Following the start of Lido's buyback program, there are suspicions of large-scale purchases of LDO and AAVE by whales.

CoinFeed reported on April 17 that, according to Ember, after Lido initiated its LDO buyback program, whales or institutions allegedly purchased 4.5 million LDO tokens through off-exchange trading, involving approximately $1.86 million. Over the past day, this address received approximately 4.5 million LDO tokens and 10,000 AAVE tokens from market makers Wintermute and FalconX, the latter being worth approximately $1.15 million at current prices.