Since October 2025, Bitcoin [BTC] and most of the altcoins have been trending downward. Many alts, even prominent ones, never really got a long-term uptrend going. The price gains in the past couple of days for BTC and other tokens were only a bounce within a downtrend.
Hyperliquid [HYPE] was one of the large-cap tokens whose long-term trend was firmly bullish.
Source: HYPE/USDT on TradingView As the 1-week chart above highlights, the swing structure has been bullish for more than a year. It was trading at $70.11, and was up 7.51% in the past week and over 74% up in a year.
This cemented the long-term bullish trend, but the RSI was forming lower highs in recent weeks while HYPE bulls tried to push prices to new highs. Hence, a weekly session move beyond $72.1 would present a bearish divergence, though it doesn’t guarantee an immediate correction.
Here’s what traders and investors can expect from Hyperliquid token’s price action.
HYPE price prediction for July Source: HYPE/USDT on TradingView Over the past month of trading, the DEX token has formed a range [purple] between $53.35 and $74.78. At the time of writing, the price was above the mid-range resistance at $64.1 and also the short-term resistance zone at $67.2.
This upward push came despite some profit-taking by whales. The selling was being absorbed by the demand in the market.
Combined with the recent bullish momentum for Bitcoin, it appeared likely that HYPE can continue higher toward $75.
The OBV was climbing steadily, and the RSI remained above neutral 50. Together, they signaled steady buying pressure and intact bullish momentum.
Traders’ call to action- Wait Source: HYPE/USDT on TradingView The range formation needs to be cleared for the next decisive higher timeframe move. Within this range, a test of either extreme can offer swing traders an opportunity to enter.
Right now, this opportunity was not at hand. The risk-to-reward was not ideal for swing traders at the time of writing.
The technical indicators favored short-term upside. Therefore, a move toward the $75 supply zone and a bearish reaction from there can be used to sell the token, targeting the mid-range and range-low support levels.
Final Summary Hyperliquid was one of the only large-cap crypto assets that maintained a long-term bullish trend. The $75 supply zone was vital for swing traders. A breakout past, or a rejection from, this area would be a signal for traders to place directional bets.
Two protocol upgrades turned Hyperliquid from a crypto perpetuals exchange into something closer to an operating system for markets. HIP-3 lets anyone with enough staked HYPE launch a perpetuals exchange for stocks, oil, or gold. HIP-4 adds prediction markets that settle without a token vote. Here is how both work, what they have built so far, and where the risks sit.
Hyperliquid spent its first two years being described as the fastest decentralized perpetuals exchange in crypto. The description was accurate and incomplete. Since late 2025, the network has been executing a more ambitious plan: turning its core trading infrastructure into a platform that other builders deploy markets on top of, the way developers deploy apps on cloud infrastructure. Grayscale Research made the comparison explicit in a June 2026 note, writing that Hyperliquid now looks less like a stock exchange and more like Amazon Web Services.
Two upgrades carry that transformation. HIP-3, live on mainnet since October 13, 2025, opened perpetual futures listing to outside builders and brought tokenized stocks, commodities, and indices onto the platform at scale. HIP-4, live since May 2, 2026, added a second market primitive built for prediction markets and other event contracts. Together they explain why seven of the top ten markets by volume on a crypto exchange are now things like Nvidia stock and gold, and why the platform is picking a direct fight with Polymarket and Kalshi.
This guide walks through what each proposal does, how the mechanics work, what has happened since launch, and what can still go wrong.
First, the basics: what a HIP is Hyperliquid is a layer 1 blockchain built around a fully on-chain central limit order book. Its core engine, HyperCore, processes around 200,000 orders per second and handles matching, margining, and liquidations for every market on the chain. A separate component, the HyperEVM, runs Ethereum-style smart contracts on the same consensus layer. The native token, HYPE, secures the network through staking, pays fees, and absorbs most protocol revenue through a continuous buyback program. Cumulative protocol revenue passed $1 billion in late June 2026, with an annualized run rate near $840 million.
Changes to the protocol arrive through Hyperliquid Improvement Proposals, or HIPs, which the community debates and HYPE stakers weigh in on before the core contributors ship the code. The first two set the pattern. HIP-1 created the standard for launching spot tokens, with ticker slots sold through recurring Dutch auctions, so listing a token became a market process instead of an application form. HIP-2 added a protocol-native liquidity mechanism that seeds order books for new tokens automatically, solving the empty-book problem that kills most new listings on other venues. Both dealt with spot markets, and both introduced ideas that return later: auctions as the allocation mechanism for scarce listing slots, and protocol-level guarantees standing behind builder-created markets. The third and fourth proposals took those ideas after the two bigger prizes: perpetual futures on everything, and event contracts on anything.
HIP-3: builder-deployed perpetuals Before HIP-3, listing a new perpetual market on Hyperliquid worked the way it works on most exchanges: the core team decided. That created a bottleneck and a gatekeeper, two things the platform’s own community had complained about as the asset universe stayed narrow while demand for stock and commodity exposure grew.
HIP-3, called Builder-Deployed Perpetuals, removed the gatekeeper. Since October 2025, any builder who stakes 500,000 HYPE can deploy an independent perpetuals exchange on HyperCore, without core team approval. At current prices near $64, that stake represents roughly $32 million, a number that matters for reasons covered below.
The deployer controls nearly everything about their market. They choose the assets, the oracle that sets the mark price, the collateral token, margin requirements, leverage limits, funding parameters, and the front-end experience. The first three assets in any HIP-3 exchange deploy without an auction. Additional assets go through a Dutch auction shared across all HIP-3 deployers, similar to the HIP-1 ticker auctions.
What the deployer does not control is the plumbing. HIP-3 markets inherit the full HyperCore stack: the same matching engine, the same order types, the same margining and liquidation logic, and the same solvency guarantees as the validator-operated markets. A trader interacting with a builder-deployed market gets the same execution quality as on the flagship crypto perps.
The economic design has three pillars:
The stake is a bond, not just a ticket. The 500,000 HYPE can be slashed if the deployer misbehaves, for example by manipulating an oracle or breaking market rules, and the requirement holds for 30 days even after a deployer halts all markets. Fees split down the middle. HIP-3 markets charge users twice the fee of validator-operated perps, and the deployer keeps 50%. The protocol collects the same revenue per trade either way, so builder markets grow the pie without cannibalizing it. Cross margin has eligibility standards. Validators only allow cross margin on HIP-3 assets with sufficient observable liquidity, a reliable external oracle, and resistance to price manipulation, and any 50% intraday move in the reference price triggers a review. The design goal is alignment: builders with $32 million at stake and a 50% revenue share have every reason to run clean, liquid, well-oracled markets, and a slashing mechanism waits for the ones who do not.
What HIP-3 actually built The proposal would be a footnote if nobody used it. The opposite happened. The first market, a synthetic Nasdaq-style index called XYZ100, went live within days of activation. Its deployer, TradeXYZ, then built out United States equities including Nvidia, Tesla, Google, and Amazon, plus gold and silver contracts benchmarked to COMEX front-month futures, and later secured official licensing rights to the S&P 500 ticker, a landmark moment for a DeFi protocol.
The numbers followed. Open interest across HIP-3 markets passed $1.43 billion within months of launch. By spring 2026, seven of Hyperliquid’s top ten markets by volume were tokenized equities or commodities, not crypto pairs. During the West Asia crisis earlier this year, when traditional commodity venues closed for the weekend, traders moved to Hyperliquid to trade oil, gold, and silver around the clock, and HIP-3 markets drove up to 40% of the platform’s total volume. Non-crypto assets showed 60% trader retention in late March, a signal that around-the-clock access to traditional markets is a durable product, not a novelty. At peak HIP-3 activity the platform generated $2.3 million in daily fees, funding $11 million in HYPE buybacks.
Other deployers took different angles. Kinetiq built around its liquid staking token. Liminal used HIP-3 markets to run fully on-chain delta-neutral yield strategies across equities, FX, and commodities, including markets collateralized with yield-bearing assets like Ethena’s USDe. In June, Hyperliquid and TradeXYZ launched the FOMO app, a single interface for trading equities, pre-IPO stocks, crypto, indices, and commodities. Access also spread through consumer wallets: HIP-3 markets can be traded through any Hyperliquid-compatible front end, including Phantom.
The listing economics also flipped in a way worth pausing on. Under the old model, and on centralized exchanges generally, a new asset waits for an exchange’s business development calendar, and projects have long complained about the cost and opacity of the process. Under HIP-3, listing latency collapsed from a governance or negotiation timeline to a deployment transaction plus an auction, and the gatekeeping moved from relationships to capital. A pre-launch project that wants a perpetual market for hedging no longer needs a major venue’s blessing; it needs a deployer willing to run the market. Comparable systems show how unusual this is: dYdX v4 still routes every new market through a governance vote with a week or two of latency, and GMX listings run through its core team. Hyperliquid is the first chain-level implementation where market creation itself carries no approval step.
The concentration is the caveat. TradeXYZ accounts for more than 90% of all HIP-3 open interest, and Blockworks Research has flagged the deployer economics as a structural risk: with a roughly $30 million lockup, auction costs, and stiff competition, a smaller deployer’s break-even period can stretch to four years. Blockworks has proposed lowering the stake for small builders and letting them keep 100% of revenue until they recover their costs. Hyperliquid’s own documentation says the 500,000 HYPE threshold is expected to fall as the infrastructure matures. Until it does, HIP-3 is permissionless in principle and an oligopoly in practice.
HIP-4: outcome markets HIP-3 covered continuous markets, things with a price that moves all day. It could not cleanly handle discrete events. A perpetual future needs an oracle that updates continuously with limits of roughly 1% deviation per update, a design suited to leveraged trading on a live price and incompatible with questions that jump from uncertainty to a hard answer in one instant, like an election call or an inflation print.
HIP-4, announced on February 2, 2026 and live on mainnet since May 2, added a purpose-built primitive for exactly that. Outcome markets are fully collateralized contracts that settle to exactly 0 or 1 at expiry. Each market has two sides, typically Yes and No, and the order books for the two sides are merged: an order to buy Yes at a price of 0.62 is the same order as one to sell No at 0.38, so all liquidity concentrates in one book. Positions are collateralized in USDH, the network’s native stablecoin, and because every position is fully backed, there is no liquidation risk.
The market lifecycle has a distinctive opening. Each new outcome market starts with a single-price clearing auction lasting around 15 minutes, during which traders submit limit orders but nothing executes. The auction clears at the price that matches the most volume, and unfilled orders roll into continuous trading on the standard order book. The mechanism exists to concentrate early liquidity and produce a fair opening price instead of a thin, gappy first print. It borrows a page from how traditional exchanges open trading each morning, which is fitting for a protocol that keeps hiring ideas from the market structure it wants to replace.
The architecture runs natively inside HyperCore, sharing the matching engine, order types, and throughput of every other market on the chain. That matters for one under-discussed reason: liquidity providers can quote prediction markets with the same tooling and speed they use on perps, instead of the bespoke market-making setups that thinner prediction venues require. Deep books were always the missing ingredient on long-tail event markets, and Hyperliquid’s bet is that professional liquidity follows familiar infrastructure.
The fee structure is openly aggressive. Opening or minting an outcome position costs nothing. Fees apply only on closing, burning, or settling, and makers pay zero. That pricing targets Polymarket and Kalshi, which processed a combined $44.8 billion in June on the back of the World Cup, and the community reaction at announcement made the intent plain. When the proposal dropped in February, crypto.news covered the market pricing in exactly that ambition, with traders framing HIP-4 as Hyperliquid trying to house all of finance.
Initial markets are curated and validator-deployed, starting with recurring daily Bitcoin price threshold contracts that reset each day, run by the prediction platform Outcomexyz. Planned categories include politics, sports, macro data releases, crypto events, and entertainment. A later phase opens permissionless deployment: builders will stake 1,000,000 HYPE per market slot, slashable and burned if validators find oracle manipulation, invalid state transitions, or prolonged downtime. One slot supports rolling and recurring markets, recycling after each settlement.
Settlement without a token vote The deepest difference between HIP-4 and the incumbent on-chain prediction markets is not fees. It is how truth gets decided.
Polymarket outsources contested resolutions to UMA’s optimistic oracle, where token holders vote on disputed outcomes, an architecture that has produced repeated controversies in 2026, including a $60 million market on a Strategy Bitcoin sale that resolved against the documented facts. The full mechanics and failure modes of that system are covered in our companion guide to how prediction markets resolve.
HIP-4 replaces the token vote with the chain itself. Settlement runs through Hyperliquid’s validator set executing automated resolution against pre-specified, objective data sources. There is no dispute window, no escalation, and no path for a token holder with a position in the market to also vote on its outcome. The trade-off is scope: deterministic settlement works for objective questions with a clean data source, which is why the first markets are price thresholds. Ambiguous questions, the kind that generate the worst oracle disputes elsewhere, are exactly the kind HIP-4’s design avoids listing.
What all of this looks like from the trader’s side For a user, the machinery above mostly disappears. HIP-3 markets sit in the same interface as the flagship crypto perps, trade through the same API, and settle against the same margin account. A trader shorting gold on a builder-deployed market places the order the same way they would short Ethereum, and the differences show up in three places worth knowing.
Fees are higher on builder markets. The headline rate on a HIP-3 perp is twice the validator-operated rate, which at base tiers works out to roughly 3 and 9 basis points for makers and takers before discounts, with the deployer keeping half. Staking discounts, referral rebates, and collateral-based reductions still apply on top, so an active HYPE staker narrows the gap considerably.
