Monkey-Selling Lifeline Finally Turns Fortunes: Machi Big Brother Turns $150k Into $12.72 Million In Three Days
Machi Big Brother, a prominent crypto whale, has staged a dramatic comeback. After ten months of significant losses, he turned a $150,000 capital into $12.72 million in just three days during last week's market rally. This 84x gain was achieved through aggressive "rolling" strategies on the Hyperliquid platform, where unrealized profits are continuously used as collateral to increase leveraged long positions. His current portfolio holds $100.7 million in assets backing $123.72 million in open long positions, primarily in ETH, with an overall leverage of approximately 13.1x. However, this massive position is highly precarious; a roughly 10% drop in ETH's price to $2,229 would trigger automatic liquidation, wiping out his recent profits. His trading history is marked by high leverage, frequent liquidations, and poor risk management, having been liquidated 71 times in a single month in 2025. To fund these risky trades and meet margin calls in recent months, he has been selling his NFT holdings, including Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) assets, at substantial losses—a move the community dubbed "selling monkeys to stay alive." Despite the recent windfall, his cumulative losses remain high, and his high-risk strategy leaves him vulnerable to sudden market reversals.
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