Crypto Whales Move Over $65M In 3 Altcoin Transactions As Bitcoin Crosses $30K

On Wednesday, a data analytics platform identified a series of big whale transactions, indicating some of the highest activity seen for altcoins in the past three months.

What Happened: According to Santiment, "It isn’t just Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holders who are polarizing now that $30k has been crossed."

A whale moved $27.9 million worth of Apecoin (CRYPTO: APE) making it the biggest altcoin move from exchange to exchange, in the last three months.

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Aave (CRYPTO: AAVE) ranked third among the altcoins with a whale transferring $21.4 million. This was an exchange-to-exchange move as well, whereas Lido Dao (CRYPTO: LDO) stood in seventh place with a transaction of $15.6 million between non-exchange to non-exchange addresses.

The combined whale activity of the three altcoins comes to $64.9 million.

Price Action: At the time of writing,  BTC was trading at $30,106.61, up 0.52% in the last 24 hours, according to Benzinga Pro.

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