Whale Frenzy Fuels Altcoin Surge Amid October's Crypto Tempest

As prominent holders negotiate razor-sharp market swings with deliberate accuracy, October 2025 has started a whirl of whale activity in the altcoin world. With wallets holding 10 million to 100 million tokens inflating their holdings from 1.16 billion to 1.24 billion in September only, driven by a 7% rise in exchange withdrawals, Worldcoin (WLD) steals the spotlight. This accumulation frenzy supports WLD's entry into AI-driven digital identity spheres, therefore indicating whales' long-term bets on disturbance.

Following its v2 network update, Mantle (MNT) rides high on whale enthusiasm as 100M-1B token holders command 2.78B tokens and inter-wallet transactions explode 35% month-over-month. This momentum is underlined by the dash of the token to all-time highs at about $1.80. Meanwhile, meme darling PEPE and metaverse classic SAND grabbed huge whale purchases during the week's slow mood, with SAND's big-league holders scooping up 100 million. Seven days only extra tokens.

Whales turned to contrarian strategies under the shadow of the crash, where $20 billion vanished on October 12–13, releasing short salvos on Bitcoin, XRP, DOGE, PEPE, ETH, and Solana upfront. of Jerome Powell's unlucky October 14 speech. While Ethereum fights the bearish trend via relentless accumulation, Hyperliquid heavyweight sports $98M in altcoin shorts, reducing exchange balances to 2016 lows and channeling staking and cold storage ETH. With DEX volumes soaring 47% week-on-week, pointing to a move to non-custodial smarts, institutions now have 3.8% of ETH's supply—twice that of Bitcoin.