@Moya_2025 My claude has watched me actually solve problems for 6 months, way more signal than me reciting STAR answers on the spot.... Interviews just test improv skills, not work skills
1/@HyperliquidX just got Coinbase and Circle to stake HYPE and hand over ~$180M/year in USDC reserve yield.
The 8-month story of how it happened is more interesting than the headline.
2/First, the business model that makes this matter.
When you hold 1 USDC, Circle holds 1 real dollar somewhere. Circle parks that dollar in US Treasury bills earning ~4%. You get the stablecoin. Circle keeps the 4%.
That is how stablecoin issuers make money.
3/Hyperliquid earns trading fees and uses ~97% of them to buy back HYPE from the open market.
Every additional dollar of protocol revenue compresses HYPE supply. The token's price action is mechanically linked to how much money the protocol pulls in.
4/Now connect the two.
~$5B of USDC sits on Hyperliquid as trader collateral. At ~4% T-bill yields, that USDC generates roughly $200M a year in interest.
Pre-today, every dollar of that went to Circle and Coinbase. Hyperliquid earned zero on the float its own users posted.
5/In September 2025, Hyperliquid moved to fix that.
It opened a public bid (RFP) for the right to issue USDH, its own official stablecoin. Whoever won would replace USDC as the venue's default and share the reserve yield with the protocol.
Six teams submitted.
6/The offers, ranked by generosity:
– Paxos: 95-100% + $20M incentives
– Frax: 100%, "zero Frax take"
– Agora: 100% of net revenue
– Ethena: 95% + ≥$75M (withdrew Sept 11)
– Sky: 4.85% direct savings rate + $25M fund
– Native Markets: 50% to Assistance Fund
7/Native Markets — the least generous bidder — won with 71.47% of the validator vote.
A few facts about that win:
– The company was incorporated in early September 2025, days before the RFP
– 3 founders, no disclosed funding round
– Its onchain wallet was funded hours before the RFP was publicly posted
– Its proposal was submitted 90 minutes after the RFP went live
8/Dragonfly partner Haseeb Qureshi called the process "basically custom made for Native Markets" at the time. Agora's founder asked publicly what the point of the bidding even was.
The vote happened anyway. USDH launched September 24, 2025.
9/What happened to USDH over the next 8 months:
– Peak supply: $97.6M (March 2026)
– Supply cap raised to $500M
— utilization stayed at 18%
– USDC on Hyperliquid grew from ~$2B to ~$5B over the same period
– Hyperliquid Labs never deployed a canonical BTC-USDH or ETH-USDH trading pair
10/That last point is the one to sit with.
A stablecoin without major trading pairs is unusable. Traders can't post it as collateral against the assets they actually want to trade.
USDH was starved by its own parent protocol. The decision that capped USDH was made upstream, not by Native Markets.
11/Today, May 14, 2026: Native Markets agrees to grant Coinbase the right to purchase the USDH brand.
Coinbase becomes USDC's "treasury deployer" on Hyperliquid. Circle handles cross-chain plumbing. Both stake 500k HYPE.
~90% of the ~$200M/year USDC yield now goes to Hyperliquid.
12/One reading: USDH was never meant to succeed. It was a credible threat. Three signals:
– The least generous bid won: visible enough to threaten Circle, not generous enough to actually flip the market
– No canonical USDH trading pair: kept the threat alive, capped its scale
– 8-month exit with Coinbase buying the brand: graceful off-ramp
13/Another reading: USDH was a genuine attempt that didn't scale.
Native Markets exits with brand-asset compensation. Coinbase becomes deployer because at $5B float there is no other viable USDC partner.
Both readings fit the public facts. Pick yours.
14/Either way, the structural result is the same.
Bespoke app-stablecoins as a category: dYdX abandoned theirs, GMX never issued, GHO capped at ~$565M, crvUSD at ~$307M, USDH at ~$100M. Only Sky works — because Sky is a stablecoin protocol with apps attached, not the inverse.
15/Yield-sharing went from novel to table-stakes between November 2024 (Paxos USDG) and today (AQAv2). Eighteen months.
Coinbase and Circle's commercial agreement renews in August. The next protocol that runs an RFP will know exactly what its quote-asset slot is worth.
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@cb_doge Different context, the constraint disappears
Humans too, Nazis killed 6M Jews during WW2. Were they evil? But being told they were defending the nation, eliminating enemies...
We’re steered by authority, roles, culture
AI by prompts & context
Both just context executors