According to Whale Alert data, an Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) whale has transferred about 100,000 ETH worth about $145.62 million from one anonymous wallet to another.
Whale Alert reports, that the tokens were moved on Sept. 16, one day after Ethereum transitioned to a proof-of-stake network.
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🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 100,000 #ETH (145,624,605 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallethttps://t.co/cihRV6GZKO
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 16, 2022
Recently, the market intelligence firm Santiment mentioned that the leading smart contract platform’s network value to transaction (NVT) metric is in its best state in 16 months.
📊 We are officially less than two days from the big #Ethereum merge, & on-chain metrics are looking positive for the #2 market cap asset. According to our NVT model, the ratio between unique $ETH being moved and the network's current market cap is in its best state in 16 months. pic.twitter.com/dLC8fUdNYS
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) September 13, 2022
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It also mentioned that over the past three months, top whale addresses had sent a significant amount of ETH onto exchanges.
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Non-exchange addresses have declined 11%, while exchange-based addresses have surged by 78%.
Earlier last week, the exchange balance of Ethereum reached 21.96 million, the highest level in five months.
Also, an anonymous cryptocurrency wallet holding $69,500,418 of Ethereum transferred its funds onto Binance in the previous week. Abnormally large cryptocurrency transfers from wallets to exchanges are typically a bearish signal.
At the time of writing, ETH was trading at $1430.91, down almost 19% in the last seven days.