TREE NEWS reports: Garrett Jin withdrew 202,080 ZEC from Binance in two transfers on December 24, worth about $88.3 million at the time, and still holds the full position, now valued at roughly $320 million at $1,580 per ZEC. His 38,000 ZEC short on Hyperliquid, worth $60 million, shows an unrealized loss of $34.5 million and can be seen as a partial hedge against the spot holdings.
Garrett Jin holds $320M in spot ZEC, $60M short may be partial hedge
The scale of the spot position relative to the short matters more than the short's headline loss: a hedge covering only a fraction of the holdings leaves most of the exposure unhedged, which suggests conviction rather than risk management. This kind of concentrated, publicly visible whale positioning on a privacy coin draws scrutiny to how large holders use derivatives to manage or obscure directional bets. Whether the short is genuinely a hedge or a separate wager is the open question, and how the position is managed from here is worth watching.
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