A prominent security researcher, ZachXBT has finally found the person’s identity behind much-talked Hyperliquid trades, who allegedly profited over $20 million by illicit activities. The guy aliased as “Hyperliquid Whale” within the crypto community turns out to be an infamous fraudster and gambler from the UK.
While sharing his latest analysis in a latest X post, ZachXBT revealed that the strings of the recent popular “Hyperliquid Whale” leads to William Parker, who was previously arrested for stealing nearly $1 million from two casinos in 2023 and was sentenced in Finland. The man also made headlines in 2010 within the UK on fraud charges relating to hacking and gambling.
The investigation states that this trader opened multiple high leveraged long and short positions on Hyperliquid and GMX, from January to March 2025.
The accusation against the trader involves his involvement in insider trading as he opened long positions for ETH and BTC just before Trump’s crypto reserve announcement on 2nd March. At the time, The CryptoTimes reported that he made nearly $7 million in profits.
ZachXBT did a fabulous job with his extraordinary investigating and analysis which led to the identifying the illicit trader. He found multiple links from the trader’s onchain address and it all led to a UK phone number that belongs to Willian Parker.
“It is abundantly clear Willim Parker [ also goes by the name Alistair Packover ] has not learned his lesson over the years after serving time for fraud and will likely continue gambling,” said ZachXBT in his post.
ZachXBT is famous for carrying out such operations and finding connections to real people from any onchain links. Over the years, Zach has played a key role in helping and solving high profile hacks and exploits with most of the findings leading to North Korea’s infamous hacker group Lazarus.
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