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Massive staked Ethereum withdrawals by whales allow arbitrageurs to profit – Crypto News

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Lido (LDO) staked Ethereum (stETH) traded at a discount to Ethereum (eth) on Curve after a whale removed 84,131 ETH ($101 million) from the protocol, allowing arbitrageurs to profit from the situation.

Peckshield also reported that a whale withdrew 42,400 stETH from Aave.

Lookonchain reported that an MEV bot arbitrated 104 ETH ($124,800) from this situation. According to the on-chain analytics, the bot transactions took this format:

“MEV Bot uses flash loan to obtain 8,000 WETH from 0x2718. His exchange path is 8,000 ETH → 8,272 stETH → 7,537 wstETH → 8,104 WETH.”

Another trader, Mandalacapital.eth, has longed stETH on Aave with a plan to take profit after stETH/ETH returns to peg. The trader deposited 4,513.70 stETH on Aave to borrow 3,193 ETH. He then exchanged the borrowed ETH for 3,258.46 stETH and borrowed again to increase the long leverage.

In another case, an address exchanged 2000 ETH for 2,053.48 stETH at a rate of 0.974. This means that they can later redeem it for ETH. That would mean a profit of 53.4 ETH.

Following Terra’s implosion in May, stETH/ETH depeg caused massive market volatility and liquidity issues that affected bankrupt crypto companies like Celsius and Three Arrows Capital.

According to CryptoSlate data, ETH is currently up by 2.8% and trading at $1,196, while stETH is up by 2.4% and worth $1,172. The stETH-ETH peg is at 0.9817.

Wrapped Bitcoin

Tradingview data shows that Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) has depegged for over a week. According to the graph below, WBTC lost its parity with Bitcoin (BTC) on Nov. 13, when it fell to 0.9990.

Wrapped Bitcoin
Source: Tradingview

Since then, the chasm has widened and fallen to 0.9774. Wrapped Bitcoin is an ERC-20 token. It is a 1:1 representation of BTC on the Ethereum blockchain network.

The depeg places 235,000 WBTC at risk as arbitrageurs could take advantage of the situation.

Meanwhile, Glassnode data shows that WBTC supply has decreased by 50,000 since May 2022 when the industry was reeling from Terra LUNA’s crash.

Wrapped Bitcoin Supply
Source: Glassnode

WBTC is trading for $16,573, while BTC is exchanging hands for $16,634, according to CryptoSlate data.

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