Oracle quality varies by deployer. On validator-operated markets, the network itself maintains the price feed. On a HIP-3 market, the deployer chooses and operates the oracle, which is why the mark price on a weekend oil contract can drift from where Monday’s COMEX open eventually prints. During the West Asia crisis, Hyperliquid’s oil market traded on its own oracle through days when no traditional reference price existed at all. That independence is the product and the risk in one feature.
Collateral differs by market. Most markets margin in stablecoins, but HIP-3 supports alternative collateral where the deployer enables it, including yield-bearing assets, and HIP-4 outcome positions collateralize in USDH. Settlement demand for outcome markets flows through the stablecoin into the same fee-and-buyback loop that already routes nearly all protocol revenue toward HYPE, which is why analysts treat HIP-4 volume as a direct token catalyst rather than a side business.
The practical entry points have multiplied too. Beyond the native app, HIP-3 and HIP-4 markets surface through Phantom, through the FOMO app for the equities lineup, and through any front end built on the public API, since every builder market shares the unified HyperCore order flow.
The risk column Every part of the story above has a counterweight, and an honest explainer lists them.
Deployer concentration is the loudest one. A permissionless system where one builder holds 90% of open interest has recreated a gatekeeper one level up, and the $32 million entry stake keeps it that way for now. Regulatory exposure is the second. Hyperliquid operates without KYC in most of the world, the United Kingdom’s FCA has declared the platform unauthorized, and pending United States market structure legislation could either validate or constrain synthetic stock perpetuals, a product category regulators have barely begun to examine. Institutional ceilings are the third: a June JPMorgan report saw limited institutional demand for perpetual futures generally, citing unbounded basis risk and missing clearing protections, which matters for a token whose valuation leans on volume growth. And the products themselves are dangerous instruments. Leveraged perpetuals on any underlying can liquidate a position in minutes, and cross margin across markets adds its own failure modes.
There is a subtler risk in the oracle layer that the slashing design only partially covers. A deployer’s oracle is a single point of interpretation for its markets, and unusual conditions expose the gap: when traditional venues close and a HIP-3 commodity market keeps trading, the mark price is whatever the deployer’s methodology says it is, with no external reference to check against until markets reopen. Validators review any 50% intraday reference move and slashing punishes proven manipulation, but a subtly mispriced weekend, honest or otherwise, transfers money between longs and shorts without tripping any threshold. Traders in builder markets are underwriting oracle methodology whether they think about it or not.
None of that has slowed the platform yet. Hyperliquid controls an estimated 70% of on-chain perpetuals volume, spot HYPE ETFs drew $111 million in inflows in late June while Bitcoin and Ethereum funds bled, and the ecosystem is spending on the long game, including a $29 million policy center in Washington. Whether the moat holds is a different question from whether it exists.
The bigger picture for L1 competition HIP-3 and HIP-4 also reframe what layer 1 blockchains compete on. Ethereum and Solana fight over DeFi liquidity, users, and fees, a race with its own 2026 scoreboard. Hyperliquid opted out of the general-purpose contest and vertically integrated one thing: markets. The bet is that an exchange-shaped blockchain with permissionless market creation captures more value than a general-purpose chain hosting exchange apps. dYdX tried a dedicated appchain with governance-gated listings. GMX built on someone else’s layer 2. Hyperliquid is the first to make market creation itself permissionless at the chain layer, and the early evidence, an order of magnitude expansion in what can be traded on-chain, suggests the design space was bigger than the industry assumed.
What to watch from here Three markers will tell the story over the next year. First, whether the HIP-3 stake requirement drops and the deployer set widens beyond one dominant builder. Second, whether HIP-4 volume becomes measurable against Polymarket and Kalshi once permissionless deployment opens and categories expand past crypto prices. Third, whether regulators treat builder-deployed stock perpetuals as an innovation to license or a loophole to close. The upgrades themselves are shipped and working. The open question, as always in this industry, is what survives contact with scale.
Frequently asked questions What is Hyperliquid HIP-3? HIP-3, called Builder-Deployed Perpetuals, is a Hyperliquid protocol upgrade live since October 13, 2025. It lets any builder who stakes 500,000 HYPE deploy an independent perpetual futures exchange on HyperCore, choosing the assets, oracle, collateral, and fee capture, while inheriting Hyperliquid’s matching engine, margining, and liquidation systems. It moved market listing from a core team decision to a permissionless, stake-secured process.
What is Hyperliquid HIP-4? HIP-4 is the outcome markets upgrade, announced February 2, 2026 and live on mainnet since May 2, 2026. It adds fully collateralized event contracts that settle to exactly 0 or 1 at expiry, with merged Yes and No order books, USDH collateral, no liquidation risk, and zero fees to open a position. It is Hyperliquid’s entry into prediction markets.
How much does it cost to deploy a HIP-3 market? A deployer must stake 500,000 HYPE, worth roughly $32 million at current prices near $64. The stake is slashable for misconduct and must be held for 30 days even after all of the deployer’s markets are halted. The first three assets deploy without an auction; additional assets go through a shared Dutch auction. Documentation says the threshold should fall over time.
What can you trade on HIP-3 markets? Builder-deployed markets cover tokenized United States equities such as Nvidia, Tesla, Google, and Amazon, index products including a licensed S&P 500 contract and the Nasdaq-style XYZ100, commodities such as gold, silver, and oil benchmarked to COMEX and other references, FX, and long-tail crypto assets. Seven of Hyperliquid’s top ten markets by volume are now non-crypto assets.
How does HIP-4 settlement differ from Polymarket? Polymarket resolves contested markets through UMA’s optimistic oracle, where token holders vote on disputed outcomes. HIP-4 settlement is deterministic: Hyperliquid’s validator set resolves each contract against a pre-specified objective data source, with no dispute window and no token vote. The design avoids governance attacks but limits markets to questions with clean, objective answers.
Who is TradeXYZ? TradeXYZ is the dominant HIP-3 deployer, accounting for more than 90% of builder-deployed open interest. It launched the first HIP-3 market, the XYZ100 index, built out the equities and commodities lineup, secured S&P 500 ticker licensing, and co-launched the FOMO trading app with Hyperliquid in June 2026. Its dominance is also the center of the deployer concentration debate.
Is trading on Hyperliquid safe? The protocol has strong solvency engineering and a clean track record on its core markets, but the products are high-risk by nature. Leveraged perpetuals can liquidate quickly, HIP-3 markets depend on each deployer’s oracle quality, the UK’s FCA lists the platform as unauthorized, and synthetic stock perpetuals sit in a regulatory gray zone. Position sizing and jurisdiction checks matter.
Does HIP-4 have liquidation risk? No. Outcome positions are fully collateralized in USDH at purchase, so the maximum loss is the amount paid for the position and no liquidation engine is involved. That distinguishes outcome markets from perpetuals, where leverage means positions can be forcibly closed. The risk in outcome markets is being wrong about the event, or holding through a settlement data error.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Digital asset markets are volatile and you can lose your entire investment. Always do your own research. Information current as of July 3, 2026.
@VALRdotcom, Africa's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has integrated @HyperliquidX to power a new cross-asset perpetuals product offering over 200 markets. The integration marks Hyperliquid's first direct partnership with a centralized exchange.
Branded "Perps on VALR," the product is set to go live on the web on July 6, 2026, with mobile app availability to follow shortly after.
A Regulated Front End, a Decentralised Back EndThis is the first time a major regulated centralized exchange has natively built on top of Hyperliquid's Layer-1 blockchain. Users will be able to open and manage positions directly within the VALR platform without needing to bridge assets or navigate external decentralized applications. VALR is operating under FSCA regulation while sourcing liquidity from Hyperliquid's decentralised infrastructure.
The expansion enables users to go long or short with leverage across global equities, commodities, precious metals, stock indices, forex pairs, and crypto assets. The equities offering includes contracts linked to companies such as NVIDIA, Tesla, and Apple, as well as pre-IPO markets including SpaceX. The platform will also provide exposure to global benchmarks including the S&P 500, commodity markets such as Brent crude and gold, and forex pairs such as EUR/USD and GBP/USD.
VALR's Place in the African Crypto LandscapeLicensed by South Africa's FSCA and with a provisional licence from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, VALR serves over 1.9 million registered users and 1,900 corporate and institutional clients worldwide. The exchange has attracted institutional backing from Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures.
For the African crypto ecosystem, the launch is notable. VALR serves a large and growing user base across the continent, where demand for sophisticated trading tools continues to rise. By bringing institutional-grade perpetuals to its platform, VALR aims to bridge traditional finance with decentralized market access.
Hyperliquid is widely recognised as the largest on-chain perpetual futures DEX, optimised for high-speed trading and deep liquidity across multiple asset classes. The deal signals a broader shift in how regulated exchanges are beginning to tap into decentralised infrastructure, using it as a liquidity and settlement layer rather than a competitor. Founder Jeff Yan confirmed that the integration enables the centralized platform to tap into the $HYPE network's high-velocity settlement layer.
Sources:
VALR Official Blog: VALR Launches 200+ Hyperliquid Perps Markets
Crypto Briefing: VALR integrates Hyperliquid to power its new perpetuals product
Crypto Times: VALR Integrates Hyperliquid to Launch 200+ Perpetual Markets in Africa
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TLDR: VALR will launch more than 200 perpetual markets through a direct Hyperliquid integration on July 6. The rollout marks Hyperliquid’s first direct integration with a centralized crypto exchange. New contracts span crypto assets, equities, indices, commodities, precious metals, and forex pairs. Mobile access will follow after the web launch as VALR expands its derivatives infrastructure. VALR, Africa’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume, will introduce more than 200 perpetual markets through a direct integration with Hyperliquid, expanding its derivatives offering beyond digital assets. The products will cover crypto, equities, indices, commodities, precious metals, and foreign exchange pairs.
The launch marks the first direct integration of Hyperliquid by a centralized exchange. Web access is scheduled to go live on July 6, with mobile support arriving shortly afterward.
VALR and Hyperliquid Expand Cross-Asset Perpetual Trading VALR announced the upcoming launch of its new Perps product through posts on X and a company blog update. The exchange said the offering will add more than 200 markets to its platform.
According to VALR, users will open and manage positions directly through the exchange’s interface. Hyperliquid will provide the on-chain infrastructure, liquidity sourcing, and trade execution capabilities.
The integration extends VALR’s derivatives architecture, which first introduced perpetual products in 2023. The exchange described the launch as an expansion of its existing derivatives business rather than a standalone product.
Hyperliquid Hub stated that the rollout represents the first direct integration of Hyperliquid by a centralized exchange. The account also noted that traders will gain access to several asset classes through a single interface.
Web-based trading will become available on July 6. VALR said mobile application support will follow shortly after the initial launch.
Hyperliquid Integration Adds Equities, Commodities, and Forex Markets The new perpetual contracts span multiple global asset classes. VALR said the product will allow users to take long or short positions with leverage.
The equities offering includes contracts linked to companies such as NVIDIA Corporation, Tesla, Inc., Apple Inc., and pre-IPO markets including SpaceX.
The platform will also provide exposure to global stock benchmarks, including the S&P 500. Commodity contracts will cover markets such as Brent crude oil, WTI crude oil, natural gas, gold, silver, platinum, and copper.
Foreign exchange products will include currency pairs such as EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY. The crypto segment will cover major assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, alongside other digital assets.
In its blog post, VALR said the integration marks the first time a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetual markets.
Chief Operating Officer Gianluca Sacco said the new offering brings around-the-clock access to several asset classes through the regulated exchange infrastructure that existing customers already use.
He also stated that Hyperliquid’s infrastructure provides access to deep on-chain liquidity for the expanded perpetual markets.
Hyperliquid (HYPE) extends gains above $66 on Friday, maintaining a long-term upward trend supported by its rising 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) around $60. Retail demand for HYPE rises in the near term, with Open Interest up around 5% over 24 hours as funding rates hold above zero, while institutional demand remains muted so far this week.
Retail demand builds despite institutional silenceHyperliquid gains retail strength as Bitcoin’s recovery above $61,000 on Friday eases broader market risk-off. CoinGlass data shows the HYPE futures Open Interest (OI) is up 5% over the last 24 hours, reaching $2.67 billion. This indicates a positional buildup in HYPE futures, which typically indicates a risk-on sentiment. In addition, the funding rates plateau around 0.0084%, reaffirming a largely bullish positional buildup as traders are willing to buy long positions at a premium.
However, the institutional demand remains low. Data shows HYPE-focused Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) recorded $2.24 million on Thursday, after a $2.85 million inflow the previous day. The mild inflows of less than $3 million so far this week, in addition to the $3 million outflow on Tuesday, following the $108 million inflow on June 25, reflect passivity among institutional buyers.
HYPE derivatives data. Source: CoinGlass
HYPE ETFs data. Source: SosovalueHYPE gears up for the next bullish rallyHyperliquid above $66 on Friday holds a constructive bullish bias as it stays comfortably above the 50-day EMA near $60.65 and the 200-day EMA around $46.57. This placement above both medium- and long-term trend gauges suggests the broader uptrend remains intact.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) near 54 hints at balanced but positive momentum, while the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is on the verge of crossing above its signal line, suggesting that recent downside pressure is losing traction.
On the topside, immediate resistance is seen at the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement around $66.22, measured over the upswing from $38.17 to $76.93. A break above $66.22 could expose the prior swing region near $76.94, followed by the 127.2% Fibonacci extension at $93.08.
