Hyperliquid's revenue model changed last week.
When you bridge $USDC to Hyperliquid, Circle mints it on HyperEVM. While it sits there, it earns yield.
That yield now goes into $HYPE buybacks. Around $500k a day (-> AQAv2)!
Before this, Hyperliquid only made money when people traded. Now it makes money on deposits sitting still.
All in, that's about 15.4 cents per dollar of margin annually. 2.8 of it arrives whether anyone trades or not.
And as the bullrun progresses, demand for leverage will increase. I expect rates on HL Earn to rise and pull more users in to farm the yield. That grows USDC TVL even further.
Trading revenue is cyclical. Reserve yield isn't.
@ThinkingUSD Well said. I agree. Literally only 1 KPI, and that's the long term PnL and nothing else matters.
Definitely not easy job, but refreshingly liberating from the pretension and social dynamics of people manipulating a workplace for their own gain.
Stablecoins are increasingly being spent by card swipe.
Crypto payment cards have gone from a novelty to more than $750 million in monthly spend. These cards let people pay with crypto anywhere traditional card networks are accepted. Behind the scenes, the crypto — stablecoins, overwhelmingly — gets converted to local currency at the point of sale, so the payments look like any other card transactions to merchants.
Crypto cardholders don’t require a traditional bank account. Depending on the program, users either deposit stablecoins with a card issuer, or hold them directly onchain through self-custody. Crypto cards expand people’s access to U.S. dollar accounts globally, and they offer a convenient way for stablecoin holders to transact.
@bryan_johnson (1) is there a way for normal people to get a reliable core body temperature reading with commonly available sensors?
(2) I use hot tub at 40°C water and assume water contact can heat body faster than dry hot air?