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Vol. III · No. 164 ← Directions
Wallet Dossier · On-chain Profile

The quiet compounding of northwind.hl

A $3.2M HyperLiquid book that almost never makes the leaderboard — and almost never loses. Inside a wallet built on patience.

0x88c1…af30 Lifetime PnL +$1.46M Reputation 851 AI Risk Low · 21
Portfolio value
$3,214,000
+1.1% today
Fig. 1 — Two years of equity. Marked events: deposits, withdrawals, the largest wins and the single notable drawdown. Hover any marker for detail. Source: on-chain, via LiquidScan.

Most wallets that reach the top of HyperLiquid get there loudly. northwind.hl did the opposite. Over two years it compounded a modest deposit into a $3.2M book through a diet of patient position-trades — rarely more than five at a time, rarely above 6× leverage, and almost never held overnight without a hedge.

The Book

Today the wallet runs four positions worth $1.14M in deployed margin. The conviction is unmistakable — long BTC, long HYPE — but it is balanced by a standing ETH short that has quietly hedged three separate market wobbles this quarter.

MarketSideSizeEntryMarkLevMarginuPnL
BTC-PERP
LONG9.8 BTC61,90068,910$420K+$68.7K
HHYPE-PERP
LONG210K HYPE18.4024.85$380K+$135K
ΞETH-PERP
SHORT240 ETH3,5203,392$170K+$30.7K
SOL-PERP
LONG720 SOL161.0155.2$70K−$11.6K

The Holdings

Beyond the perp book sits $2.1M in collateral and spot — over half of it idle USDC, a deliberate reserve that lets the wallet add to winners without being forced to sell.

Holdings
$2.10M
USDC
Free collateral
$1.18M56%
Spot holdings
HYPE · BTC · 4 assets
$546K26%
Staked HYPE
12.1K HYPE · 8.4%
$252K12%
LP positions
HLP vault
$124K6%
Fig. 2 — Asset allocation. A large idle-USDC reserve is the wallet's defining structural choice.

The Track Record

The numbers tell a story of consistency rather than spectacle. A 66% win rate across 5,900 trades, $184M of lifetime volume, and — most tellingly — a Sharpe ratio of 2.18, which puts the wallet in the top 5% of comparable books.

“This is a wallet that treats cash as a position. It would rather miss a move than force one.” — LiquidScan AI, behavioral analysis

The Risk

If there is a vulnerability, the model finds it in concentration: BTC and HYPE together account for roughly two-thirds of deployed margin. Yet liquidation probability over the next week sits at just 11%, and the composite risk score — 21 of 100 — is among the lowest the system assigns to wallets of this size.

Field Notes

A selection of the wallet's most recent on-chain activity, newest first.

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