HYPE/USD daily price chart.On the downside, first support emerges at the the 50-day EMA at $60.65, followed by the 50% retracement at $54.19.
(The technical analysis of this story was written with the help of an AI tool.)
Hyperliquid has cemented its position as crypto’s most aggressive token buyer, recording a single buyback of $283 million, the largest in the industry since the start of 2026. The decentralized perpetual exchange has now crossed $1.1 billion in cumulative buybacks.
The protocol isn’t doing this out of generosity. It’s a mechanical system: 97-99% of Hyperliquid’s trading fees flow directly into open-market purchases of HYPE tokens, which are then burned.
The buyback machine in numbers The Assistance Fund, approved by validators in December 2025, operates as a continuous demand engine for HYPE tokens.
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From January to October 2025 alone, the protocol spent $645 million on buybacks. Quarterly figures tell the acceleration story: $316.76 million in Q3 2025, $255.05 million in Q4 2025, and $192.25 million in Q1 2026. Monthly averages have ranged between $65 million and $85 million during earlier periods.
Over 44 million HYPE tokens have been acquired through the program so far. That represents roughly 4.4% of the total supply permanently removed from circulation.
Hyperliquid has generated over $1.16 billion cumulatively, with nearly the entire sum directed toward HYPE token acquisitions.
Eight projects join the buyback trend Eight crypto projects have now conducted buybacks that outstrip their supply growth since January 2026. That $283 million single buyback exceeds what many protocols generate in total revenue across an entire year.
What this means for investors Because buybacks are tied to trading fees rather than discretionary decisions by a core team, investors can model future demand based on trading volume. If the platform generates fees, HYPE gets bought and burned.
With 4.4% of total supply already removed and the program showing no signs of slowing, HYPE’s circulating supply is shrinking at a meaningful pace. For context, Bitcoin’s supply growth from mining is roughly 0.8% annually.
The model’s health depends entirely on Hyperliquid maintaining its trading volume dominance. Any sustained decline in perpetual trading activity would directly reduce the buyback rate.
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A centralized exchange just plugged itself directly into a decentralized protocol’s infrastructure. VALR, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Africa by trading volume, has integrated Hyperliquid to power a new cross-asset perpetuals product offering over 200 markets. It’s the first time a major regulated centralized exchange has natively built on top of Hyperliquid’s Layer-1 blockchain.
The product, announced on July 2, went beyond the typical crypto perpetuals menu. Users will be able to take leveraged long and short positions on global equities like NVIDIA and Tesla, commodities including oil and natural gas, forex pairs, and of course, crypto. Web access is scheduled to go live on July 6, with mobile support following shortly after.
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The CeDeFi play nobody expected The exchange, which serves more than 1.9 million users and over 1,900 institutional clients, is using Hyperliquid’s permissionless infrastructure for trade execution and liquidity sourcing. Hyperliquid is widely recognized as the largest on-chain perpetual futures DEX, optimized specifically for high-speed trading and deep liquidity across multiple asset classes.
VALR’s COO Gianluca Sacco framed the integration as an effort to deliver “the deepest on-chain liquidity available anywhere.” Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 protocol allows efficient third-party market deployment on its permissionless infrastructure, which is essentially what VALR is leveraging here.
Why VALR, and why now Founded in 2018, the exchange is regulated by South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA). It has attracted serious institutional backing, with investors including Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures on its cap table.
VALR is operating under FSCA regulation while sourcing liquidity from Hyperliquid’s decentralized infrastructure. A regulated front end, a decentralized back end.
What this means for the market For Hyperliquid, having a regulated exchange with nearly 2 million users building on your protocol is a significant validation event. The protocol’s HIP-3 framework was designed for exactly this kind of third-party deployment, and VALR is now the highest-profile test case.
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This Friday, we examine Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Binance Coin, and Hyperliquid in greater detail.
Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum managed to bounce off support at $1,500 and recovered last week’s losses. This is also why it closed the week with an impressive 10% rally, as buyers regained control of price action.
To be confident in a sustained recovery, the price will need to eventually break the current resistance at $1,800. Anything less than that would only be a short relief before sellers return to dominate.
Looking ahead, Ethereum has a real chance here to set a local bottom and attempt a rally. The question is if buyers have the volume and strength to sustain it and break the key resistance in the days and weeks to come.
Source: TradingView Ripple (XRP) This week, buyers managed to defend $1, sending the price 6% higher. However, there is resistance at $1.1, which has managed to hold off the bulls, at least as of this post.
Similarly to Ethereum, XRP needs to make the best of this bounce and turn it into a sustained rally if it wants to break away from its current downtrend. Even if the $1.1 resistance falls, the price still has to claim $1.3 to confirm a breakout.
Looking ahead, the price reaction at $1 was somewhat expected since it’s a key psychological level. If buyers fail to capitalize on this in the coming days and weeks, then sellers will likely return to put pressure again.
Source: TradingView Cardano (ADA) This week, ADA impressed with a 16% bounce after the price briefly fell under the $0.15 support. With the support secured, this cryptocurrency has a good shot at moving higher. However, as of this post, the price formed a lower high.
To be confident in a sustained recovery, Cardano will have to move beyond its previous high of 19 cents. Anything less than that would make this a bearish bounce, eventually leading to ADA falling lower.
Looking ahead, sentiment across the crypto market has improved with the start of July, but the month is only just beginning, and it is too early to say whether the current price action will be sustained. At a macro level, ADA remains bearish.
Source: TradingView Binance Coin (BNB) Compared to the other coins on our list, Binance Coin remained flat this week. This is atypical and rather bearish because the price failed to reclaim its support at $580. Because of that, sellers retain the upper hand and may aim for $500 next.
The $500 support hasn’t been tested yet, but it’s the next major level if bears continue to dominate the chart. Moreover, Binance failed to secure a MICA license in the EU at the start of July, which made it lose a key market to competitors.
Looking ahead, any weakness for Binance, the exchange, will likely translate to its token, BNB. The current chart seems to confirm this, as it remains in a bearish trend with no bounce or recovery in sight.
Source: TradingView Hype (HYPE) HYPE found good support above $60 and bounced by 6% this week. This has placed it in flat price action since early June. This consolidation is also forming a large pennant. Once that is resolved, we will know where this cryptocurrency is headed next.
When a pennant forms, the price tends to respect the underlying trend, which, in this case, is bullish. Therefore, the higher probability is for the price to break away and aim for new highs.
Looking ahead, HYPE will have to secure $68 as a key support and hold above it if it wants to challenge the current all-time high at $77. Anything less than that, or a break below $60, would be a bearish signal with lower lows likely.
Bitcoin climbed above the $61,000 mark and the recovery was led by macro data, as weaker U.S. jobs numbers increased expectations that the Federal Reserve may shift toward a less restrictive policy stance. The cryptocurrency was trading at $61,739 mark.
In the past 24 hours, Bitcoin was up 2.80% and Ethereum was up 6.24% to trade at $1,716 mark. Among the major altcoins, BNB, XRP, Solana, Tron, Hyperliquid, Dogecoin, and Cardano gained upto 6.68%.
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Riya Sehgal, Research Analyst, Delta Exchange said the move is still a relief rally, not a confirmed reversal. For Bitcoin, $62,200 is the first resistance. A sustained move above this level can open room toward $64,000–$65,000.
ETF flows have improved for Bitcoin but remain uneven, while Ethereum ETF flows are largely flat, Sehgal further said. Bitcoin picked up to $62,000 after whales added 270,000 BTC, forcing $130M short losses and the fear and greed index has risen to 22, as the market sentiments improve but still remain under fear, said CoinDCX Research Team.
The global crypto market capitalisation went up 2.64% to $2.13 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap.
In the past week, Bitcoin and Ethereum were up 1.97% and 8.68% respectively. Among the major altcoins, XRP, Solana, Hyperliquid, Dogecoin, and Cardano gained upto 14.91% whereas BNB and Tron were down 1.25% and 1.15% respectively.
CoinSwitch Markets Desk said BTC staged a rebound towards $62K, driven primarily by a short squeeze. However, the broader backdrop remains mixed. Institutional demand remains weak due to persistent ETF outflows, while higher bond yields continue to compete with risk assets.
The next major directional move will likely depend on macroeconomic conditions, institutional flows, and whether BTC can sustain momentum above $62K toward the $65K resistance, CoinSwitch Markets Desk further said.
Here is what other analyst say
Avinash Shekhar, Co-Founder & CEO, Pi42: Bitcoin’s rebound following weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data underscores how closely crypto markets are tracking macroeconomic expectations. For investors, the conversation is gradually shifting from “how low can prices go” to “when does liquidity begin returning to the market.
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Nischal Shetty, founder, WazirX: Bitcoin recovered above the $60,000 mark as investors responded positively to expectations of a more accommodative monetary policy, while Ethereum ETFs recorded fresh inflows, signalling renewed institutional interest.
Vikram Subburaj, CEO, Giottus: The recovery above $60,000 has helped stabilise market sentiment. This follows this week's decline towards $58,000. However, it is still not enough to confirm a durable trend reversal.
Akshat Siddhant, Lead quant analyst, Mudrex: On-chain data shows Bitcoin exchange inflows have climbed above 50,000 BTC per day, along with Ethereum exchange inflows exceeding 1.25 million ETH. Historically, such spikes in exchange deposits have often been followed by increased volatility, including June’s decline to $58,000.
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VALR will become the first major regulated exchange to natively integrate Hyperliquid, sourcing onchain liquidity for 200+ perps markets.
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VALR, Africa's largest crypto exchange by volume, is launching over 200 Hyperliquid-powered perpetuals markets, marking the first major regulated exchange to integrate the chain to expand its own offerings.
What's the Scoop?The Launch: Starting July 6th, users will be able to go long or short markets directly through VALR's web app, with mobile to follow. The product builds on the exchange's existing derivatives infrastructure, which launched its first perpetuals in 2023.Available Markets: At launch, coverage will include pre-IPO and listed equities (SpaceX, NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, Samsung, Palantir), global indices like the S&P 500, energy and metals (Brent, WTI, natural gas, gold, silver, copper), major forex pairs (EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY), and a broad crypto selection.The Reach: VALR serves over 1.9 million registered users and 1,900 institutional clients, licensed by South Africa's FSCA with a provisional Cayman license.
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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.
TradingView has expanded its market coverage by adding real-time data for Hyperliquid and Trade[XYZ], giving users access to onchain perpetual and spot markets directly through its charting platform.
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TradingView has added real-time Hyperliquid and Trade[XYZ] market data to its charting platform. Users can now track crypto, equities, commodities, forex, and pre-IPO perpetual markets around the clock. The integration comes days after Singapore’s MAS placed Hyperliquid on its Investor Alert List. According to TradingView, the new integration brings live pricing for Hyperliquid’s crypto perpetual and spot markets alongside Trade[XYZ] markets covering equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and pre-IPO companies.
Trade[XYZ] and Hyperliquid data is now live on @tradingview. Putting this data where traders live has been a top priority for us.
Markets are increasingly shaped by events unfolding around the clock, and price discovery shouldn't stop when traditional venues close.
Users now…
— trade.xyz (@tradexyz) July 2, 2026 The data is available through TradingView’s Supercharts, allowing traders to follow price movements throughout the day, including when traditional financial markets are closed.
The addition extends the range of assets available on TradingView without requiring users to leave the platform for onchain market data. Hyperliquid markets appear under the HYPERLIQUID symbol prefix, while Trade[XYZ] listings can be accessed using the HIP3XYZ prefix through the platform’s symbol search.
Hyperliquid expands beyond its core exchange Built on its own layer-1 blockchain, Hyperliquid operates an onchain perpetual futures exchange that currently supports more than 300 perpetual and spot markets across cryptocurrencies, commodities, and indices.
The ecosystem has also grown through HIP-3, a protocol upgrade that allows third-party developers to launch perpetual markets using Hyperliquid’s infrastructure. Under that framework, Trade[XYZ] has become the first major deployment, offering perpetual markets tied to multiple asset classes, including cryptocurrencies, equities, as well as crypto spot trading.
By adding both Hyperliquid and Trade[XYZ] feeds, TradingView has made those markets available alongside its existing charting tools, enabling traders to monitor perpetual contracts and spot assets from a single interface.
Regulatory attention has continued alongside platform growth The TradingView integration comes days after the Monetary Authority of Singapore added Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert List, as previously reported by crypto.news.
According to the regulator, the listing covers both the Hyper Foundation website and the Hyperliquid trading application. MAS said the Investor Alert List is intended as a consumer protection measure identifying entities that could be mistakenly viewed as licensed or regulated by the authority. The regulator also stated that inclusion on the list does not constitute a ban or an enforcement action.
Following the listing, Hyperliquid said it had never claimed to be licensed or authorized by MAS.
Despite the regulatory attention, the decentralized exchange has remained one of the largest trading platforms in the sector. According to CoinGecko, Hyperliquid ranks as the sixth-largest decentralized exchange by trading volume. Separately, DefiLlama estimates that the protocol currently secures about $5.76 billion in total value locked.
The latest TradingView integration gives market participants another way to follow activity across Hyperliquid’s expanding ecosystem, combining live data from crypto perpetuals, spot assets, and Trade[XYZ]’s cross-asset markets within a single charting environment.
