The previous CEO of crypto change BITMEX, Arthur Hayes, has added extra HYPE tokens to his portfolio after a 3-month hiatus. On-chain information revealed that the crypto investor bought 19,227 HYPE on Wednesday, value round $499,000.
Hayes had bought all his HYPE tokens in September, roughly 96,628 HYPE tokens ($5.1 million), which he had bought a month earlier than. On-chain information revealed that the entrepreneur made a 19.2% revenue, about $823,000, from the sale of the tokens.
Hayes data earnings in his 2025 crypto investments
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On the time, Hayes revealed that he had offloaded the digital belongings to buy a brand new Ferrari. The Maelstrom official induced some backlash from merchants who accused him of pumping HYPE a month earlier than exiting.
Hayes later refuted the claims, revealing that the sale was linked to issues introduced by his agency. The seasoned market analyst had predicted on the WebX Summit on August 25 that HYPE would surge 126x by 2028. He additionally referred to Hyperliquid as a decentralized Binance, arguing that it may seize a Binance-level buying and selling share.
Hayes revealed that he had a constructive buying and selling efficiency final 12 months, together with his liquid directional ebook up by year-end. He said that his objective is to cowl his bills together with his buying and selling earnings, which he stated he has completed a number of occasions in 2025.
Though Hayes was worthwhile, he acknowledged that he made a couple of dangerous trades. He revealed that his greatest loss was buying and selling PUMP instantly after the token launched.
Hayes plans to keep away from memecoins this 12 months, arguing that he solely made cash buying and selling TRUMP. He revealed that he solely profited from buying and selling HYPE, BTC, PENDLE, and ETHFI.
The investor reported that 33% of his trades have been worthwhile, with a median 8.5 occasions revenue from successful trades in comparison with shedding trades. Hayes is assured that he’ll enhance this 12 months by specializing in his strengths and taking massive, medium-term positions based mostly on a transparent macro liquidity thesis that helps his narrative.
Maelstrom begins 2026 with nearly most threat publicity
Hayes stated final week that Maelstrom has begun this 12 months with most threat publicity. He revealed that the funding fund will lengthen its aggressive stance adopted within the second half of 2025.
The entrepreneur additionally confirmed that the fund stays deep in threat belongings. Hayes acknowledged that Maelstrom will primarily concentrate on privateness cash, comparable to Zcash, and rising decentralized finance digital belongings, that are presently main the portfolio.
Hayes maintained that this 12 months’s focus shall be on privateness tokens. He believes that ZEC will turn out to be the privateness beta, acknowledging that he has already taken lengthy positions within the digital asset, which he entered at good costs in Q3 of 2025.
“Maelstrom entered 2026 with nearly most threat, whereas we’ll proceed to speculate spare money generated from numerous financing trades into Bitcoin, our greenback stables place may be very low.”
–Arthur Hayes, Co-founder of BITMEX.
Maelstrom’s 2026 stance deviates from its public positioning early final 12 months, when Hayes predicted that BTC would plummet to $70,000. He argued on the time that the drop can be attributable to a monetary disaster earlier than quantitative easing resumed.
Maelstrom lowered its threat in late January 2025, however started including threat and going lengthy when it comes to outright crypto publicity in April. Hayes stated in December that the fund was busy loading up as charge cuts and Fed reserve growth kicked in.
Hayes is betting that crypto costs will push greater this 12 months, pushed by surging nominal GDP, U.S. deficit spending, and what he believes shall be an inevitable cash printing by the Federal Reserve. He additionally argued that geopolitical tensions attributable to the U.S. intervention in Venezuela will help digital belongings. The crypto investor believes that the U.S. will stimulate the financial system with credit score in an effort to maintain oil costs in examine.
