A mysterious Shiba Inu (SHIB) dealer pocketed hundreds of thousands of {dollars} within the wake of the USD Coin (USDC) depegging, based on on-chain information.
Blockchain monitoring agency Lookonchain says that because the USDC stablecoin misplaced its peg to the US greenback over the weekend, an unknown crypto dealer made a revenue of $4.14 million in about 48 hours.
In keeping with Lookonchain, the mysterious dealer spent 67.58 million USDC to accumulate 47,670 Ethereum (ETH) on March tenth. ETH was buying and selling at $1,418 on the time.
About two days later, the mysterious dealer transformed 47,668 ETH to stablecoin Tether (USDT) price roughly $71.72 million. Lookonchain says the unknown dealer pocketed a return on funding of 6%.
“We discovered that 15 addresses (might belong to the identical individual) purchased 47,670 ETH with 67.58 million USDC at $1,418 on March tenth.
Then offered 47,668 ETH at $1,505 for 71.72 million USDT 10 hours in the past [March 12th].
Made roughly $4.14 million in two days, the return on funding is 6%.”
On why the 15 accountable addresses presumably belong to 1 particular person or entity, Lookonchain says,
“In keeping with the on-chain information, we discovered that these 15 addresses might belong to the identical individual, as a result of they acquired a considerable amount of SHIB from the identical handle ‘0x7617’ on April twenty first, 2021.
Handle ‘0x7617’ began buying and selling SHIB very early, and acquired roughly 5.5 trillion SHIB earlier than the worth of SHIB rose sharply in Might 2021 with a price of solely roughly 180 ETH ($400,000).
Then handle ‘0x7617’ offered all SHIB for greater than 35,000 ETH in Might and October 2021 by means of 34 addresses.”
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