Author: Bitpush Editorial Department
Over the past month, Bitcoin has mostly fluctuated wildly around $80,000 to $90,000, while altcoins have generally corrected by 15% to 40%. This has provided a comfortable window for whales to "privately increase their positions." According to real-time monitoring data of large on-chain investors tracked by Santiment and others, whales are quietly building positions in the following sectors, with some coins even reaching new highs for accumulation since 2025.
With the SEC's settlement with Ripple finalized, the XRP ETF has moved from expectation to reality, further stimulating whale accumulation. Over the past 30 days, XRP has seen the most significant net inflows of whales among all altcoins.
Cardano (ADA) experienced an extremely rare "whale rotation buying" pattern over the 12 days from November 24th to December 4th:
UNI: Over the past week, whales added approximately 800,000 UNI tokens (worth nearly $5 million USD). After the fee switch vote was passed, the top 100 addresses hold a total of 8.98 million UNI tokens, demonstrating a strong accumulation momentum, while the supply on exchanges continues to decrease.
AAVE: In the past 30 days, whales have added more than 50,000 ATH tokens to their holdings, bringing their total holdings to 3.98 million ATH tokens.
The commonalities between the two are: TVL continues to recover and real revenue (expenses) begins to rise, indicating that whales have made early moves.
Main battlefield:
FARTCOIN: A single address snapped up 32.43 million tokens ($10.7 million) in 24 hours.
PIPPIN: 40.45 million tokens ($7.28 million) were stolen by whales in 24 hours.
PEPE: Over the past 30 days, whale holdings have increased by 1.36%, accumulating to over 10 million tokens. In short, both speculative and established funds are entering the market, and a violent surge could occur at any time after liquidity dries up.
ENA (Ethena): Whale holdings increased by 2.84% in the past 7 days, with the top 100 addresses adding over 50 million tokens.
TIA (Celestia): Exchange supply decreased by 5%, staking ratio and TVL both hit record highs.
The combination of AI-driven narrative and modular narrative has become one of the most promising long-term tracks in this round.
Starting in late November, large amounts of money were transferred out of exchanges from both FIL and ICP whale addresses. The number of active addresses and TVL rebounded in tandem, indicating that the demand for decentralized storage from AI big data models is being realized.
FIL: Over the past 30 days, whales have increased their holdings by more than 100,000 FIL tokens, totaling approximately $50 million; exchange supply has decreased by 15%.
ICP: On-chain active addresses increased by 30%, whales transferred over 50,000 coins from exchanges; TVL rebounded to $120 million.
It can be seen that the whale's current operating logic is as follows:
Pullbacks are buying opportunities; buy more as prices fall, and pay almost no attention to short-term prices.
Prioritize sectors with "real income" or "certainty of policy benefits";
Meme coin remains a high-risk, high-reward "lottery zone";
Giant Whale has already positioned itself in the long-term development track (AI, modularity, storage, privacy) 2-3 quarters in advance.
Risk Warning: Whale entry does not guarantee a price increase; it may also create subsequent selling pressure. Please trade only on DYOR, follow trades cautiously, and strictly control your position size.

