{"id":694424,"date":"2025-10-12T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/investigation-ties-100000-btc-hyperliquid-whale-to-former-bitforex-ceo\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:45:11","slug":"investigation-ties-100000-btc-hyperliquid-whale-to-former-bitforex-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/investigation-ties-100000-btc-hyperliquid-whale-to-former-bitforex-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation ties 100,000 BTC Hyperliquid whale to former BitForex CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMTAvMDE5OWNjN2QtOGRkYS03ZTk5LWI2NmYtYjJiYWQyMzJiZjAx.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>An investigation has tied the Hyperliquid whale controlling over 100,000 BTC to Garrett Jin, the ex-BitForex CEO whose exchange collapsed amid fraud probes.<\/p>\n<p><p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">An onchain investigation by crypto researcher Eye has linked the mysterious Hyperliquid whale, who controls over 100,000 BTC, to Garrett Jin, the former CEO of BitForex, a now-defunct exchange embroiled in a fraud scandal.<\/p>\n<p>In a Saturday <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/eyeonchains\/status\/1977071983172231507\" title=\"null\">post<\/a> on X, the onchain sleuth noted that the whale\u2019s main wallet, ereignis.eth, was connected to another ENS name, garrettjin.eth, which directly leads to Jin\u2019s verified X (<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>) account, @GarrettBullish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ENS name ereignis.eth (\u201cevent\u201d in German) confirms his link to this wallet, identifying him as the actor behind the large-scale operations on Hyperliquid\/Hyperunit,\u201d Eye wrote on X. <\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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An onchain investigation by crypto researcher Eye has linked the mysterious Hyperliquid whale, who controls over 100,000 BTC, to Garrett Jin, the former CEO of BitForex, a now-defunct exchange embroiled in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-10\/0199cc7d-8dda-7e99-b66f-b2bad232bf01","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75014,74894,74863,74860,71006,70934,71101],"class_list":["post-694424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-binance","tag-blockchain","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-cryptocurrency-exchange","tag-fraud","tag-regulation","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}