Crypto leverage trader James Wynn loses $25M on Bitcoin bet

The millionaire leveraged crypto trader James Wynn has been liquidated of astir $25 cardinal successful Bitcoin aft betting with leverage that the cryptocurrency’s terms would rise.

Wynn was liquidated for 240 Bitcoin (BTC) and had “manually closed portion of his presumption to little the liquidation price,” onchain analytics level Lookonchain posted to X connected June 4.

Lookonchain added that Wynn inactive held 770 Bitcoin worthy astir $80.5 cardinal astatine a liquidation terms of $104,035.

Data from Hypurrscan shows that the trader is presently sitting connected an unrealized nonaccomplishment of astir $1 cardinal connected his 40x Bitcoin agelong position.

After the liquidation, Wynn posted to X, alleging that the marketplace was being manipulated against him. He has separately requested donations to “support his cause” of exposing marketplace manipulation.

Wynn roseate to prominence aft making a drawstring of large, high-leverage bets connected Bitcoin done the trading level Hyperliquid, wherever the accusation connected Wynn’s presumption is public.

He initiated a $1.25 cardinal stake connected May 24, going agelong connected Bitcoin with 40x leverage aft suffering a nonaccomplishment of $29 cardinal conscionable a time before.

A time later, Wynn had closed his agelong position and had alternatively opened a $110 cardinal abbreviated presumption connected the cryptocurrency.

On May 29, Lookonchain and Arkham Intelligence said that Wynn had suffered a nonaccomplishment of $100 million implicit the people of the week.

Unfazed by caller losses and wanting to marque $1 billion, Wynn went connected to initiate a second $100 cardinal leveraged agelong presumption connected Bitcoin earlier this week.

Dark excavation DEXs

After Wynn’s $100 cardinal liquidation, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao projected creating a acheronian excavation perpetual swap decentralized exchange, which helium said could combat marketplace manipulation.

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Zhao said that owed to the transparency of DEXs, radical tin spot orders successful real-time, which tin pb to front-running, slippages and different issues and that the contented is much terrible connected perpetual DEXs owed to liquidations.

While the conception of acheronian pools is caller to crypto successful accepted finance, this diagnostic has existed for galore decades.

Dark pools supply liquidity and anonymity to organization investors portion keeping their trades backstage from retail investors. Dark pools tin beryllium cost-effective, however, they tin besides pb to conflicts of involvement issues owed to their deficiency of transparency.

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