🔥 HUGE: Hyperliquid is emerging as Wall Street's go-to 24/7 trading venue for perpetual futures on everything from crude oil to pre-IPO giants, WSJ reports.
1/ $HYPE is one of the clearest examples of DeFi competing with centralized exchanges on product and economics, not just ideology
Can an onchain exchange become one of the major venues for global trading?
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Hyperliquid, a decentralized crypto platform, is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The exchange has emerged this year as a go-to spot for Wall Street’s weekend warriors. https://t.co/3RFisC8oso
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We welcome today’s CFTC actions: approval of the first U.S.-listed perpetual derivatives contract, an accompanying Commission policy statement on the listing of perpetual derivatives, related interpretive guidance and no-action relief from the Market Participants Division, and a Staff Advisory on 24/7 Trading, Clearing, and Settlement, as a long-overdue acknowledgment that perpetual derivatives are a legitimate and essential tool for price discovery and risk management.
For too long, regulatory ambiguity drove these markets offshore, depriving American traders and institutions of access to regulated venues and undermining U.S. competitiveness in the global derivatives markets.
Today’s actions chart a new path forward. We look forward to engaging closely with the Commission to ensure that the framework it develops is workable not only for centralized intermediaries, but for the onchain protocols where the most significant perpetuals activity actually occurs.
Jeff Sprecher, founder and CEO of $ICE (owns the NYSE) on Hyperliquid:
"This Hyperliquid that we're talking -- if you haven't heard about it, it's bigger than NASDAQ, okay? It's 11 people. You look at it, you're like, wow, that's pretty something."
If it wasn't clear before, hyperliquid:native has grown far beyond crypto. The incumbents have noticed, are paying close attention, and even spending time with the team
Bernstein excerpt below and worth the read imo:
ICE's Jeff Sprecher (founder of @NYSE) on Hyperliquid
'It's bigger than NASDAQ. It's 11 people. You look at it, you're like, wow, that's pretty something.'"
On the founders:
"The people that have built that exchange are extremely smart... I salute these guys for doing it. I mean, these are some very, very smart people."
On ignoring it:
"I don't think you can ignore it."
On the competitive threat:
"It's attracted a lot of market makers and other market participants, early adopter market participants that would ordinarily be in our traditional markets are there exploring this technology."
On the weekend oil trading dynamic:
"They've been trading oil on the weekends when our traditional oil markets are closed. And it just so happens in this time of conflict in the Middle East, there have been a lot of activity that happens on the weekend. So it's gotten a lot of interest."
On institutional clients watching regardless:
"While most of our institutional clients are not trading on blockchain... they're all watching it, and they're watching the price discovery. Whether they admit it or not, it is being part of the zeitgeist."
On the SpaceX listing being a watershed moment:
"I think regulators and market participants are going to say either it was irrelevant or it was highly relevant."
On retail + 24/7 markets:
"We're just going to have to get used to the interplay of retail and professional trading 24/7, 365."
Full transcript here: https://t.co/Z8O7KFUEu5
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Jeff Sprecher, CEO of ICE (owner of the NYSE), on Hyperliquid:
“This Hyperliquid that we’re talking - f you haven’t heard about it, it’s bigger than NASDAQ, okay?”
“We’re not freaked out about it. We’re actually talking to these people and learning about it.”
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Excited to see everyone come together for this historic moment. AQAv2 brings the protocol-aligned stablecoin model that @Nativemarkets trail-blazed to USDC with @Coinbase and @Circle's commitment to Hyperliquid. The community no longer has to choose between liquidity and alignment.
Our industry will face adversity as we continue to grow. It gives me hope seeing titans of the industry come together to build for users and bring all of finance onchain.
This is the story of Hyperliquid, the most profitable startup per employee on earth, told from a guarded office in Singapore.
Last year, its team of 11 generated $900 million in profit. It's 3 years old, has never taken a dollar of venture capital, and is beginning to change how century-old markets work.
Its founder, Jeffrey Yan (@chameleon_jeff), had never taken a physics class when he picked up a textbook at 16. Two years later, he won gold at the International Physics Olympiad. In 2019, he started trading with $10,000 from a living room in Puerto Rico—working off a television because he didn't own a monitor.
Within 3 years, he was running one of the largest anonymous crypto trading firms.
Then he shut it down. Yan was rich and free, but he had spent years inside crypto, watching it betray itself. Bitcoin's central premise was decentralization. Yet the biggest exchanges were centralized. Crypto kept reintroducing the dependence on trust it was built to eliminate. He set out to create what should have existed.
Hyperliquid is a blockchain with a trading exchange on top, and anyone can build on it. Yan's vision is to house all of finance. In 3 years, it has done over $4 trillion in volume. And in the past few months, it has begun to outgrow crypto.
Markets for oil, silver, and the S&P 500 now trade on Hyperliquid around the clock, weekends included, and are growing roughly 40% week on week. When the US and Israel bombed Iran on a Saturday in February, Hyperliquid was the venue traders turned to.
Hyperliquid's success has cost Yan his freedom. He works out of a secret office in Singapore and cannot travel without two bodyguards. Even the team's housekeeper doesn't know what they do.
In January, @domcooke spent a week at their office. Read his profile on Yan and @HyperliquidX below.
🚨FIRST EVER HYPERLIQUID ETF CLOSE TO LAUNCH
Bitwise has filed a second amended application for what could be the first-ever $HYPE ETF, a late-stage step that often signals approval is near.
The filing confirms key details like ticker and fees, and HYPE has surged on the news, now up nearly 200% over the past year.