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Shiba Inu remains under heavy pressure despite showing some signs of stabilization near local lows. After losing a number of significant support levels during the overall market decline, the asset is currently trading at $0.0000043. The 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day trend lines on the chart continue to point downward, indicating that bears are still in control of the market. SHIB is clearly below all major moving averages.
The recent rebound from June lows has been modest at best. Another rejection and continuation lower resulted from SHIB's short-lived formation of a small ascending structure that was unable to maintain momentum.
SHIB/USDT Chart by TradingViewPositively, the RSI is trying to form a higher low after recovering from extremely oversold territory, indicating that selling pressure is progressively lessening. The first significant obstacle for bulls is still the $0.0000046 region, which is followed by more robust resistance close to $0.0000050-$0.0000055, where a number of moving averages converge.
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A breakout above those levels could trigger a more meaningful recovery. Any upward movement should be seen as a relief rally within a broader downtrend, though, as long as SHIB stays below them.
Should XRP Rival SHIB?Technically, XRP is outperforming SHIB by a small margin. The asset has held above the psychologically significant $1 level after a protracted decline, and it has recently recovered toward $1.09. XRP is still trading below the 100-day and 200-day trend indicators, but the recovery has forced it back toward its short-term moving average.
The completed breakdown from a multi-month consolidation range is the chart's most prominent feature. That breakdown accelerated selling pressure throughout June, but XRP appears to be attempting to establish a local bottom above the $1 support zone.
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Momentum is improving, as seen by the RSI's recovery toward neutral territory. If buyers keep things under control, XRP may face resistance at $1.12 and then $1.21, which is where the 100-day moving average is currently located. The asset's outlook would be greatly enhanced by a successful move above those levels.
Although XRP is still in a bearish long-term structure for the time being, it is exhibiting relative resilience in comparison to many significant altcoins. While holding above $1 is still crucial, a recovery above $1.21 would be the first clear sign of a more significant reversal.
Hyperliquid Makes HasteDespite the recent decline, Hyperliquid is still one of the market's top large-cap performers. HYPE is currently consolidating around $66 after surging to new all-time highs close to $76, returning some of its gains while preserving a strong bullish structure.
In contrast to the majority of altcoins, HYPE is still trading well above its upward-sloping 50-, 100-, and 200-day moving averages. The wider uptrend is confirmed to be intact by that alignment. The price has returned to the 50-day moving average at $63.9 as a result of the recent correction, and this is serving as the first significant dynamic support.
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After spending weeks close to overbought territory, the RSI has retreated to the neutral 53 area, indicating a significant cooling of momentum. That is a healthy development rather than a bearish one, as it reduces the risk of an overheated market. Another attempt to recover the $70 level is more likely if buyers hold onto the $63–$64 support zone.
Although the long-term outlook would remain bullish unless that level also fails, losing that support would expose HYPE to a deeper correction toward the 100-day moving average near $61.5.
Synapse's Unexpected RecoveryIn just a few weeks, Synapse went from below $0.05 to above $0.50, making it one of the market's most explosive performers. The rally was propelled by multiple events that reinforced one another rather than a single catalyst. After Binance placed SYN under its Monitoring Tag, the action started as an aggressive short squeeze. As the price recovered from extremely oversold levels, heavily shorted positions were compelled to cover rather than causing capitulation.
SYN/USDT Chart by TradingViewAfter the Synapse team shifted the project's narrative from its legacy bridge business to Hypercall, an options exchange based on Hyperliquid, the rally picked up speed. There was a resurgence of speculative interest in that new direction. The last significant boost came when Arthur Hayes, a co-founder of BitMEX, revealed an OTC purchase of over six million SYN tokens for about $2.2 million.
He described this as asymmetric exposure to the Hypercall ecosystem. His support raised market awareness considerably. Technically, however, caution is warranted. SYN is trading well inside overbought territory, with an RSI close to 88. The unusually long wicks of daily candles indicate significant profit-taking and high volatility.
The price is currently trading several hundred percent above the long-term moving averages, even though they have turned bullish. This leaves ample opportunity for significant retracements. Bulls continue to have momentum as long as SYN stays above the psychological $0.50 area. But after such a vertical move, volatility should be expected, and another 20–40 percent correction would not necessarily invalidate the broader uptrend.
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Hyperliquid Adds GRAM Perps After Sustained Community Requests@HyperliquidX has officially listed $GRAM perpetual futures, allowing traders to go long or short on the asset with up to 5x leverage. The listing follows a sustained wave of community requests as the token gained volume across major global venues including @Official_Upbit and @Binance.
The move gives traders their first high-performance decentralized venue for hedging $GRAM exposure. Hyperliquid is a Layer 1 blockchain known for its fully onchain order book and perpetual futures exchange, where every order and liquidation is executed and settled transparently onchain.
What Is GRAM and Why Does It Matter NowThe timing of the listing is closely tied to a significant rebrand on @Ton_blockchain. On June 15, 2026, the token formerly known as Toncoin was officially renamed Gram, with the ticker switching from TON to GRAM after a community governance vote passed with 81.22% support. The blockchain itself retains the name The Open Network.
The rebrand was a pure branding update covering name, ticker, and logo only. There was no new contract, no token swap, and no migration step of any kind. All $TON balances converted to $GRAM automatically at a 1:1 ratio, with no action required from holders.
The name Gram carries historical weight. The Gram rename is step four of Pavel Durov's Make TON Great Again roadmap, with Telegram now serving as the network's primary operator and largest validator. Gram was the original token name chosen in TON's 2018 whitepaper before U.S. regulatory pressure forced the project to pause and restructure under community leadership.
With $GRAM now trading at scale across centralized venues and the rebrand fully live, Hyperliquid's listing provides a decentralized derivatives layer for traders seeking to hedge or speculate on the asset without relying on custodial infrastructure.
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The cryptocurrency Gram (GRAM), which returned to its historic name as part of a major rebranding of the TON ecosystem, is showing a local rally amid a broader market revival.
At the time of writing, the price of the GRAM token, previously named Toncoin, has already climbed from $1.56 to a local peak above $1.71, and it is currently holding around $1.65–$1.67, securing the asset in the top 20 largest cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap with a total market capitalization of $4.49 billion.
GRAM token price action since the rebranding announcement, Source: TradingViewThe current jump is explained by the fact that this ticker now carries an old and familiar brand for the market. It was under the name Gram that Pavel Durov and the Telegram team raised a record $1.7 billion in 2018 to build the Telegram Open Network blockchain.
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However, in 2020, due to heavy pressure from the U.S. regulator the SEC, the project had to be shut down in its original form, and Durov returned the money to investors. The blockchain was then taken over by an independent community of developers, who continued developing it for years under the Toncoin and The Open Network brand.
Binance and Hyperliquid step in for GRAMThe return to the Gram name years later has become an extremely convenient marketing move for attracting new liquidity. In a rising market, such speculative narratives work as a strong catalyst for buying, and the momentum was immediately reinforced by larger centralized and decentralized venues — Binance and Hyperliquid, respectively.
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Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, quickly opened spot pairs with USDT, USDC, and FDUSD, while also launching futures contracts. Meanwhile, the DeFi platform Hyperliquid added leveraged contracts at the community's specific request.
As a direct result, global traders received a working combination of a strong bullish backdrop, a loud news catalyst, and immediate access to trading on key platforms.
TradingView has added market data from Hyperliquid and Trade[XYZ], allowing users to chart a broader range of onchain perpetual markets directly through its platform.
Trade[XYZ] and Hyperliquid data is now live on @tradingview. Putting this data where traders live has been a top priority for us.
Markets are increasingly shaped by events unfolding around the clock, and price discovery shouldn't stop when traditional venues close.
Users now…
— trade.xyz (@tradexyz) July 2, 2026
The integration provides real time data for Hyperliquid crypto perpetuals and spot assets, alongside Trade[XYZ] markets tied to equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and pre IPO companies.
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The feeds allow TradingView users to track price discovery around the clock, including during periods when traditional exchanges are closed.
Hyperliquid operates a layer one blockchain built around an onchain perpetual futures exchange. The platform currently offers more than 300 perpetual and spot markets spanning crypto assets, commodities, and indices.
The network has also expanded beyond its core exchange through HIP-3, an upgrade that allows independent developers to launch perpetual markets using Hyperliquid’s infrastructure.
Trade[XYZ], the first major deployer under HIP-3, offers perpetual markets linked to several asset classes. Its platform currently includes Hyperliquid crypto perpetuals, equity perpetuals, and crypto spot markets.
TradingView users can find the newly added markets through the symbol search function in Supercharts. Hyperliquid markets are available under the HYPERLIQUID prefix, while Trade[XYZ] markets can be found using HIP3XYZ.
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Following a major rebranding within the TON ecosystem, Gram has returned to its historic name and experienced a short-term rally in line with the broader recovery in the cryptocurrency markets. With this latest move, the asset has maintained its status among the 20 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, according to CoinMarketCap.
Price movement and market capitalizationThe price of GRAM climbed from $1.56, surging past the local peak of $1.71, before stabilizing between $1.65 and $1.67. Its total market capitalization reached $4.49 billion.
This uptick is largely driven by the renewed focus on the Gram brand, which holds significant recognition in the market. The Gram name first emerged when Telegram founder Pavel Durov and his team raised $1.7 billion in 2018 to develop the Telegram Open Network blockchain. Durov is widely known as the founder of the messaging platform Telegram.
The Gram name has long been recognized in the market after $1.7 billion was raised in 2018 for the Telegram Open Network initiative.
Setbacks due to SEC interventionInitially, the project was halted in 2020 following pressure from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). During this period, Pavel Durov returned funds to investors. The blockchain subsequently came under the stewardship of an independent developer community and continued evolving over the years under the Toncoin and The Open Network brands.
Years later, the revival of the Gram brand stands out as a compelling marketing move, particularly amid a rising market. Coupled with a surge of positive news, this strategic pivot has bolstered new liquidity and driven increased demand among investors.
Rapid listings boost upward momentumThe strong rally was further fueled by swift action from both centralized and decentralized trading platforms. Binance listed GRAM with USDT, USDC, and FDUSD trading pairs and swiftly rolled out perpetual futures contracts. Hyperliquid, responding to community demand, also introduced leveraged contracts for GRAM.
PlatformNewly added productsBinanceUSDT, USDC, FDUSD spot pairs and perpetual futuresHyperliquidLeveraged contractsBinance’s rapid rollout of spot and futures products, along with Hyperliquid’s addition of leveraged contracts in response to community demand, quickly broadened access to GRAM.
Thanks to these developments, global investors encountered an upbeat market environment, a wave of positive news, and instant access across major platforms. Together, these factors became the main pillars behind the recent price movement in GRAM.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
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@Grok, the AI chatbot developed by @XAI, has flagged $SOL, $HYPE, and $ZEC as its top three altcoins for bullish performance in July 2026. The picks were shared by @BSCNews after putting the question directly to the model, and the results leaned on a mix of momentum, market structure, and protocol-specific catalysts.
Solana Leads on Momentum@Solana's $SOL token took the top spot. Grok pointed to improved price momentum as the primary reason for the bullish case. That view is consistent with broader analyst sentiment around the network. Institutional adoption continues to strengthen Solana's long-term outlook, with the network increasingly being used for real-world asset tokenization, and firms such as Franklin Templeton and BlackRock highlighting its growing role in traditional finance infrastructure. Solana's high throughput and low fees have also kept it at the centre of DeFi and meme coin activity, giving it one of the more active on-chain ecosystems heading into the second half of the year.
Hyperliquid and Zcash Round Out the List@HyperliquidX's $HYPE token ranked second, with Grok citing the platform's dominance in the perpetuals space as the key driver. That dominance is well-documented. As of late April 2026, Hyperliquid accounts for roughly 70% of all on-chain perpetual futures volume across every chain. The protocol's cumulative revenue has surpassed $1 billion, reinforcing its buyback-driven tokenomics. Spot HYPE ETFs also drew $111 million in inflows as of late June 2026, contrasting with outflows seen across Bitcoin and Ethereum funds.
@Zcash completed the trio. Grok's reasoning centred on a privacy upgrade catalyst for $ZEC, though the model did not specify a timeline. Privacy-focused assets have historically attracted attention during periods of broader regulatory uncertainty, and Zcash's ongoing protocol development keeps it relevant to that narrative.
As with any AI-generated market outlook, these picks reflect pattern recognition rather than financial advice, and investors should conduct their own research before acting on them.
Sources
Investing.com: HYPE Bullish Run Continues as Hyperliquid Hits Record Share of Global Perpetuals
CoinMarketCap: Latest Hyperliquid News and Market Insights
Forbes: Why Hyperliquid's HYPE Is Rising
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Türkiye-based digital asset platform Paribu has launched DeFi access inside its main app, adding DEX trading, perpetual contracts through Hyperliquid, and Polymarket-linked option markets.
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Paribu now offers Hyperliquid perpetuals and Polymarket markets through its main self-custodial DeFi app section. The platform opened a waitlist for NYSE, Nasdaq, and Borsa Istanbul stock trading access soon. Paribu says users can trade DeFi products without separate wallet apps, seed phrases, or transfers. The company also opened a waitlist for stock trading as it works to combine crypto, DeFi, yield products, and equities in one app.
Paribu said it is the first regulated exchange to offer both Hyperliquid perpetuals and Polymarket option markets through a centralized exchange interface. Users can access the DeFi section with their existing balance, without a separate wallet app, seed phrase, or new account. The company said each DeFi position remains self-custodial, while trades settle onchain through linked protocols.
