PEPE Plunges 29% as ETH Whale Misses Out on $3.5M Gains

An on-chain sob story: after months of accumulation, this whale offloads 519B PEPE at an inopportune moment.

Pepe the frog crying in a pond.
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  • Ethereum crypto player suffers $3.5M in unrealized profit due to wrong timing.
  • PEPE Coin is midway to fully retracing the all-time peak in late May 2024.
  • Mondayโ€™s crypto breakdown hits PEPE, but a rebound has not yet been crossed out.

A major Ethereum (ETH) player has set an example of how playing with meme coins can turn a potentially huge profit into a tremendous deficit. Spotted by the cryptocurrency whale tracker SpotOnChain, one individual deposited 519B Pepe Coins (PEPE).

Massive PEPE Coin Sell-Off Goes Wrong

These digital assets, worth $5.11 million at stamped transaction time, were deposited to Binance at 2 AM on July 7, 2024.

If the Ethereum whale in question had decided to unload its 519B PEPE coins onto the market by the end of May above the $0.000015 support cluster, the high-rolling trader would have made $3.47M in realized profit, according to SpotOnChainโ€™s estimations.

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Upon further investigation by DailyCoin, it was established that the whale suffered a realized PNL of -10.34 million as of July 8, 2024. Aside from PEPE accumulated during May, the only other meme asset in the whaleโ€™s account is WOJAK, another Ethereum meme token.

Crypto Bloodbath Splashes on PEPE

In Mondayโ€™s market-wide drawdown, the crypto bears didn’t spare PEPE. Incurring an 8.5% deficit in a 24-hour period, the frog-themed meme coin is changing hands at $0.000008374. 

PEPE slumped to a five-zero zone since July 4, 2024, and is yet to find the strength to restore its $0.00001 support levels, despite 64% of current holders making a profit at this price range. The coinโ€™s Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) index kept above 0.2, hinting at refreshed cash streams in large transactions.

Among the TOP 5 biggest losers this Monday, PEPE stood out as the quickest rebounder. To illustrate, the token slumped by $500 million in global market capitalization at 2:30 AM GMT but later recouped the intra-day setback to $3,843,602,991 as of press time.

With the Relative Strength Index (RSI) at a neutral position, PEPEโ€™s bounce northward highly depends on trading volume and large holder interest in the digital meme asset.

On the Flipside

  • On Monday, PEPE Coin amassed the highest trading volume among meme coins, currently at $1,265 410,359 on Spot markets. 
  • However, the market sentiment remains on the bearish side, with 24-hour executed sales outweighing PEPE bids by $200K.

Why This Matters

Success in crypto trading often relies on timing, as meme coins experience more sensitive and quicker price fluctuations than regular alternatives.

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Tadas Klimasevskis

Tadas Klimaลกevskis is a DailyCoin Journalist, covering memecoins & latest developments. Tadas has moderate holdings in SHIB, HBAR, LTC, MATIC and a selection of low-cap meme currencies.

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