Crypto Trader Who Bet $1B on Bitcoin Returns With 3x Leveraged Long on ASTER

James Wynn, the pseudonymous dealer behind a billion-dollar BTC$109,541.35 wager earlier this yr, is again. This time, Wynn is making a leveraged play on ASTER simply days after being liquidated on the identical token.

Wynn has opened a new 3x leveraged lengthy on ASTER, the native token of the rising Aster perpetuals trade, value over $16,000, getting into at $1.97 with a liquidation degree round $1.57.The transfer was first noticed by Onchain Lens.

While the greenback quantity appears small in comparison with Wynn’s earlier positions, the commerce is prone to be a hedge on a unique place on Aster itself. “I’m farming the $ASTER airdrop,” the trader wrote on X. “I believe it will be one of the biggest [in] crypto history.”

The move is Wynn’s latest high-risk bet on Hyperliquid, an onchain derivatives platform where he previously took out a $1.2 billion long on bitcoin using 40x leverage.

That position closed with a $17.5 million loss, before he flipped into a billion-dollar short. At one point, he had his entire $50 million wallet on the line.

That wild streak ended with Wynn saying he was walking away “a wynner” after netting $25 million in profit.

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