DeFi access targets Türkiye’s retail market Paribu framed the launch around Türkiye’s active crypto market. The company cited TRM Labs data showing Türkiye ranked fifth globally in retail crypto activity, with $40 billion in volume in Q1 2026. The figure rose 7% year over year while global retail crypto volume fell 11%.
The company said many local retail users keep their main crypto holdings inside one app and have not used DeFi wallet tools. Paribu’s DeFi access is designed to let these users reach onchain markets without switching platforms. Its blog post on DeFi access says the wallet setup uses passkeys and recovery tools instead of seed phrases.
Hyperliquid and Polymarket enter the app The Hyperliquid integration lets Paribu users trade perpetual contracts from the DeFi section of the app. Trades route to Hyperliquid’s decentralized blockchain, while positions remain in users’ self-custodial wallets. Paribu said Hyperliquid has processed more than $4 trillion in cumulative trading volume.
The launch follows wider activity around Hyperliquid. As reported by crypto.news, Kalshi launched CFTC-regulated HYPE perpetual futures, lifting HYPE futures open interest to $2.48 billion. Moreover, crypto.news reported thatHyperliquid added validator-settled outcome markets under HIP-4, expanding beyond perpetual futures.
Paribu also added access to Polymarket markets through the same DeFi section. The company said it will list curated markets only, with each contract reviewed for integrity, liquidity, and risk profile before appearing in the app. Paribu serves as the interface, while execution and settlement happen onchain through Polymarket infrastructure.
The rollout comes as prediction markets face closer review in several jurisdictions. As crypto.news reported, the CFTC is preparing new rules that could affect Polymarket and Kalshi. Crypto.news also reported that the CFTC sued Kentucky to block state action against Kalshi, Polymarket, and related partners.
Stock trading remains pending Paribu is also preparing to offer equities. Its brokerage arm has received establishment authorization from Türkiye’s Capital Markets Board and is waiting for an operating license. The company said NYSE, Nasdaq, and Borsa Istanbul stocks will become tradable after the license process is complete.
For now, users can view real-time market data for U.S. and Turkish stocks inside the app. Paribu said the stock waitlist is open before trading goes live. Founder and CEO Yasin Oral said, “Paribu is becoming a single app for all of finance: crypto, DeFi, equities, and yield.”
The expansion follows other Paribu moves. Previously, crypto.news reported that Paribu’s $240 million CoinMENA acquisition led a weekly crypto funding period in December 2025. The company has also said Clave joined Paribu in 2026 to support passkey-based account abstraction and self-custody tools.
Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2nd, 2026, Chainwire
Africa’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume expands its derivatives architecture, integrating Hyperliquid to offer access to perpetuals on equities, indices, precious metals, commodities, forex, and crypto. This marks the first time a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetuals. Perps on VALR are set to go live on the web on Monday, 6 July, with mobile app availability to follow shortly after. VALR has announced the imminent launch of ‘Perps’, a new cross-asset class perpetuals product that introduces more than 200 markets to the platform. This expansion enables users to express directional views by going long or short with leverage across a comprehensive selection of global equities, commodities, precious metals, stock indices, forex pairs, and crypto assets. The launch adds to VALR’s established derivatives infrastructure, which pioneered the exchange’s initial perpetuals offering in 2023.
Strategic Infrastructure Integration with Hyperliquid The new product is delivered through an integration of Hyperliquid, a high-performance decentralised blockchain. Using Hyperliquid’s permissionless infrastructure, VALR users can open and manage positions directly on VALR, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Advanced Cross-Asset Market Exposure The inclusion of over 200 new markets marks a major development in the diversity of assets available through a single digital platform and marks the first time that a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetuals. The newly available contracts span multiple global asset classes, enabling traders to express their views on macroeconomic events and capitalise on volatility:
Global Equities and Benchmarks: Perpetual contracts on trending global enterprises and pre-IPO markets, including SpaceX, NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, SK Hynix, Samsung, and Palantir Technologies, alongside exposure to leading global equity indices such as the S&P 500 and other international indices. Commodities and Precious Metals: Exposure to vital energy markets, including Brent Crude Oil, WTI Crude Oil, and Natural Gas, metals such as Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Copper. Foreign Exchange: Institutional currency pairs including EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY. Crypto Assets: Comprehensive coverage of the digital asset ecosystem, ranging from foundational protocols like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, to a wide selection of alternative layer-1 and layer-2 networks, decentralised finance tokens, and high-volume tokens. Gianluca Sacco, Chief Operating Officer at VALR, said:
“With this launch, we’re putting over 200 perpetuals markets directly inside the VALR app. 24/7 access to crypto, commodities, currencies, and equities – both listed and pre-IPO – all through the regulated exchange our customers already trust. Perps are how crypto traders take a view on price – a market now exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars in daily volume. We believe they will become how people trade every market. Our integration of Hyperliquid will give our users the deepest on-chain liquidity available anywhere. For VALR customers in South Africa and beyond, this is access to the markets that matter, in real-time.”
About VALR Founded in 2018, headquartered in Johannesburg, and backed by leading investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital, VALR is the leading digital asset exchange and infrastructure provider on the African continent, offering a comprehensive suite of products, including Spot Trading, Spot Margin, Perpetuals, Staking, Lending, Borrowing, OTC services, VALR Invest, Crypto Bundles, and VALR Pay. Licensed by South Africa’s FSCA, and with a provisional licence from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, VALR serves over 1.9 million registered users and 1,900 corporate and institutional clients worldwide. The exchange is dedicated to advancing a just financial future that upholds human dignity and the unity of mankind. For more information, visit valr.com.
About Hyperliquid Hyperliquid is a decentralised layer one blockchain best known for perpetuals and spot trading. It is the largest and most liquid decentralised exchange, with support for crypto and real-world assets, such as oil and precious metals. In addition, the ecosystem supports borrowing, lending, and a full-fledged EVM.
Risk Disclosure
Futures trading is provided by VALR DAM Pty Ltd, a licensed Financial Services Provider (FSP #54897) and Over-the-Counter Derivatives Provider.
VALR Perps order management, order execution, liquidation, margin requirements, position management, mark prices, and funding rates are managed by, and provided through, certain third-party liquidity provider(s). VALR acts only as an intermediary that enables account holders to access the services offered by such third-party liquidity provider(s) and disclaims any liability arising from or in connection with the acts, omissions, services, pricing, liquidity, order execution, system availability, or operational failures of such third-party liquidity provider(s).
Use of VALR Perps involves risk; please refer to VALR’s Risk Disclosures and Futures Terms of Service.
Johannesburg, South Africa, 2nd July 2026, Chainwire
[PRESS RELEASE – Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2nd, 2026]
Africa’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume expands its derivatives architecture, integrating Hyperliquid to offer access to perpetuals on equities, indices, precious metals, commodities, forex, and crypto. This marks the first time a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetuals. Perps on VALR are set to go live on the web on Monday, 6 July, with mobile app availability to follow shortly after. VALR has announced the imminent launch of ‘Perps’, a new cross-asset class perpetuals product that introduces more than 200 markets to the platform. This expansion enables users to express directional views by going long or short with leverage across a comprehensive selection of global equities, commodities, precious metals, stock indices, forex pairs, and crypto assets. The launch adds to VALR’s established derivatives infrastructure, which pioneered the exchange’s initial perpetuals offering in 2023.
Strategic Infrastructure Integration with Hyperliquid The new product is delivered through an integration of Hyperliquid, a high-performance decentralised blockchain. Using Hyperliquid’s permissionless infrastructure, VALR users can open and manage positions directly on VALR, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Advanced Cross-Asset Market Exposure The inclusion of over 200 new markets marks a major development in the diversity of assets available through a single digital platform and marks the first time that a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetuals. The newly available contracts span multiple global asset classes, enabling traders to express their views on macroeconomic events and capitalise on volatility:
Global Equities and Benchmarks: Perpetual contracts on trending global enterprises and pre-IPO markets, including SpaceX, NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, SK Hynix, Samsung, and Palantir Technologies, alongside exposure to leading global equity indices such as the S&P 500 and other international indices. Commodities and Precious Metals: Exposure to vital energy markets, including Brent Crude Oil, WTI Crude Oil, and Natural Gas, metals such as Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Copper. Foreign Exchange: Institutional currency pairs including EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY. Crypto Assets: Comprehensive coverage of the digital asset ecosystem, ranging from foundational protocols like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, to a wide selection of alternative layer-1 and layer-2 networks, decentralised finance tokens, and high-volume tokens. Gianluca Sacco, Chief Operating Officer at VALR, said:
“With this launch, we’re putting over 200 perpetuals markets directly inside the VALR app. 24/7 access to crypto, commodities, currencies, and equities – both listed and pre-IPO – all through the regulated exchange our customers already trust. Perps are how crypto traders take a view on price – a market now exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars in daily volume. We believe they will become how people trade every market. Our integration of Hyperliquid will give our users the deepest on-chain liquidity available anywhere. For VALR customers in South Africa and beyond, this is access to the markets that matter, in real-time.”
About VALR Founded in 2018, headquartered in Johannesburg, and backed by leading investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital, VALR is the leading digital asset exchange and infrastructure provider on the African continent, offering a comprehensive suite of products, including Spot Trading, Spot Margin, Perpetuals, Staking, Lending, Borrowing, OTC services, VALR Invest, Crypto Bundles, and VALR Pay. Licensed by South Africa’s FSCA, and with a provisional licence from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, VALR serves over 1.9 million registered users and 1,900 corporate and institutional clients worldwide. The exchange is dedicated to advancing a just financial future that upholds human dignity and the unity of mankind. For more information, visit valr.com.
About Hyperliquid Hyperliquid is a decentralised layer one blockchain best known for perpetuals and spot trading. It is the largest and most liquid decentralised exchange, with support for crypto and real-world assets, such as oil and precious metals. In addition, the ecosystem supports borrowing, lending, and a full-fledged EVM.
Risk Disclosure
Futures trading is provided by VALR DAM Pty Ltd, a licensed Financial Services Provider (FSP #54897) and Over-the-Counter Derivatives Provider.
VALR Perps order management, order execution, liquidation, margin requirements, position management, mark prices, and funding rates are managed by, and provided through, certain third-party liquidity provider(s). VALR acts only as an intermediary that enables account holders to access the services offered by such third-party liquidity provider(s) and disclaims any liability arising from or in connection with the acts, omissions, services, pricing, liquidity, order execution, system availability, or operational failures of such third-party liquidity provider(s).
Use of VALR Perps involves risk; please refer to VALR’s Risk Disclosures and Futures Terms of Service.
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HIP-3 is a Hyperliquid network upgrade launched in October 2025 that allows permissionless deployment of perpetual futures markets by staking 500,000 HYPE tokens. Open interest across HIP-3 markets grew from roughly $790 million in January 2026 to a peak of $3.2 billion by June, according to Grayscale. TradeXYZ, the leading HIP-3 builder, accounts for more than 90% of all HIP-3 open interest with tokenized equities, indices, and commodities. Seven of Hyperliquid’s top ten markets by volume are now tokenized equities or commodity futures rather than traditional cryptocurrency pairs. Grayscale compared Hyperliquid’s infrastructure model to Amazon Web Services, calling it a platform where developers create products while HYPE captures value from every trade. Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 upgrade has quietly transformed a decentralized perpetuals exchange into what Grayscale Research described as “more like Amazon Web Services than a stock exchange” in a June 2026 research note cited by Stocktwits.
Since launching on October 13, 2025, HIP-3 has enabled permissionless deployment of perpetual futures markets for assets that include NVDA, TSLA, gold, crude oil, and the S&P 500. Open interest surpassed $3.2 billion in June 2026, and on peak days, HIP-3 markets accounted for nearly 48% of Hyperliquid’s total trading volume.
This article explains the mechanics of HIP-3, how open interest functions on the platform, and what the growth trajectory means for the broader DeFi derivatives market.
How HIP-3 Works: Permissionless Market Deployment HIP-3 enables any participant who stakes 500,000 HYPE tokens, worth approximately $25 million at current prices, to deploy their own perpetual futures exchange on HyperCore, Hyperliquid’s main trading layer.
Deployed markets operate alongside native Hyperliquid pairs but are not covered by the platform’s shared liquidity vault, known as HLP. Instead, deployers manage their own liquidity, according to a detailed CoinGecko analysis published in May 2026.
Deployers earn half of the trading fees generated on their markets. HIP-3 markets charge roughly double the native fee rate, starting at 0.09% for takers versus 0.045% on native pairs. A “Growth Mode” feature introduced in November 2025 allows deployers to reduce fees by 90% to accelerate adoption, according to OAK Research.
All HIP-3 markets are margined in USDC, priced against off-chain oracles, and trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This always-on structure proved especially relevant during the U.S.-Israeli-Iranian conflict, when high-impact market events developed outside traditional trading hours.
Open Interest Growth: From $790 Million to $3.2 Billion The growth trajectory has been steep. Open interest on HIP-3 markets stood at roughly $790 million in January 2026, crossed $1.43 billion by late March, surpassed $2 billion in April, and reached $3.2 billion in early June, according to a Grayscale research note.
Since launch, HIP-3 markets have processed over $200 billion in cumulative trading volume. TradeXYZ, a perpetuals platform built by the Hyperunit team, dominates the vertical, accounting for more than 90% of total HIP-3 open interest.
