The infamous Hyperliquid whale that crypto Twitter has been all but obsessed with over the last month has been unmasked by onchain sleuth ZachXBT as a serial scammer and online gambler known as William Parker. Parker executed trades across multiple accounts, the first of which was a massive Bitcoin long position he put on the night before U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to officially create a crypto strategic reserve. Social media quickly painted him as an insider who was close to the White House. He made waves again last weekend after opening and increasing a 40x leveraged short BTC position that grew as large as $500 million by March 17, inspiring traders on crypto Twitter to band together in an attempt to liquidate him. To continue reading this as well as other DeFi and Web3 news, visit us at thedefiant.io