Gate News message, April 17 — Following Lido’s launch of its LDO buyback program, a whale or institution acquired 4.5 million LDO tokens, valued at approximately $1.86 million, through OTC transactions, according to on-chain analyst Ember Chen. The entity also purchased 10,000 AAVE tokens, worth approximately $1.15 million, in the same period.
The LDO tokens originated from Wintermute and the AAVE tokens from FalconX, both major market makers and trading service providers.
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