The platform offers exposure to U.S. equities such as NVDA, TSLA, GOOGL, and AMZN, a synthetic Nasdaq-style index called XYZ100, and commodities, including gold and silver, benchmarked to COMEX front-month futures. Non-crypto assets achieved 60% trader retention in late March 2026, indicating sustained engagement rather than speculative activity.
Analysis: The retention figure is significant. In most DeFi product launches, initial activity spikes and then decays within weeks. A 60% retention rate suggests that HIP-3 is solving a structural problem, 24/7 market access, rather than offering a novelty.
The fact that seven of Hyperliquid‘s top ten markets by volume are now non-crypto assets represents a category shift from a DeFi derivatives protocol toward a global macro trading venue.
Revenue, HYPE Buybacks, and the SpaceX Catalyst Hyperliquid generated $2.3 million in daily fees at peak HIP-3 activity, funding $11 million in HYPE token buybacks. The HYPE token outperformed Bitcoin and Ethereum by over 70% in Q1 2026, according to 99Bitcoins reporting.
The SpaceX initial public offering in June 2026 provided another catalyst. TradeXYZ launched a SpaceX pre-IPO perpetuals market on May 18, 2026, which surpassed $50 million in open interest before SpaceX officially filed its S-1 two days later.
Moon Rock Capital co-founder Simon Dedic stated in a post on X that the access issues retail traders faced around the SpaceX Nasdaq debut “make the case for trading exposure to high-profile private companies via onchain perpetual futures on Hyperliquid.”
In March 2026, the first S&P 500 perpetual futures product launched on Hyperliquid after S&P Dow Jones Indices licensed the index to a HIP-3 deployer, according to Grayscale.
Regulatory Implications HIP-3 markets offering tokenized equity derivatives operate without KYC requirements, creating a direct conflict with securities regulations in most jurisdictions. The SEC has not issued specific guidance on permissionless perpetual futures tied to U.S. equities. As HIP-3 open interest approaches levels that attract institutional market-making firms, regulatory scrutiny is likely to intensify.
What’s Next for HIP-3? Grayscale’s research note positioned $5 billion in open interest as the inflection point at which HIP-3 markets attract professional market-making firms from CME and CBOE. The launch of HIP-4, which introduces outcome-based prediction market contracts on Hyperliquid, adds a new dimension.
Pending U.S. crypto market structure legislation could either validate or constrain the model. Participants should monitor regulatory developments and the platform’s approach to compliance.
FAQs What is Hyperliquid HIP-3?
HIP-3 is a Hyperliquid network upgrade from October 2025 that lets builders deploy permissionless perpetual futures markets by staking 500,000 HYPE tokens.
How much does it cost to deploy a HIP-3 market?
Deployers must stake 500,000 HYPE tokens, worth approximately $25 million at current prices, to launch a perpetual futures market on HyperCore.
What is open interest on HIP-3?
HIP-3 open interest peaked at $3.2 billion in June 2026, growing from roughly $790 million in January, according to Grayscale research data.
What assets can be traded on HIP-3?
HIP-3 supports tokenized equities like NVDA and TSLA, commodities including gold and oil, indices such asthe S&P 500, and pre-IPO stocks.
What is TradeXYZ?
TradeXYZ is the leading HIP-3 deployer built by the Hyperunit team, accounting for more than 90% of total HIP-3 open interest across all markets.
How do HIP-3 fees work?
HIP-3 markets charge roughly double native Hyperliquid rates, with half going to the deployer. Growth Mode can reduce these fees by 90%.
What is HIP-4?
HIP-4 is Hyperliquid’s outcome-trading upgrade, launched in May 2026, introducing fully collateralized prediction-market contracts that settle at 0 or 1.
References What is Hyperliquid’s HIP-3? How it works and use cases, OAK Research, June 2026 Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 & HIP-4: Tokenized Stocks and Prediction Markets, CoinGecko, May 2026 Hyperliquid Emerges As Superior Alternative After SpaceX IPO Lockup Chaos, Stocktwits, June 2026 Hyperliquid Fees Explained: Perps, Spot & HIP-3, Datawallet, May 2026
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TL;DR The industry lost $75.87 million across 40 major crypto hacks in June, down 7.13% from May. Humanity Protocol suffered the largest exploit of the month, with losses totaling $31 million. PeckShield found that the Humanity Protocol attacker laundered stolen funds across multiple blockchain networks. Private key compromises continue to drive a significant share of crypto theft despite secure blockchain infrastructure. The cryptocurrency sector lost $75.87 million to 40 major security breaches in June 2026, marking a 7.13% decline from the $81.7 million stolen in May, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield. Although total losses eased month over month, attackers continued to target decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, bridges, and protocols, with the Humanity Protocol exploit accounting for the largest single incident.
#PeckShieldAlert In June 2026, the crypto space experienced 40 major hacks, resulting in total losses of $75.87M — a 7.13% month-over-month decrease from May ($81.7M).
Both #Aztec Bridge & #Aztec Connect were targeted within the same month, with combined losses of ~$4M.
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— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) July 1, 2026
PeckShield reported that the Humanity Protocol hack resulted in approximately $31 million in losses, followed by the Syscoin Bridge exploit at $10 million and the JaredFromSubway.eth MEV bot incident, which caused $7.5 million in damages. Other notable attacks affected Secret Network, Polymarket users, SecondFi, TESSERA, Aztec Bridge, Aztec Connect, Taiko Bridge, Token of Power, Raydium, and LABUBU/OLPC.
The security firm also revealed that the Humanity Protocol exploiter has actively laundered stolen assets across multiple blockchain networks, including Bitcoin, Solana, Hyperliquid, and BNB Chain.
Humanity Protocol Exploiter Linked to Multiple Blockchain Networks According to PeckShield, investigators observed the Humanity Protocol attacker moving stolen funds across several blockchain ecosystems in an apparent effort to obscure their origin. The firm added that the laundered assets were commingled with funds associated with the KelpDAO exploit, suggesting a possible connection between the actors behind the two incidents.
June also saw both Aztec Bridge and Aztec Connect targeted in separate attacks during the same month. Together, the two exploits resulted in roughly $4 million in losses, adding to a growing list of bridge-related security incidents.
While June’s total losses were lower than those recorded in May, the number of major attacks highlights the continued security challenges facing the crypto industry.
Private Key Compromises Remain a Major Security Threat The latest wave of attacks comes as industry data continues to show that compromised private keys remain one of the leading causes of crypto-related theft. According to DeFiLlama data, blockchain projects have collectively lost $16.69 billion to hacks, bridge exploits, and other security incidents over the years, with roughly 40% of those losses linked to stolen or compromised private keys rather than flaws in blockchain infrastructure or smart contracts.
Hack Data | Source: DeFiLlama Private keys function as the credentials that grant access to cryptocurrency wallets and digital assets. As a result, attackers who obtain these keys can gain control of funds even when the underlying blockchain technology remains secure.
The June figures underscore that while overall monthly losses declined, security threats continue to evolve as attackers increasingly exploit operational weaknesses and move stolen assets across multiple blockchain networks in an effort to complicate recovery efforts.
Phantom has hired three Ventuals creators after the Hyperliquid-based project shut down its OpenAI and Anthropic perpetual futures markets.
Summary
Phantom has hired Ventuals creators Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia and Aris Samad for its trading and data teams. Ventuals recently shut down its OpenAI and Anthropic perpetual futures markets on Hyperliquid. Phantom said the hires will support its deeper push into perpetual futures and Hyperliquid-based trading products. Phantom CEO Brandon Millman said Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia and Aris Samad, who created Ventuals, have joined the company’s trading and data teams.
The move brings one of Hyperliquid’s closely watched private-company market experiments into Phantom’s growing trading business.
Ventuals had earlier announced that it was winding down and joining another project within the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The project had gained attention for offering perpetual futures tied to private-company valuations, including markets linked to OpenAI and Anthropic, before those products were closed.
Perpetual futures allow traders to take positions on price movements without a contract expiry date. Unlike traditional futures, these contracts can remain open as long as margin conditions are met, making them one of the most used derivative products in crypto markets.
Their constant availability, deep liquidity, and flexible market design have also made them useful for trading assets beyond listed cryptocurrencies.
Phantom deepens focus on Hyperliquid trading For Phantom, the hires come as the self-custody wallet continues adding trading-focused features to its core wallet business. The company is best known as a crypto wallet provider, but it has expanded into swaps, staking and derivatives as wallets compete to become more active financial platforms for users.
Millman said Phantom has become the largest distribution partner in the Hyperliquid ecosystem and plans to keep building around perpetual futures. He said open markets had become a major focus for the company and added that Phantom had gone deep into perps and planned to go further.
In the same statement, Millman described Hyperliquid as one of the strongest examples of what open markets can enable, citing its global liquidity and transparent onchain infrastructure. According to him, adding the Ventuals team will help Phantom move faster in developing trading products linked to the ecosystem.
The development also comes as perpetual futures gain attention outside crypto-native exchanges. Kalshi launched its own perpetual futures business last month after receiving regulatory approval, adding another example of trading platforms testing always-on derivatives beyond traditional crypto markets.
The cryptocurrency market has dropped by more than $2.3 trillion between October 2025 and July 1, but amid this decline, four revenue-backed crypto coins: Hyperliquid (HYPE), PumpFun (PUMP), Pancake Swap (CAKE), and Aave (AAVE), whose underlying blockchains generate revenues, are standing out.
Analyst Ted Pillows notes that the revenue earned by these blockchains is used to buy back their native crypto coins. These token buybacks then reduce the supply and boost the sentiment even when the broader market is bearish.
Per the analyst, traders should stop chasing narratives that most likely never play out in bear markets and instead focus on these revenue-backed crypto coins that return value to holders.
Hyperliquid Tops $14M in Weekly Revenues as Institutional Demand Soars Data from TokenTerminal shows that Hyperliquid generated $14.13 million in revenue for the week between June 22 and June 28.
These $14 million in revenue comes from the $2.06 billion in DEX volumes that Hyperliquid recorded during the same week per DeFiLlama data.
HYPE Revenues Hyperliquid uses 93% to 99% of these revenues to buy back HYPE tokens, which then reduces the supply, eases the selling pressure, and creates room for the price to gain.
SoSoValue data shows that institutions are betting on revenue-backed dynamics of this crypto coin after spot HYPE ETFs recorded $111.3 billion in inflows in the week of June 22 to June 26.
In comparison, Bitcoin ETFs had $1.79 billion in outflows during the week, while Ethereum ETFs had $273 million in outflows.
The sentiment around the HYPE token also remains bullish because the price is up by 2.89% between June 24 and July 1, while BTC and ETH have dropped by 6% and 5%, respectively, within the same period.
HYPE Crypto Coin Technical Outlook as Bear Flag Forms HYPE price gained from $60 on June 28 to $67 on June 29 before dropping to $64 today, July 1. This price movement has created a bear flag pattern with a height of 12%.
The price of this revenue-backed crypto coin could rise by 12% if it overcomes the barrier of this bear flag pattern at $64. Closing above this barrier of $64 for three straight days might push the price to $71.
The RSI reading of $48 suggests that the short-term momentum is still favoring bears. If bears tighten their grip and HYPE drops below the support of $64, it might retest the June 25 low of $58.
HYPE Price Chart However, Hyperliquid’s rising revenues support a bullish long-term HYPE price forecast, especially if institutions continue betting on the token through ETFs.
PumpFun Generates $3.89M In Revenues Despite Waning Meme Coin Activity PumpFun is also another revenue-backed crypto coin whose revenues reached $3.89 million between June 22 and June 29, per TokenTerminal data.
PUMP Revenues This meme coin on Launchpad continues to record revenues even when the meme coin market cap has dropped by $115 million.
Analyst Ted Pillows notes that PumFun had $459 million in revenues between July 2025 and July 2026, making it the second-biggest blockchain by revenues after Hyperliquid.
Just like HYPE, PUMP price has set itself apart from other crypto coins, and it has increased by 1.4% between June 22 and June 29.
That increase shows that the mechanism where Pumpfun uses 50% of the revenue that it generates to buy back PUMP tokens is easing selling pressure and increasing demand, which in turn supports gains in price.
PUMP Price Tests 20-day EMA Resistance as Bearish Pressure Wanes The price of the PUMP token is testing the barrier at the 20-day EMA of $0.00144. Making three daily closes above $0.00144 might push the price to the 50-day EMA of $0.00156.
A move above the 100-day EMA level of $0.00174 could support a bullish long-term PUMP price forecast, and the revenue-backed crypto coin could then target the May 10 high of $0.0022.
PUMP Price Chart The AO bars that are green despite being on the negative side also suggest that bears are losing their grip on the market, and PUMP price could close above the 20-day EMA level of $0.00144.
PancakeSwap Revenues Jump to $2.69B TokenTerminal also shows that the PancakeSwap DEX platform generated $2.69 billion between June 22 and June 29, and most of this came from DEX trading activity.
CAKE Revenues Data from DeFiLlama shows that the DEX volumes for this revenue-backed crypto coin reached $4.66 billion in the week of June 22, higher than the $4.51 billion seen in the week of June 15.
Pancake Swap uses part of the revenues that it generates from trading activity to buy back CAKE tokens before sending them to a burn address and removing them entirely from the supply.
This burn mechanism has reduced the number of CAKE tokens that are in circulation from 326 million to 307 million, and this casts a bullish outlook on the PancakeSwap long-term price forecast if demand rises.
CAKE Price Outlook as AO Bars Flash a Bearish Divergence on the Crypto Coin The AO bars on CAKE’s daily chart that are green despite being negative have created a bullish divergence.
