Whale Awakes After 6 Months Slumber: Giant Deposits 150M SAHARA Tokens Binance at $7.97M Loss: Selling Signal or Distribution Ahead?

Sahara AI (SAHARA), a cryptocurrency powering a decentralized network that makes AI development, ownership, and applications accessible to people, is experiencing uncertainty, as flagged today by market analyst Onchain Lens. According to the data posted by the analyst, a whale today deposited 150 million SAHARA tokens worth $4.2 million into the Binance exchange after dormancy in the last 6 months.

Back on July 3, 2025, the whale bought the 150 million Sahara AI tokens worth $12.1 million from Binance, as illustrated in the data. Today, the investor deposited the 150 tokens valued at $4.2milion (due to the asset’s price drop) to Binance, making a loss of $7.97 million, after holding them over the past six months.

SAHARA Whale Deposits Sparks Scrutiny

The investor’s deposit activity holds potential impact on SAHARA’s market dynamics and crypto AI narratives. Typically, such as huge inflows of tokens to an exchange (like Binance) signal looming selling pressure, as pointed out by the investor’s decision to move the tokens to liquid trading gateways on the Binance exchange. The transaction indicates the investor’s intention either to engage in portfolio rebalancing or to prepare to utilize the tokens for various exchange-based financial offerings.

Clearly, poor performance for Sahara AI’s price seems to be one of the catalysts for the investor’s move to deposit the tokens from his private wallet to Binance. SAHARA’s price, which currently stands at $0.02835, is 222.68% down from the recent high of $0.09148 noted on September 15 last year.

On June 26, 2025, Sahara AI grabbed crypto investors’ attention with its launch on public crypto markets, including Binance, OKX, KuCoin, HTX, Bitget, MEXC, XT.COM, CoinW, and Bitrue. The token’s public debut attracted user appetite as savvy investors massively accumulated the asset, eventually pushing its price to climbing to its all-time high of $0.518 on July 13, 2025.

Following the public launch, SAHARA witnessed steady declines during the latter half of the year due to increased selling activity, leading to significant price falls. On November 30, 2025, Sahara AI experienced a big token crash that resulted in a massive drop of its price from a high of $0.081 to a low of $0.0346 after a market maker liquidated its SAHARA tokens. The liquidation event prompted speculations from the token’s community about the asset’s future.

Sahara AI’s Market Outlook

Today’s move by the whale above to participate in the dumping activity of tokens further exposes difficulties in the Sahara AI market. However, the SAHARA price has not been affected by the transaction. The SAHARA price, currently hovering at $0.02835, is up 0.3% and 5.0% over the past 24 hours and seven days, respectively. Despite that, the future of the asset’s price remains uncertain. If big wallets continue to offload, more decreases could follow.  

The recent rebound noticed in SAHARA’s market is part of a strong resurgence currently being experienced in the broader cryptocurrency markets amid the kick-off of the new year, led by AI coins and meme coins.