Original author: 1912212.eth, Foresight News
The market is ever-changing, and countless well-known traders have come and gone. They once briefly appeared on the crypto stage, relying on huge amounts of funds and high leverage to attract a lot of attention. However, in a market with large fluctuations, come and go quickly is the norm. James Wynn disappeared from the stage after losing tens of millions of dollars in contracts, and the tens of millions of dollars of short orders of insider trader @qwatio were swept out by the violent market rebound. It is not common to have a general who always wins in the contract market.
However, due to the recent recovery of the crypto market and the surge in 1inch, the community began to circulate the exclamation that the 1inch team is good at spot operations in the secondary market. What is the truth?
Buy low and sell high
1inch was founded in 2019 by Sergej Kunz and Anton Bukov to solve the pain point of liquidity fragmentation in decentralized finance. The platform aggregates liquidity from multiple DEXs such as Uniswap and SushiSwap to ensure that users get the best exchange rate. The 1inch investment fund is managed by a team that is responsible for treasury and strategic investments, and often makes bold operations that affect the price of 1INCH tokens and market sentiment.
Since the last cycle, the 1INCH token has fallen from $6 to around $0.3 today. The performance of the token itself is very sluggish. However, its team has managed to buy low and sell high on its own token.
Unlike retail investors who chase hype, the 1inch team focuses on value accumulation and opportunistic trading.
This approach has raised questions about insider advantage, but supporters see it as a reflection of good execution. As of July 2025, their performance in the crypto market recovery has become a vivid example of resilience and timing. (0x225d3822de44e58ee935440e0c0b829c4232086e)
At about 5 pm on July 10, the team investment fund purchased 4.12 million 1INCH (US$880,000), and then transferred 2 million USDT to Binance. At this time, the price of 1INCH was US$0.2;
On the evening of July 11, according to the monitoring of Ai Yi, an analyst on the chain, the 1inch team is suspected of purchasing 11.81 million 1INCH again, worth 3.3 million US dollars, and the price is 0.28 US dollars. Currently, the address holds 83.97 million 1INCH, with a total value of 23.72 million US dollars.
At about 3 pm on July 13, the team withdrew 6.334 million 1INCH after transferring USDT to Binance. As of this time, the 1inch team investment fund has spent a total of 13.64 million US dollars since February to purchase 55.85 million 1INCH, with an average price of 0.244 US dollars. The floating profit is millions of US dollars.
At around 10 p.m. on July 13, his team sold 904,000 1INCH at $0.33, converting it into $298,000. However, on the same day, his team transferred in 2 million USDC at around 7 p.m.
Since the investment fund bought the coin on July 10, the price of 1INCH has been rising from around US$0.2, and even reached above US$0.39 on July 13, an increase of nearly 100%.
If this is just a matter of easily buying low and selling high for its own tokens, then the courage to buy BTC against the trend at the beginning of this year is truly amazing.
The 1INCH team investment fund has sold all 160.8 WBTC purchased at an average price of $88,395 between February 2 and March 10, with an average selling price of $94,219 and a profit of $936,000.
As shown in the red box, the market was in a relatively panic phase from February to the end of April this year, and countless market voices said that the bull market was over. Being able to increase positions at this time showed that one is bold and careful.
Success comes from execution, not pursuit
One of the 1inch team’s earliest well-known trades dates back to late 2023, when they executed a perfect “arbitrage-style” operation on Uniswap’s UNI token. On November 17, 2023, the 1inch investment fund sold 416,924 UNIs at an average price of $5.11 in exchange for approximately $2.13 million in USDC. A few days later, they used the same amount to buy back 420,828 UNIs at $5.06, buying slightly more. Then, when the price rose, they sold all of them at $6.29 just 5 hours after the buyback, earning approximately $2.65 million in USDC and a net profit of approximately $516,000. This trade demonstrates their ability to take advantage of short-term volatility and turn small price fluctuations into substantial gains.
Why is the 1inch team so good at cryptocurrency trading? First, their deep understanding of the DeFi mechanism allows them to discover low market value. Second, the counter-cyclical approach: accumulate when fearful, sell when strong. This echoes the advice of traders: avoid impatience in low time frames, where noise drowns out signals. Patience trumps frequency. Avoid scalping for small profits, and focus on volatility. Impatience in low time frames can easily lead to failure. Diversify your risks, but avoid overdoing it.
The 1inch team is not a fluke, but uses data, technology and discipline to buy low and sell high. Tracking shows that it will continue to make profits and influence the market during the fluctuations in 2023-2025. For retail investors, this is a reminder that success comes from execution, not chasing. In the future, their trading performance is still worthy of market attention.
