The largest Ethereum whales have purchased around 110,000 LUNA tokens, according to data provided by whale watching platform WhaleStats. With this development, Terra (LUNA) has returned to the top 10 cryptocurrencies bought by whales in the last 24 hours.
LUNA ranks #4 on the whales menu
WhaleStats shared the list of altcoin projects on the menu of the 500 largest Ethereum whales on their Twitter account. According to the whale watching platform’s data, stablecoins USD Coin (USDC) and Tether (USDT) took the top two places, while Terra’s LUNA ranked 4th after Ethereum.
Other assets mostly purchased by this whale category, according to WhaleStats data Among them are the meme coin Shiba Inu (SHIB) and the metaverse coin ApeCoin (APE). Other altcoin projects on the whales menu are: ApeCoin (APE), Hex (HEX), Shiba Inu (SHIB), Maker (MKR), Phantom (FTM), Enjin Coin (ENJ).
According to experts, the price of LUNA has remained at a pretty good level this year despite the push of most cryptocurrencies. Terra’s LUNA and its algorithmic stablecoin UST have managed to rank among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap.
Whale ‘bonobo’ now also has Terra’s LUNA in his wallet
In addition to being one of the most purchased assets according to WhaleStats, as we reported on Kriptokoin.com, the ‘bonobo’ An ETH whale named ETH has purchased around 110,000 LUNA tokens in two separate transactions.
First transaction, buy 55,035 LUNA ($4,703,291) While the second transaction was reported at the same time as the first, it represented the purchase of 55,000 LUNA, (worth $4,700,300).
A glance at the whale’s assets reveals that he mostly bets on 22,587,360 FTX Tokens (FTT) worth $879,138,240. The whale also owns 19 billion (19,091,000,000) SHIB worth $424,127.
Whale’s assets include several crypto assets in large quantities, including a massive 14,374,323 Fantom (FTM) holdings worth $11,396,315. However, the LUNA balance held by the whale only reflects the initial purchase.