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James Fickel is the founder of the Amaranth Foundation, funding longevity research, and the world’s fifth richest known crypto investor. Fickle has partially closed a multi-millionaire long Ethereum (ETH) position against Bitcoin (BTC) on August 10 as BTC overperformed ETH.
According to a Lookonchain report, the Amaranth Foundation’s founder started opening long positions on Ethereum against Bitcoin on January 10. These positions used an advanced decentralized finance (DeFi) strategy of lending, borrowing, and trading one asset against the other.
Essentially, James Fickel provided lending liquidity on Aave (AAVE) to use as collateral to borrow 3,061 Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC). He then used this $172 million wBTC loan to swap for 56,445 ETH in these seven months since January. Lookonchain calculates an average ETH/BTC exchange rate of 0.05424.
However, Fickel’s known address ‘0xd85351181b3F264ee0FDFa94518464d7c3DefaDa’ just exchanged 10,000 ETH for 426 wBTC, worth $25.9 million at 0.04258. Therefore, the crypto investor partially closed his position with 21% losses plus the wBTC interest rate paid to Aave lenders.
Who is James Fickel? Crypto investor and longevity researcher
According to Arkham’s research from April 2024, James Fickel was the world’s fifth-richest cryptocurrency investor, worth over $446 million. Notably, Finbold retrieved data from Arkham Intelligence on August 11 showing the investor’s crypto net worth already increased by $10 million since then, at $457.39 million
The majority of his portfolio consists of 133,516 AETHWSTETH ($420 million) and 10,601 AETHWETH ($28.49 million). We can also see wETH, ETH, USDC, Optimism (OP), and other cryptocurrencies representing smaller shares of Fickel’s holdings.
Besides being an active cryptocurrency investor and Ethereum enthusiast, James Fickel is the founder of the Amaranth Foundation. Interestingly, his foundation conducts and funds leading research on longevity and neuroscience, studying aging solutions.
As seen in his trades, James Fickel has shown a strong investment conviction that ETH will overperform BTC in 2024. Nevertheless, given the most recent trading activity, the market now wonders if this conviction remains as strong as before.
