Whale 0x8b9 just spent 2,000 ETH ($5.99M) to buy 2.095M OP at $2.86 via Binance for the first time:

• ETH transaction: 0xae38e36f17751a73d305e31df40714ba8127dbc2f06ee1dc88e127db00cf7652
• OP transaction: 0x5d6f28134eda6d9a112901ac551469aa68cfd1ffcfbd0c6d841997d6722aa2dd
• address: 0x8b947f974618af6b3e63b7a942ef02d505ad8564

Notably, the whale was a smart LINK trader, having realized $5.59M (+47.9%) from 2 LINK trades with a 100% win rate!

Optimism seems to have garnered significant attention recently, especially after the news broke that a16z purchased 19.5M OP tokens (valued at around $90M) from the Optimism Foundation in early March, causing the price of OP to surge from $2.3 to $3 (more details here).

Fig 1. Whale 0x8b9 spent 2,000 ETH ($5.99M) to buy 2.095M OP at $2.86 via Binance for the first time.

Fig 2. Whale 0x8b9's overall LINK trading history.