Top 3 SHIB whale acquires almost $3 million worth of Ethereum, while coin’s price spikes to $3,100 zone
While the second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, has added 6.72% today so far, a top whale that holds the majority of its portfolio in ETH, has acquired more Ethereum to add to his reserve.
In the meantime, the number of ETH non-zero wallets has reached a new milestone of 75,154,121, according to a recent Glassnode tweet.
SHIB holding a whale buys $2.29 million in ETH
As reported by an on-chain data service that tracks the top 1,000 whales on various blockchain platforms, WhaleStats, the whale with the name “Light” (ranked third by WhaleStats) has purchased a large amount of Ethereum worth $2,294,175 and added 761 ETH to its Ether stash.
ETH is the largest holding of “Light” and comprises 48.71% of his portfolio ($194,695,552 worth of ETH). The second biggest holding of this investor is Binance chain-based Bitcoin (BTCB), comprising 25% of his portfolio worth $99,942,821.
Shiba Inu is the third largest cryptocurrency here. The share of the second largest cryptocurrency meme constitutes 5.81%, which equals $23,223,612.
Among the other coins held by the whale in more or less large amounts are MATIC, ADA and DOT as well. Earlier today, it was reported that SHIB, ADA, LINK and DOGE are among the top coins owned by the largest BSC whales.
Rise of Ethereum and Bitcoin
Meanwhile, Bitcoin and Ethereum demonstrated an increase within hours today. Bitcoin added 4.24% from $42,599 to $44,405.
The second biggest cryptocurrency, Ether, showed a rise of 6.72%, jumping from $2,919 to $3,109. Both coins printed a long green candle at the start of the rise.
