Wanye kest
Paid 930 ETH for sixteen CryptoPunks, then topped Hyperliquid with under a thousand followers.
- Est. PnL
- ~$30M
- Location
- UAE or France
- X signup
- Was the most profitable public trader on Hyperliquid in the last three months of 2025, up $13.68M, with fewer than a thousand followers on X
- Bought sixteen CryptoPunks in one auction for $2.4M
- Still complaining that $3.7B of lifetime volume has not earned him VIP status on Hyperliquid
- Lost $6M in a day in October 2025, asked for donations, then wrote that Hyperliquid had taken his house and quit what he called a gambling bazaar
- Currently sits on a $32.6M book, with $8.3M of HYPE staked, $6.8M in USDC, ETH lent on Aave and 30 perp positions open on Hyperliquid
Notable trades
HYPE
Oct 2025–Jan 2026
$13.68M
Ranked first among public Hyperliquid traders for the last three months of 2025, with $13.68M of profit across two wallets, ahead of Laurent Zeimes, CBB, Nexus and CL. The gains came from large positions held over weeks, not one print.
HYPE
Jan 2026
+$2M in a day
Up more than $2M in 24 hours on combined spot and perps. The book was mostly ETH; the day came from about $4.5M of HYPE long across spot and perps, unrealized at the time.
PUNKS
Jun 2025
~$2.4M paid
Won the PUNKS Comic vault, all 16 CryptoPunks held since 2021, for 930 ETH, about $2.4M or 58 ETH a Punk. He priced one of them, a Punk in a beanie with a cigarette, at no less than 240 ETH, and it was still unsold two months later. His main wallet sold five Punks for about 46 ETH each and holds none today; whether they came from the vault is not public.
Trading style
ETH, staked HYPE and cash underneath, perps on top. The capital sits in ETH lent on Aave, staked HYPE and a large USDC balance. Directional risk goes on through Hyperliquid perps, often dozens of positions at once, sized up to 1M+ on alts and held for weeks or months rather than traded in and out.
He farms protocols at size and keeps a strategy running once the setup work is done, even when the return per hour is low. After a run of losses his rule is a hard stop: margin closed, the balance parked in spot BTC.
Quotes
“sometimes u find a strategy and the returns aint much per hour of work but you have already done the heavy lifting so you still go ahead with the strategy”
“Five years have gone by since entering the 'crypto currency market' (if you can call a gambling bazaar a market).”
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