Coinbase has announced its plan to activate AQAv2 on USDC as the treasury deployer, with Circle serving as the technical deployer responsible for CCTP and native cross-chain infrastructure. Both Coinbase and Circle have committed to stake HYPE to activate AQAv2. As part of this transition, Native Markets has agreed to terms granting Coinbase the right to purchase the USDH brand assets. With Coinbase, in its role as treasury deployer, sharing the vast majority of reserve yield revenue with the protocol, USDC will become the most aligned stablecoin on Hyperliquid. As a result, canonical outcome (HIP-4) markets will use USDC as the quote asset in a future network upgrade.
User and builder feedback has been consistent that fragmentation leads to degraded experience; now, the community no longer needs to choose between liquidity and protocol alignment.
The pioneering work of Native Markets in launching USDH as the first production-scale stablecoin sharing yield directly with a protocol in a purely onchain implementation made AQAv2 possible. The learnings and mechanics pioneered by USDH will live on in AQAv2.
The Hyper Foundation will give grants to eligible HIP-3 deployers, HIP-1 deployers, and builders who integrated USDH, supporting teams through migration over the next months. These grants reflect an ongoing commitment to teams who choose to build on Hyperliquid and align with the protocol. USDH markets are fully functional but will sunset over time. USDH remains fully backed, with feeless conversions to USDC and fiat available to users during this transition.
$HYPE holder distribution right now:
0–10 HYPE → ~40–45%
10–100 HYPE → ~30–35%
100–1,000 HYPE → ~15–20%
1,000–10,000 HYPE → ~4–6%
10,000–100,000 HYPE → ~1–2%
100,000+ HYPE → <0.5%
If you own more then 1000 HYPE you are in the top 5% of holders.
Still early.
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HIP-4 is now available for mainnet-level bug bounties. If you are not aware, this is usually the tell that mainnet deployment is imminent.
For reference, HIP-3 became available for mainnet bounties on September 25th and officially deployed less than 3 weeks later.
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I strongly believe there is a meaningful pool of latent demand for the $HYPE token that remains sidelined for now, but will gradually come off the sidelines over the course of the year:
- New $HYPE buyers waiting for entries who may not have liked the original thesis, but are now sold on HIP-3
- TradFi shops who are paying close attention to Hyperliquid, but are still slow to discover the token
- “Sophisticated Retail” investors who focus mainly on stocks but are on fintwit and reddit and read Citrini.
- Liquid / venture funds who have bags but have yet to size *convincingly* and adopt a multi-year view
- Ppl who have yet to realize that Hyperliquid will also be one of the largest prediction markets
- Hyperliquid Strategies
These forces should be driving a sustainable bid throughout the year while the short term traders do their thing.
The reason some of you may think this is overowned is cause CT is very loud about it. CT is like a few hundred thousand real people.
There’s a whole world outside of CT and crypto liquid funds and this is probably the only new token that will appeal to them.
Also no one I’ve spoken to outside of crypto thinks this should be valued with a median S&P multiple given the potential growth profile lmao. Hilarious that we are midcurving the one killer onchain business the industry has managed to put out.
A thread on why *insert incumbent broker / exchange will not be able to start innovating like prime steve jobs and outcompete Hyperliquid.
The Incompatability Problem:
Huge congratulations to TradeXYZ and S&P for this historic partnership. I'm honored that these teams choose to build on Hyperliquid.
Seeing official S&P500 perpetual futures launch exclusively on Hyperliquid is a validation of everyone's past years of hard work: global access to decentralized finance, perpetual futures as 24/7 price discovery, and Hyperliquid upgrading the existing financial stack to house all of finance.
The S&P500 is synonymous with "the market," a single number that captures the essence of the largest economy in the world. Looking forward to tracking the world's most important financial gauge 24/7 on the most liquid permissionless markets.