Cryptocurrency whales, or big investors, are buying hundreds of millions of Ether, as analysts point to an organic rotation of investor mindshare toward altcoins with more upside potential.
Nine “massive” whale addresses bought a cumulative $456 million worth of Ether (ETH) from Bitgo and Galaxy Digital, blockchain data platform Arkham said in a Tuesday X post.
The growing whale demand for the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency signals the market’s “natural rotation” into Ether and other altcoins with more upside potential, according to Nicolai Sondergaard, research analyst at crypto intelligence platform Nansen.
“A lot of this looks like natural rotation, investors locking in profits from Bitcoin’s run and moving into other tokens to catch potential upside,” the analyst told Cointelegraph, adding:
“Ether in particular is benefiting because it has strong current mindshare and momentum from Ether treasury companies.”
While recent Ether whale movements are “notable,” the “broader trend is simply that flows are spreading out beyond Bitcoin as market participants look for the next move,” the analyst said.
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Still, the increasing Bitcoin profit taking may be a precursor to more “investor mindshare” focusing on Ether, Sondergaard added.
Crypto analyst Willy Woo also pointed to the growing capital rotation from Bitcoin (BTC) into Ether.
“Flows into ETH, at 0.9B USD per day (silver), is now approaching BTC’s inflows (orange),” wrote the analyst in a Tuesday X post, adding that the latest streak of inflows “started when Tom Lee’s ETH treasury co, BitMine, started their ETH accumulation.”
These comments came a week after a Bitcoin whale worth more than $11 billion sold $2.59 billion worth of Bitcoin, rotating the funds into a $2.2 billion spot Ether and a $577 million Ether perpetual long position on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid, Cointelegraph reported.
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