Recently, a former PEPE big shot transformed into a contract whale, frequently opening positions worth hundreds of millions of dollars on Hyperliquid, which has drawn market attention. As one of the few whales with a public identity actively participating in the community on Hyperliquid, James Wynn's daily position changes have become a hot topic among many investors.
What is James Wynn's background, and how does he move the market's nerves through his statements and positions?
The "10U God" Who Rose to Fame with PEPE
According According to James Wynn's self-description Twitter on Twitter, he was born "forgotten small town" in the UK, filled with crime, drugs, alcohol, and stated that he grew up in difficult circumstances, "barely making ends meet" every week.
In 2022, after getting involved in cryptocurrency, James Wynn became a 10U god. He often hovered around several ultra-small-cap memes until he discovered PEPE on iToken. Subsequently, James Wynn chose to heavily invest in PEPE and earned millions of dollars. PANews previously verified this through on-chain data.
From social media information, James Wynn joined Twitter in 2023, and his early content was almost entirely focused on on promoting and advertising PEPE. In April 2023, James Wynn predicted that PEPE token's market value would rise to $4.2 billion when its market value was only $420,000. A year later, this prediction not only came true but even exceeded his expectations. In October 2024, Pe's peaked at over $10 billion, becoming one of the highest market cap mmemes.
Of course, during this process, as one of PEPE's largest holders,ynn also gained enormous profits. According to PANews' previous statistics, James Wynn's initial investment in PEPE was only $7,600, by April 2024, had $ million Given that PEPE subsequently rose by around 3 times, value James earnings exceed $50 million.
Subsequently, James Wynn's gradually began to change,ioning community promoter an investor and. the latter half024focusing on Bitcoin trends and market analysis, and changed his Twitter Twitter name from "James Wynn (TheAT JamesYnn Whale".
In March 2025, James Wynn officially started tradingerldepositing around $6 million to conduct contract trading. just two months, May 024, whe increased his profits to around $48 million through high-leverage operations on Hyperliquid.
Especially in the past month month, through frequent high-leverage and large-investments,, James Wynn not only frequently placed his operations on media hot searches but also proved his talent or luck with a single month's $$36 million profit.
His trading on Hyperliquid was surprisingly simple, mainly mainly focusing on Bitcoin and a few meme coins like PE,E, andcexample 6, long on at an average price of $94,292 with 40x leverage; when Bitcoin rose from $94,to000 to $100,000, his floating profit reached $5$5 million. His 10position onPE floating profits high million. TRUMPOIN trades also contributed around $5-5.7 million and $4.3-5 million profits, respectively.
As of May 24, James Wynn's total funds on Hyperliquid were $.80 million, compared to his 12.5USD USD position position. His overall leverage ratio was about 22x, meaning market fluctuations over 5% could lead to full liquid.ation However, considering he had already already earned tens of millions from PEPE and other meme coins, these positions were within his controllable risk range. On May James his12 billion position, suffering a loss of around $13.39 million which brought his overall earnings back to around $40 million.
Looking at James James Wynn's crypto trading career, from obscurity to MEME leader to contract trading whale, his journey seems to best perfectly match people's imagination of crypto crypto wealth stories. He He unwilling to remain low-key holding massive, active on This exposure has some benefits - during the MEME shillingilling period he, leverage his followers for his; in the contract trading phase, operations might influence some traders' judge market judgments, potentially creating a follow-trading effect.
ultimatelyely, success seems a mixture of market timing, extraordinary, boldness (or risk-taking), and powerful self capabilities. Whether he's a trading prodigy or just a lucky person riding the wave, opportunity only time will tell..
