MAJOR Altcoin Whale Activity Today

Our newly renovated Top Transactions model is indicating that there have been a flurry of big whale transactions that are among the 10 highest seen for respective altcoins over the past 3 months.

These black bars on our model indicate the USD amount that was transferred, based on the coins' current prices when they were moved. And there are quite a few massive numbers to comb through.

Among these altcoins that have the seen the highest activity are:

• Apecoin ($APE): $27.9M transaction (TOP largest in the past 3 months) - (exchange to exchange address)
• Aave ($AAVE): $21.4M transaction (3rd largest in the past 3 months) - (exchange to exchange address)
• Lido Dao ($LDO) $15.6M transaction (7th largest in the past 3 months) - (non-exchange to non-exchange address)

Let's take a look at their volumes and exchange supply really quickly:

Apecoin's big transaction coincided with the largest daily trading volume spike in six weeks. We can also see that the supply on exchange had a notable uptick, implying that there have been some coins returning to exchanges perhaps after the exchange to exchange $27.9M transfer. This is a bit concerning.

Aave's $21.4M transaction did seem to have an impact on transaction volume, as today marks a 5-week high for that metric. However, supply on exchanges has actually moved down with the big transfer. So that's a good sign.

Lido Dao's $15.6M transaction came after there was already a big 4-week high in on-chain transaction volume yesterday. Thankfully, supply on exchanges has only moved up modestly the past couple days. So this is a pretty neutral signal.

Other notable altcoins with top transactions that were at least $4M or more in value today include:

• 1inch (exchange to exchange address)
• Adventure Gold (exchange to exchange address)
• Alchemix (exchange to exchange address)
• Ankr (exchange to exchange address)
• Aragon (exchange to exchange address)
• Arpa Chain (exchange to exchange address)
• Audius (exchange to exchange address)
• Automata (exchange to exchange address)
• Axie Infinity (exchange to exchange address)
• Barnbridge (exchange to exchange address)
• Bella Protocol (exchange to exchange address)
• Biconomy (exchange to exchange address)
• Chiliz (non-exchange to non-exchange address)
• Coin98 (exchange to exchange address)
• Compound (exchange to exchange address)
• Project Galaxy (exchange to exchange address)
• Rocketpool (non-exchange to non-exchange address)

If you notice the above lists, the majority of these assets occur at the top of the alphabet. Perhaps it's all just a coincidence, but perhaps some large whales running algorithms decided to sell off just the first 8th (chronologically) of the altcoins they were running.

This is, of course, just a wild theory. But regardless, we should be on alert when so many altcoins are suddenly having major transfers on their network that are mainly exchange address to exchange address.

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