This is because the bars are suggesting bearish pressure is waning even as the price drops.
CAKE/USDT Price Chart The price of CAKE has moved to the support of $1.26, and if it moves below it, bears might pull the price down to the June 1 low of $1.127.
But if bears weaken their grip on CAKE as the AO bars hint, the price might rise to $1.63.
Aave Revenues Jump As Demand for the Crypto Coin Soars Aave is one of the top revenue-backed crypto coins that traders are watching, especially now that rumors are swirling around Kraken purchasing a 15% stake in Aave.
AAVE Revenues While the founder of Aave, Stani Kulechov, denied the claims about Kraken’s investment in the company, the revenues rose to $1.98 million per TokenTerminal data, suggesting that the news increased interest in the platform.
Data from DeFiLlama also shows that the fees paid on Aave in the week between June 22 and June 29 reached $7.48 million.
The price of this revenue-backed crypto coin has also increased by 15% from $70 on June 24 to $86 today, July 1.
AAVE Technical Outlook as Bears Test Support AAVE has dropped to test the support level of 85. This drop comes as the volume bars that are red show that selling pressure is more than buying pressure,
A move below this support of $85 might push AAVE price to the June 23 low of 70.
AAVE Price Chart The RSI reading of 57 suggests that bulls are in control, and AAVE price might rise to $95. But this RSI line is also dropping, suggesting that buying pressure is waning.
US-listed Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $4.5 billion in net outflows during June 2026. This was the worst monthly figure since the products launched in January 2024.
The redemptions coincided with a sharp price decline. Bitcoin fell 20.48% over the month, its steepest monthly drop since June 2022, when the asset shed 37.28% during that cycle’s collapse.
IBIT Leads the Institutional RetreatJune’s outflows broke the previous monthly record of $3.56 billion, set in February 2025 during an earlier stretch of market stress.
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Bitcoin ETF Monthly Flows. Source: SoSoValueBlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) accounted for the bulk of the outflows. The fund alone shed $3.55 billion, close to 79% of the category’s total redemptions.
That concentration is striking. IBIT’s single-fund outflow nearly matched the entire category’s prior monthly record on its own.
The price data reinforces the pressure. Bitcoin closed four of 2026’s first six months in negative territory, with June’s 20.48% decline the deepest of the year.
How Crypto ETFs Performed in June 2026The weakness extended beyond Bitcoin, though the scale varied across categories. Ethereum (ETH) ETFs posted $528.99 million in June outflows, SoSoValue data showed.
Solana (SOL) ETFs recorded net outflows of roughly $786,580. The figure is small, but it marks the first monthly outflow for Solana ETFs since their launch, ending a run of positive months.
Top Crypto ETFs Performance in June. Source: BeInCryptoNot every category turned negative. XRP (XRP) ETFs drew $59.46 million in net inflows during June, holding positive despite the broader downturn.
Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETFs led the group with $161.05 million in inflows, the strongest June showing across the products.
The split suggests capital rotated within crypto rather than exiting entirely. Newer altcoin products absorbed fresh money even as the two largest categories saw sustained redemptions.
Whether that rotation hardens will depend on how Bitcoin trades in July, since a price rebound could pull capital back toward the incumbents.
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Phantom CEO Brandon Millman. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk))Summary
Phantom hired the team behind Ventuals, the project that recently shut down OpenAI and Anthropic perpetual futures on Hyperliquid.The hiring aims to boost Phantom's plans to "go deeper" on perpetuals and open markets as wallets increasingly evolve into trading platforms, CEO Millman said.Perpetual futures have become one of crypto's fastest-growing products, expanding beyond digital assets into traditional markets.The team behind one of Hyperliquid's highest-profile private-company trading projects has found a new home.
Crypto wallet Phantom said Tuesday it hired Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia and Aris Samad, the creators of Ventuals, the project that shut down its OpenAI and Anthropic perpetual futures markets earlier this week.
The trio will join Phantom's trading and data teams, according to Phantom CEO Brandon Millman.
The move comes after Ventuals announced earlier this month it was winding down and joining another project within the Hyperliquid ecosystem, ending one of the exchange's most prominent experiments in trading private-company valuations onchain.
Perpetual futures have evolved from a crypto-native innovation into one of the industry's most important products. They are a type of derivative that allows investors to speculate on future price movements without putting an expiration date on that contract, allowing it to be held as long as the investor wants. Their around-the-clock trading, high liquidity and ability to track virtually any asset have made them a popular vehicle for everything from crypto speculation to bets on private companies and commodities.
The race is also spreading beyond crypto. Last month, prediction market operator Kalshi launched its own perpetual futures business after regulatory approval, joining exchanges betting that always-on derivatives will become a larger part of financial markets.
For Phantom, the hires are part of a broader push into trading.
Best known as one of crypto's largest self-custody wallets, Phantom has steadily expanded beyond asset storage into swaps, staking and derivatives as wallets increasingly compete to become full-service financial apps rather than simple interfaces for holding tokens.
The company said it has become the largest distribution partner in the Hyperliquid ecosystem and plans to deepen its focus on perpetual futures.
"Open markets have become a major focus for us," Millman wrote. "We've gone deep on perps, and we intend to go deeper."
Millman described Hyperliquid as "one of the best examples anywhere of what open markets make possible," pointing to its global liquidity and transparent onchain infrastructure.
Bringing on the Ventuals team will help Phantom accelerate its efforts to build trading products around the ecosystem, he said.
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Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
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The Solana wallet is bringing on the three-person team behind a pre-IPO perpetuals platform, deepening its push into derivatives.
Phantom, the largest Solana wallet by market share, said the team behind Ventuals is joining the company this week, weeks after the Hyperliquid-based perpetuals venue shut down.
The hires are Ventuals co-founders Alvin Hsia and Emily Hsia, along with engineer Aris Samad, Phantom said in an announcement on its X account and a company blog post. The deal is not a purchase of the company or its product.
Ventuals wound down its onchain pre-IPO trading platform in mid-June, reporting more than $650 million in lifetime trading volume and over 500,000 HYPE raised across its run.
The move folds talent from one of Hyperliquid's earliest pre-IPO perpetuals builders into a consumer wallet that has been expanding aggressively into derivatives. Phantom added in-wallet perpetual futures, powered by Hyperliquid, in July 2025, and has since extended into equity and pre-IPO-style markets. Hiring the Ventuals founders gives Phantom people who built and operated their own markets on Hyperliquid.
HYPE, the token underpinning Hyperliquid, traded around $65, down about 2% over 24 hours, roughly in line with Bitcoin's 2.8% slide over the same period, and up about 6% over the past week, according to CoinGecko.
Phantom has not said what the Ventuals founders will build at the company or whether the hire signals a deeper move into pre-IPO or equity perpetuals.
A Team With Hyperliquid PedigreeVentuals described itself as the first onchain derivatives protocol for private, pre-IPO company valuations, with each market tracking a synthetic price rather than a claim on shares. Alvin Hsia was the company's chief executive and Emily Hsia its chief technology officer; both previously worked at Goldfinch and Airbnb, and earlier co-founded a project called Shadow.
The team built its markets through Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework, which lets outside developers deploy and run their own perpetual-futures markets backed by a HYPE stake. Ventuals' flagship contracts let traders take leveraged positions on the valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic, neither of which is publicly traded. In the wind-down, those markets were frozen at their trailing 24-hour average prices and settled, and the team confirmed there would be no Ventuals token.
Phantom's Derivatives PushPhantom is the dominant wallet in the Solana ecosystem, with roughly 39% of Solana wallet market share and 15 million to 20 million monthly active users, and a $3 billion valuation set in a January 2025 Series C led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm. The wallet has moved well beyond storage, adding swaps, staking, a prediction-market feature and, since mid-2025, perpetuals.
Phantom's perps product runs on Hyperliquid and surpassed $10 billion in cumulative trading volume within months of its July 2025 launch, the company has said. It has since added equity perpetuals deployed through HIP-3. The Ventuals founders' background in deploying and running such markets maps directly onto that roadmap, though Phantom did not detail the team's specific roles.
HYPE got its first U.S. exchange-traded fund in May, ran 16 straight days of inflows, then saw money walk out the door. The ETF is a new demand channel, but the first outflow is the first test of it.
Summary
Hyperliquid (HYPE) trades in the mid-$60s as of late June 2026, roughly 14% below its $76.67 record set on June 16, with a market cap near $14 billion to $16 billion and a fully diluted valuation around $60 billion. The Bitwise HYPE ETF launched on May 14, 2026, giving regulated investors a wrapper for HYPE exposure, after Bitwise had already listed a Hyperliquid staking product in Europe in April. The fund logged 16 consecutive days of inflows before its first daily outflow of nearly $3 million on June 5, a small figure in dollars but a notable turn in the early demand story. HYPE’s core engine is a buyback that routes 97% of protocol fees into purchasing and burning the token, which has retired over $1 billion of HYPE and pulled circulating supply below 300 million, working against a roughly 1.2 million monthly unlock to insiders. Forecasts run from Coinpedia’s high-$30s average to Arthur Hayes at $150, with prediction markets leaning toward HYPE clearing $80 by year-end, so the ETF flow and the buyback-versus-unlock balance, not any single target, will decide the path. In May 2026, Hyperliquid crossed a line that most tokens never reach: it got its own U.S. exchange-traded fund. The Bitwise HYPE ETF gave ordinary brokerage accounts and institutions a regulated way to hold exposure to one of the most talked-about assets in crypto.
For 16 trading days, the money flowed in. Then, on June 5, it reversed, with the fund posting its first daily outflow of close to $3 million. The amount was tiny next to HYPE’s multibillion-dollar market cap, but the symbolism was real, and crypto.news flagged the turn at the time.
This piece looks at HYPE’s price through the lens of that ETF and its first outflow, which is a different question from whether HYPE can reach $100. It covers what the Bitwise fund changed, what the early outflow signals, the buyback engine the ETF flows into, the unlock overhang pulling the other way, the regulatory cloud overhead, where the chart sits, and what analysts and prediction markets expect. It closes with bull, base, and bear scenarios and a short FAQ.
The Bitwise ETF and why it mattered The Bitwise HYPE ETF debuted on May 14, 2026, pitched as targeted exposure to the infrastructure behind on-chain derivatives. It was not Bitwise’s first Hyperliquid product. In April, the firm listed a Hyperliquid staking exchange-traded product, BHYP, on Deutsche Boerse’s Xetra venue in Europe, one of a growing suite of staking vehicles.
Bitwise also leaned into Hyperliquid’s own transparency ethos, committing to publish the ETF’s wallet addresses so investors could verify the fund’s holdings on-chain rather than take them on trust.
The reason an ETF matters for price is access. A token that previously required a self-custody wallet or an offshore exchange suddenly becomes reachable through a regulated product that fits inside retirement accounts and institutional mandates. That widens the pool of potential buyers and, in theory, adds a steady bid that is less reactive than crypto-native flows.
For HYPE, which already carried a large following, the ETF was a credibility marker as much as a demand channel: it signaled that a serious asset manager judged the token investable enough to wrap and sell.
The catch is that an ETF is a pipe, not a pump. It makes buying easier, but it does not create demand on its own. The flows that move through it can run in either direction, and that is exactly what the first month showed.
The first outflow, and what it signals For 16 straight sessions after launch, the Bitwise HYPE ETF took in money. That streak was the bullish read in action: regulated demand arriving day after day, exactly the steady bid the ETF was supposed to deliver. Then on June 5, the fund recorded its first daily outflow, nearly $3 million leaving in a single session. In dollar terms, it was almost nothing against a market cap in the tens of billions. As a signal, it carried more weight than its size.
The outflow is best read as the first test of the ETF demand story rather than its failure. It coincided with HYPE pulling back from its mid-June record and the broader market sliding into a risk-off, extreme-fear posture, so some of the selling was almost certainly market-wide rather than HYPE-specific. But it punctured the clean narrative of one-directional institutional accumulation. ETF flows, it turned out, would ebb and flow with sentiment like everything else, and that makes them a variable to track instead of a guaranteed tailwind.
For the forecast, the practical point is that ETF flow is now one of the clearest real-time gauges of institutional appetite for HYPE. A return to sustained net inflows would confirm the bull thesis that regulated demand is building. A pattern of choppy or net-negative flows would suggest the early enthusiasm has cooled, and that the price has to lean on its other engines instead.
The buyback engine the ETF flows into What makes HYPE structurally unusual is where its trading fees go. Roughly 97% of the protocol’s fees feed an Assistance Fund that continuously buys HYPE on the open market and burns it. This is not a promise of future buybacks; it is a live mechanism funded by real activity. Cumulative buybacks have passed $1 billion; the program has burned around 4.17% of total supply, pushing circulating supply below 300 million tokens. The platform’s daily revenue has run near $2.5 million, HyperEVM transaction fees have set records, and cumulative trading volume has crossed $4.15 trillion.
The ETF and the buyback connect in a way that matters for price. The buyback is powered by trading volume, because more volume means more fees and therefore more HYPE bought and burned. The ETF, by widening the holder base and supporting the token’s profile, can indirectly feed the system if it helps sustain attention and activity on the platform.
The product expansion compounds the same way: the FOMO app launched on June 11, letting users trade perpetuals across equities, pre-IPO stocks, crypto, indices, and commodities from one interface, while HIP-3 and HIP-4 push the platform toward prediction markets and options. Each new market is a potential new source of the fees that drive the burn.
