUES BELOW
Qwatio, a heavily leveraged Hyperliquid trader in the style of James Wynn, has been opening short positions on BTC and ETH when the tokens are at sessional lows.
This move is a flip from his strategy earlier this year when he traded BTC and ETH via aggressive longs.
Qwatio first got on the radar of Crypto Twitter when they opened a 50x leveraged BTC and ETH bets worth $200 million in the hours before U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a crypto reserve – which was a broad bullish catalyst for the market.
They also were a major holder of the Melania memecoin during its initial launch earlier this year.
Overall in the last 24 hours there has been $50 million of ETH and $31 million in BTC short and liquidated across the market, according to CoinGlass data.
Read more: James Wynn, the Trader Who Bet $1B on Bitcoin, Is Now Long Pepe
Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX’s collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.
