Today, the @CFTC took an important step toward bringing regulated onchain markets to the United States: firms can now keep required records on a public blockchain without being required to maintain a separate offchain copy.
The CFTC also clarified that firms can invest customer funds in tokenized versions of investments that are already permitted.
That matters because a regulated firm can now use a public blockchain as its system of record, where every entry is transparent, tamper-evident, and verifiable by anyone. Those are the assurances the CFTC’s recordkeeping rules exist to provide, and public blockchains deliver them by design.
In July, HPC and @phantom asked the CFTC to provide this clarity. Today, the CFTC delivered.
[SECURITY NOTICE] Bitget Hot Wallet Incident — September 24, 2026
At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget's security systems detected unauthorized transfers from some of our hot wallets. Our security team activated emergency response protocols immediately.
What we have confirmed:
-Estimated funds affected: approximately $351.6 million
-Cold wallets remain fully secure. Bitget operates a three-tier wallet architecture — the breach contained only a portion of the hot wallet and warm wallet layers.
-User funds are safe. The full amount of this loss falls within the coverage of Bitget's User Protection Fund, which currently holds over $464 million
Actions we have taken:
-Emergency response team activated within minutes of detection
-Abnormal transfer addresses identified, flagged, and reported
-Withdrawals temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure, pending security review
-Law enforcement and on-chain security firms have been formally notified and are engaged
What this means for you:
-Your account balances are accurate and your assets are protected
-Deposits and trading remain fully operational
Withdrawals are temporarily paused and will be restored as soon as the security review is complete
-What comes next: We will provide updates on an hourly basis across this channel and all official platforms. A full incident report — including root cause analysis and corrective actions — will be published within 24 hours. We will not speculate on the attack vector until the investigation is complete.
Bitget has navigated multiple market cycles. We will not run from this. Every dollar and every decision will be accounted for, transparently and in full.
Updates will be posted here and across all official Bitget channels as they become available.
— Gracy Chen, CEO, Bitget
CFTC is not playing around.
Wasting no time, yesterday they filed what appears to be a proposed rule for interagency review entitled “Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets.”
Things are going to move fast in DC.
https://t.co/LoX0rywDsj
Most tech giants in the 2000s built their infrastructure and product as one entangled unit. Amazon had the foresight to separate out AWS as an API layer, of which Amazon retail was the first of many users. Today, AWS generates more profit than all of Amazon's other business lines combined.
Hyperliquid is built with the same philosophy. Housing all of finance requires thoughtfully designed, open financial primitives. Each primitive should obey the Unix principle of "Do one thing and do it well." Talented builders then have the foundation to chain these together to create magical applications.
HyperCore borrowing is an example to highlight this philosophy in action.
Most other platforms implement portfolio margin by marking an account's collateral to market value with an LTV haircut, creating borrowed assets without an explicit lender. This system is simpler to implement, but misses a golden opportunity for composability.
Hyperliquid instead begins with a borrow/lend protocol on HyperCore. Every borrowed asset is sourced from a supplier, so risk is isolated within the borrow/lend primitive instead of platform-wide. HyperCore's portfolio margin system is implemented as an orchestration layer that composes borrow/lend, with other primitives such as perps, spot, and outcome trading.
This decomposition has several nice corollaries:
1. Today's announcement of manual borrowing is not a new feature, but simply an extension of the underlying primitive. Borrowers on day one have access to 400M and growing of supplied liquidity.
2. Portfolio margin users earn interest on their idle stablecoin collateral. This is not a new feature, but a natural byproduct of composing trading with lending.
3. System safety is easier to reason about when perp and borrow/lend margining are independent.
In the same way that math theorems almost prove themselves when the right abstractions are defined, composable designs just feel right.
Manual borrows are live on Hyperliquid
Portfolio margin and manual borrows use the same underlying HyperCore infrastructure, with $269M in assets borrowed today.
Users can supply HYPE and BTC as collateral to borrow quote assets (USDC and USDT). Borrowed quote assets pay interest, and supplied quote assets earn interest, with rates set by utilization.
We didn't get Clarity this week, but we did get certainty about the path forward for crypto regulation in the United States.
The CFTC is the right regulator for crypto market structure, and this particular CFTC is more than up to the challenge. Exciting days ahead.
The Clarity Act is dead.
Before the post-mortems and the planning sessions begin, a note of thanks.
Many of you worked extremely hard on this bill over the last 18 months. You fought harder than most people will ever know to make sure we had a good product that actually worked for crypto. It required countless hours of research and analysis; endless calls and meetings to build consensus; rewriting the same sections over and over to find common ground; winning points and making concessions one by one in pursuit of an ambitious goal.
Those efforts were a success. The bill did not pass, but neither did you compromise on your principles or the ultimate goal. It would have been easy to strike deal at any point by simply giving up and rolling over, and you were asked to do so every single day for 18 months. You did not. Your strength, courage, and confidence won the day. You should be proud.
Many of us said since the start of this process that no bill is better than a bad bill, and by that metric, today is a victory. The Senate considered a good bill today, not a perfect one but a good one, and turned it down. The raw politics of the United States during an election year meant a good deal was not on the table. That's okay.
Crypto will be fine without the Clarity Act. We are lucky to have two agencies, the SEC and CFTC, with all of the excellent staff and authority they need to do the job. They're ready to be unleashed, and so they shall be. The future of crypto policy is bright.
Thank you all for your hard work. Breathe a sigh of relief, take a break, and get ready for what's next. We've only just gotten started.
Introducing Events by trade[XYZ].
With Events, we’re advancing our vision of Hyperliquid as the universal exchange—a single, composable system for trading financial assets and real-world outcomes.
A user can deposit spot BTC, borrow USDC through portfolio margin, open a pre-ipo SpaceX perp position, hedge an upcoming SK Hynix earnings event with an events market, and pick the US Open winner—all from a single unified account on trade[XYZ].
Events will span sports, politics, economics, and financial markets, with an expanding range of categories and contract formats.
Our initial Up/Down markets cover equities, commodities, and pre-IPOs, powered by the depth and liquidity of trade[XYZ] perpetuals on HIP-3. These perpetuals provide continuous price discovery and serve as the resolution source, so each contract is grounded in XYZ's liquid market prices rather than an external oracle.
"We have a window of opportunity here where we can actually move the needle and get these products into the United States in a regulated fashion, and then build up the most liquid markets in the world."
@jchervinsky on The Rollup. Full interview below.
Hyperliquid Is Set To Enter The US Market Imminently (Necessary Steps Explained) with @HyperliquidPC CEO @jchervinsky
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:03 The Press Conference Surprise
04:03 Founding The Hyperliquid Policy Center
07:45 Why Perps Beat Traditional Futures
11:00 CFTC Already Approved Perps
14:16 Crawl Walk Run Approach
20:06 One Shared Liquidity Venue
22:25 HIP-3* Markets Explained
31:37 The Silver Market Breakout
34:03 Stablecoins And The Genius Act
36:12 Circle & Hyperliquid USDC Deal
41:16 Bottom Up Vs Top Down Regulation