Bought $22 million worth of altcoins for two months, earned $8 million: Will he sell? - Coin Bulletin

**On-chain analysis platform Lookonchain announced that a whale borrowed 3 million USDT and bought 11,605 AAVE in the last few hours.

According to the report, this whale has purchased a total of 87,098 AAVE since October 13. Approximately 22.88 million dollars were spent for these transactions, and the whale's unrealized profit currently exceeds 8 million dollars. The average price of the purchase transactions was calculated as 167 dollars.

Investment strategy in AAVE

This transaction of Balina is based on one of the common investment strategies in decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Two basic strategies, long position and short position, can be used on platforms like Aave.

A user who wants to take a long position can deposit an asset like ETH, then borrow USDC and use it to buy more ETH. However, if the ETH price falls, this position can be liquidated.

If a user who wants to take a short position, otherwise, can borrow ETH by depositing USDC. If the price of ETH falls, the value of the debt decreases and the user makes a profit. However, if the price of ETH rises, there is a liquidation risk.

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