Crypto Whales Accumulate ETH and BTC Holdings

Major cryptocurrency holders, known as whales, have ramped up accumulation of Ethereum and Bitcoin in recent days, signaling confidence in the assets' long-term potential despite fluctuations in retail investor interest. On-chain data from late December 2025 shows large Ethereum wallets adding hundreds of thousands of tokens, while similar withdrawals of Bitcoin from exchanges point to reduced selling pressure across the market.

Ethereum has seen particularly aggressive buying from big players. Wallets holding between 10,000 and 100,000 ETH increased their combined balances to over 21 million tokens throughout 2025, up from 14 million earlier in the year. Retail investors, by contrast, trimmed their holdings from 11 million ETH to 8.3 million over the same period. Exchange reserves for Ethereum dropped by more than 4 million tokens this year, limiting available supply for trading. In the past week alone, whales added about 120,000 ETH, worth roughly 350 million at current prices, according to analytics from CryptoQuant and other trackers. One notable example involved a wallet linked to Trend Research purchasing 11,520 ETH for 34.93 million, bringing its total position to...