Multiple High-Leverage Liquidation Whales Recently Suffer Losses, with James Wynn and AguilaTrades Both Losing Tens of Millions of Dollars

By: theblockbeats.news|2025/08/15 09:42:08
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BlockBeats News, August 15th, according to EmberCN’s statistics, following the contract trading whale AguilaTrades being liquidated again at 2 a.m. with only $30,000 left, several highly leveraged liquidation whales, who are widely followed by the market and have a similar trading style, all faced losses, including:

Whale James Wynn, who saw a peak profit of $87 million at the end of May, not only gave back all the profits but also lost $21.77 million of the principal. At the peak by the end of May, he opened a $1.23 billion worth of BTC long position on Hyperliquid.

Insider whale qwatio used a $3 million principal to make a maximum profit of $26 million, but eventually got liquidated in one go.

Contract trading whale AguilaTrades ended up with a loss of $37.6 million.

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