The bull case in one line is that this engine eats its own supply faster than the unlocks can replace it. The more the platform grows, the more it buys back, and the thinner the float becomes. The ETF is one more on-ramp pointed at that engine.
The unlock overhang pulling the other way Against the buyback sits the supply schedule. Only about 27% of HYPE’s roughly 953 million to 1 billion maximum supply is in circulation, which means a large share is still locked and scheduled to come to market over years. Roughly 1.2 million HYPE per month is distributed to team members and early backers, a steady stream of new sellable supply that the buyback has to absorb just to stay even.
The fully diluted valuation near $60 billion is the number the skeptics point to: it implies a very large eventual supply, and the gap between the circulating market cap and the FDV is the overhang the market has to digest over time.
This is the tug-of-war that defines HYPE. The buyback pulls supply off the market and burns it; the unlocks push new supply on. ETF inflows can tilt the balance toward demand; ETF outflows tilt it back. The reason forecasts vary so wildly is that the outcome depends on which side wins, and that in turn depends on whether platform volume keeps growing fast enough to keep the burn ahead of the unlocks. No model can know that in advance, which is why honest analysis tracks the variables instead of betting the house on a single price.
The regulatory cloud HYPE carries a regulatory question mark that the ETF does not erase. In one episode, Singapore’s monetary authority added Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert List, a reminder that a permissionless derivatives venue draws scrutiny from regulators who worry about access and oversight.
Hyperliquid also operates in a legal gray zone in some jurisdictions, including restrictions affecting users in the United States, and the traditional derivatives establishment has been pressing regulators to bring platforms like it under tighter rules, citing concerns about manipulation and permissionless markets.
For the price, regulation cuts both ways. A clear, favorable framework would remove an overhang and could unlock broader access, especially in the United States where the platform’s reach is constrained. A crackdown, or even sustained uncertainty, could cap institutional participation and weigh on the very ETF demand the bull case depends on. The ETF brings HYPE closer to the regulated world, which is a benefit when the rules are friendly and a liability when they are not.
Where the chart and the price sit HYPE trades in the mid-$60s as of late June, roughly 14% below the $76.67 all-time high set on June 16. The price history is a story of violent moves: the token launched near $7.56 in November 2024, climbed to about $35 by year-end, peaked near $59 in September 2025, then corrected hard to the $21 to $26 range in early 2026 with a February low around $21. From there it built a long base and broke out through the $50 to $52 zone in June, ran to its record, and pulled back. That $50 to $52 area now reads as structural support, the floor the breakout set.
Hyperliquid price chart | Source: crypto.news The short-term picture is post-record consolidation. After a sharp run to a new high, the token is digesting gains, with momentum cooled from its peak. The bullish structural read is that the correction is happening while the platform’s fundamentals, volume, revenue, and fees keep setting records, which is the opposite of a top built on fading activity.
The bearish read is that a second failed push at the high would raise doubts and open the door back toward the low-$50s support. Reclaiming and holding above the record is what would put price discovery back in play.
What analysts and prediction markets expect Third-party forecasts for HYPE span an enormous range, which reflects the genuine uncertainty in the buyback-versus-unlock outcome. These are external projections, offered as a spread of views instead of targets this publication endorses.
On the cautious side, Coinpedia’s 2026 model runs from roughly $19.85 to $54.87 with an average near $37, and Cryptopolitan points to a peak around $58 with a separate analysis near a $40 average. In the middle, several views see a return toward or past the all-time high if adoption continues.
At the bullish extreme, Arthur Hayes has floated $150 by August 2026, premised on the buyback, organic volume growth, and the prediction-market and options expansion all firing together, while Multicoin Capital argues for $319 by 2028 on the thesis that the market underrates Hyperliquid as an emerging “everything exchange” instead of just a perpetuals venue. Prediction markets in mid-2026 leaned toward HYPE clearing $80 before year-end, with a smaller share betting on $100 and bets on a drop below $50 carrying meaningful odds.
The spread, from the high $30s to $150 in the same year, is the point. It is not noise; it is an honest map of how much depends on volume, flows, and regulation. The ETF is one input into that map, not the whole territory.
How HYPE’s ETF compares with the Bitcoin and Ether funds The clearest way to read the Bitwise HYPE ETF is against the template set by the Bitcoin and Ether funds that came before it. Those products showed the playbook: a regulated wrapper opens a corridor for capital that cannot or will not touch spot crypto directly, and once that corridor exists, an asset stops being treated as a fringe speculation and starts being treated as an allocatable holding.
The Bitcoin funds in particular showed how powerful steady, structural inflows can be when they arrive day after day from advisers and institutions instead of from reactive crypto traders.
HYPE inherits that template, but with important differences that cut against a clean comparison. It is far younger and far smaller than Bitcoin or Ether, which makes its ETF flows more volatile and more capable of moving the underlying price in both directions. Its fully diluted valuation near $60 billion sits well above its circulating market cap, so the supply overhang is larger and more present than it was for the major assets when their funds launched. And HYPE’s regulatory standing is less settled, which caps how aggressively some institutions can participate.
The European staking product, BHYP on the Xetra venue, adds a second access point and a yield angle that the early Bitcoin funds lacked, but it does not change the core asymmetry: a smaller, younger token feels ETF flows more sharply than a trillion-dollar asset does.
The takeaway is that the ETF is a genuine structural positive that should not be mistaken for a guaranteed one. For Bitcoin, the funds eventually delivered sustained net demand. For HYPE, the first month already showed flows can reverse, so the corridor is open but the traffic through it is not yet proven to run one way.
What to watch: the metrics that decide HYPE For readers tracking HYPE instead of reacting to each candle, a handful of metrics will signal which scenario is unfolding. The first and most direct is ETF flow direction. Sustained net inflows would confirm the bull thesis that regulated demand is building, while a pattern of choppy or negative flows, in the vein of the June 5 outflow, would suggest the early enthusiasm has cooled, and the price must lean on its other engines.
The second is weekly trading volume and fee revenue, because those power the buyback. As long as volume keeps setting records and fees keep feeding the Assistance Fund, the burn stays strong, and supply keeps tightening. A slowdown in volume would weaken the buyback at the worst possible time, just as fresh unlocks arrive.
The third is the unlock pace itself, roughly 1.2 million HYPE a month to insiders, and whether the buyback is retiring tokens faster than the schedule releases them. The fourth is regulation: any movement on the U.S. access question or follow-through on alerts like the one from Singapore’s authority would shift the institutional calculus quickly.
The fifth is the chart structure around two levels. Reclaiming and holding above the $76.67 record would put HYPE back into price discovery and validate the optimistic targets, while losing the $50 to $52 breakout support would confirm the post-record correction has turned into something deeper.
Tracked together, these five say more about HYPE’s path than any single forecast, because they map directly onto the buyback-versus-unlock tug-of-war that the ETF flows now sit on top of. The ETF made HYPE easier to buy. These metrics decide whether buyers keep showing up.
Bull, base, and bear scenarios for HYPE The scenarios below combine the ETF flow story with the buyback, the unlocks, and the regulatory backdrop. They are illustrative ranges drawn from the external forecasts and current structure, not guarantees.
Bull case In the bull scenario, ETF flows turn decisively net positive again after the early wobble, confirming that regulated demand is building. Platform volume keeps climbing as the FOMO app, prediction markets, and options add fee sources, so the buyback accelerates, and the burn stays ahead of the roughly 1.2 million monthly unlocks. Regulation breaks favorably, easing the access overhang. HYPE reclaims $76.67, enters price discovery, and runs toward the optimistic targets in the $90 to $150 range that Telegaon and Arthur Hayes describe, with the “everything exchange” thesis supporting a higher multi-year path. This case needs volume growth to outrun the unlocks and the regulatory cloud to lift.
Base case In the base scenario, the ETF settles into choppy flows that neither confirm nor break the demand story, and the buyback roughly offsets the unlocks without overwhelming them. HYPE holds its $50 to $52 breakout support and trades in a wide band beneath the record for much of the year, with the average landing somewhere around the high $30s to high $50s that the cautious Coinpedia and Cryptopolitan models bracket, punctuated by sharp moves in both directions as sentiment shifts. The fundamentals stay strong, but the supply overhang and regulatory uncertainty cap sustained upside. This is the “strong business, range-bound token” outcome.
Bear case In the bear scenario, ETF outflows persist and signal that institutional enthusiasm has cooled, while a risk-off market and any regulatory escalation, building on the MAS alert and U.S. access concerns, weigh on demand. Platform volume slows, the buyback weakens just as fresh unlocks arrive, and the FDV gap reasserts itself. HYPE loses the $50 to $52 support and slides toward the low-$30s or below, in line with the bottom of the cautious forecast range. In this case, the buyback cannot keep pace with the unlocks, and the ETF that was supposed to be a tailwind becomes a visible scoreboard for fading demand.
Frequently Asked Questions When did the Bitwise HYPE ETF launch? The Bitwise HYPE ETF debuted on May 14, 2026, offering regulated exposure to Hyperliquid’s token. Bitwise had earlier listed a Hyperliquid staking product, BHYP, on Deutsche Börse’s Xetra venue in Europe in April 2026. The firm also committed to publishing the fund’s wallet addresses so investors could verify holdings on-chain.
What was the first HYPE ETF outflow, and does it matter? After 16 consecutive days of inflows, the Bitwise HYPE ETF recorded its first daily outflow of nearly $3 million on June 5, 2026. The dollar amount was small relative to HYPE’s market cap, and it coincided with a broad risk-off pullback, so it was not a HYPE-specific collapse. It matters as a signal: it showed ETF flows will move with sentiment, making them a variable to track instead of a guaranteed source of demand.
How does the HYPE buyback work? Roughly 97% of Hyperliquid’s protocol trading fees flow into an Assistance Fund that buys HYPE on the open market and burns it. Cumulative buybacks have passed $1 billion, around 4.17% of supply has been burned, and circulating supply has fallen below 300 million. The buyback is powered by trading volume, so more platform activity means more buying and burning.
What is the main force working against HYPE’s price? The main counterweight is the token unlock schedule. Only about 27% of the maximum supply circulates, and roughly 1.2 million HYPE per month is released to team members and early backers. That steady new supply, plus a fully diluted valuation near $60 billion, is what the buyback has to absorb. The balance between buyback and unlocks is the central question for the price.
Is HYPE affected by regulation? Yes. Singapore’s monetary authority placed Hyperliquid on its Investor Alert List, and the platform operates in a legal gray zone in some jurisdictions, including restrictions affecting U.S. users. Favorable rules could broaden access and support ETF demand, while a crackdown or prolonged uncertainty could limit institutional participation and weigh on the price.
What do forecasts say HYPE could reach? External forecasts vary widely. Coinpedia’s 2026 range runs from about $20 to $55 with an average near $37, and Cryptopolitan points to a peak around $58. More bullish views include Arthur Hayes at $150 by August 2026 and Multicoin Capital at $319 by 2028. Prediction markets leaned toward HYPE clearing $80 by year-end. The wide spread reflects how much depends on volume, ETF flows, and regulation.
Disclaimer: This article is for information purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Cryptocurrency prices are highly volatile, and price predictions are speculative estimates that may not occur. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any asset. Always do your own research and consider consulting a licensed professional before making financial decisions. Figures are accurate as of June 30, 2026, and will change.
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Although Hyperliquid [HYPE] sits 15% below its $76k high recorded a week ago, the market still exhibits strong bullish pressure. In fact, the altcoin successfully held $60 and bounced back to a local high of $67 before slightly retracing.
At press time, Hyperliquid traded around $65, up 4.58% on the daily charts. At the same time, the volume climbed 88%, reflecting heightened market activity.
A whale offloads $5.18M in HYPE After HYPE rebounded from its recent slip to $60, some whales have turned to profit-taking.
According to Lookonchain, a whale linked to a16z deposited 77,402 HYPE, worth $5.18 million, into OKX and Bybit. After previously accumulating HYPE aggressively, the whale now appears to be rotating into other assets.
Shortly after selling, Lookonchain reported that the whale purchased $782,000 worth of ETH, signaling a shift in preference toward Ethereum, which continues to trade well below its peak price.
Market demand remains steady Although some whales are cashing out, the broader market remains optimistic. As a result, investors have continued to accumulate HYPE.
Looking at the Exchange Activity, buyers still dominate the market. Over the past week, for example, Spot Netflow has remained negative, dropping 155% to -$32.8 million.
Source: CoinGlass With Netflow holding negative for a sustained period, it suggests that investors are mostly bullish and continue to accumulate. Often, higher buying pressure strengthens the market, leading to more gains on the price charts.
It’s important to note that retail traders largely drive the accumulation. A look at Spot Retail Activity shows that retailers have remained increasingly active.
Source: CryptoQuant Over the past week, the Spot Market saw ‘Too Many Retail’ orders for five days and only recorded ‘Few Retail’ orders on the last two days.
What’s next for HYPE? Retail investors continue to drive hyperliquid momentum, which is slightly bullish overall.
Source: TradingView With the ADX rising alongside the +DI, upside momentum currently holds the advantage. This suggests the indicator points toward continued upward movement. If momentum persists, Hyperliquid could retest the $70 level.
However, if reduced retail participation signals weaker activity, the $70 resistance may remain difficult to break, potentially leading the altcoin to drop back toward $60.
Final Summary A whale deposited 77,402 HYPE, worth $5.18 million, into OKX and Bybit. Hyperliquid market structure remains bullish, with retailer traders holding the market, seeking a move above $70.
