A crypto whale managed to turn $500,000 into $13 million in about 3.6 years. According to Lookonchain, an on-chain tracking platform, the whale started trading in 2020.
The investor, who bought LEND on May 6, 2020 with $500,000 USDC, later converted these tokens into AAVE. The investor, who has held his AAVEs since then, sold them years later.
Today, the whale sold 30,000 AAVEs through Cumberland for $3 million. The whale still has 100,000 AAVEs worth about $10 million.
If the whale sells these tokens, it will turn its $500,000 into $13 million in about 3.5 years, for a total gain of 25 fold. If the uptrend in cryptocurrencies continues, this gain could be much higher.
After May 2020, when the whale purchased, there was a period known today as the “DeFi summer” in the summer months, and many DeFi tokens such as AAVE, Compound, SNX, UNI experienced huge rallies.