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According to Reuters, several hours before the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement was announced, investors sold 8,600 contracts of Brent and WTI crude oil futures at 19:45 GMT on Tuesday, placing short bets totaling approximately $950 million. Later that evening at 22:30 GMT, U.S. President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran, prompting crude oil futures prices to plunge roughly 15%, falling below $100 per barrel. Notably, such large-scale trades are typically distributed across multiple exchanges to avoid price impact; however, this single, concentrated trade executed after settlement was highly unusual. This pattern mirrors a similar operation on March 23, when investors dumped approximately $500 million worth of crude oil futures just 15 minutes before Trump announced the postponement of strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure—after which oil prices also plunged 15%.
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), yesterday’s Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $13.84 million. The breakdown by issuer is as follows: BlackRock’s staked ETHB saw a net inflow of $44.3 million; 21Shares’ TETH recorded a net inflow of $1.98 million; BlackRock’s ETHA experienced a net outflow of $20.67 million; Grayscale’s ETHE posted a net outflow of $6.11 million; Grayscale’s Mini ETH had a net outflow of $5.66 million; Fidelity’s FETH, Bitwise’s ETHW, Invesco’s QETH, Franklin’s EZET, and VanEck’s ETHV all registered zero net flow for the day.
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), yesterday’s Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a net outflow of $124 million. The breakdown by issuer is as follows: BlackRock’s IBIT recorded a net inflow of $40.67 million; Fidelity’s FBTC saw a net outflow of $79.12 million; Ark’s ARKB experienced a net outflow of $74.7 million; Grayscale’s GBTC had a net outflow of $11.1 million; Bitwise’s BITB, Invesco’s BTCO, Franklin’s EZBC, Valkyrie’s BRRR, VanEck’s HODL, WisdomTree’s BTCW, and Grayscale’s mini BTC all registered zero net flow for the day.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), over the past four hours, four wallet addresses linked to the same entity collectively opened $33.3 million in long positions in the FARTCOIN market, all of which were subsequently liquidated, resulting in a total loss of $3.02 million.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), a whale previously opened a long position of 325.88 BTC (approximately $23.22 million) with 30x leverage, with a liquidation price of $70,092.20. Subsequently, this address closed its long position at a loss and quickly reversed to open a short position of 288.69 BTC (approximately $20.4 million). It currently holds an unrealized profit of $209,000, with the current short position’s liquidation price at $72,782.34.
According to CoinDesk, Morgan Stanley’s spot Bitcoin ETF, the “Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust,” saw active trading on its first day, with over 1.6 million shares traded and approximately $34 million in net inflows. Coinbase serves as the cold-storage custodian for the fund, while BNY Mellon handles cash management, administrative, and transfer functions. The fund’s expense ratio is 0.14%.
According to on-chain analyst Yujin (@EmberCN), of the 5,000 ETH planned for sale by the Ethereum Foundation, 3,750 ETH have already been sold, generating approximately $8.3 million in proceeds at an average sale price of $2,214 per ETH.