When the dust settled, the trader walked away with an $11.84M gain — proof that sometimes the real game isn’t in the panic or the pumps, but in the quiet months in between.

The market had gone eerily quiet after its recent tumble, the kind of silence that makes traders second-guess every move. And then—like a sudden crack in the stillness—one wallet finally broke ranks.
For more than half a year, 0x90C9bAc6F38bc561B7F13d0f53a21Bd846A0a24C had been sitting on a heavy bag of ETH, watching the storm play out. Today, the patience ended. In just twenty minutes, the holder unloaded 5,299.5 ETH, raking in about $23.6 million at an average of $4,453 each.

But the story started long before today’s sale. Back in February and March, when $ETH was trading around $2,218, three quiet wallets —

0xce5E10161ff1C0Fe49331C10c2871155514AfC87

0x805Be163a17c92F63D5A35f7b8E6572dF7626DA5

0xB7fE98471BE6A2AcD3a7aBe0c940378B341f24df

—were busy stacking, scooping up nearly 9,154 ETH piece by piece. That stash was later funneled into the profit-taking address, setting the stage for today’s exit.