Coinbase is now the official deployer of @HyperliquidX's USDC treasury wallet.
We will be activating AQAv2 from the two addresses below:
0x4E5319dEb1072B01439EE674db5C321d11fd96F8
0xc20699185c15D0a2fD65779BB5d69f5b0B113c00
Fair critique, but I think it's the wrong way to judge Venice at this stage.
Crypto has become weird around value accrual. A lot of holders have been burned by tokens with no real business behind them, so everyone wants hard value accrual immediately. Then Hyperliquid comes along and returns a huge share of revenue to holders, and suddenly that becomes the benchmark.
But Hyperliquid is the exception, not the rule.
Most companies at Venice's stage should not be returning meaningful capital to anyone, whether equity holders or token holders. They should be reinvesting into growth. If Venice were burning a huge chunk of revenue today, I'd honestly think that was worse capital allocation, not better.
So yes, current burns are small. I agree. But I don't think the burn is supposed to be the demand source today. It's more of a signal that VVV is economically tied to the platform, and it gives the market an on-chain proxy for new paid sub adds, since each tier triggers a specific dollar burn that anyone can see.
The alignment piece matters too. Venice the company sits on tens of millions of VVV in treasury, so it benefits directly from VVV appreciation. Erik's history points the same direction. At ShapeShift, he took a shareholder-owned company and pushed it toward a token/community-owned model, with FOX holders governing platform economics and shareholders receiving FOX with no special privileges. And with Venice, he has explicitly said he wants to burn every last VVV token.
That does not make VVV equity, but it does show he's oriented toward token holders, not against them.
So I'd separate the critique into two questions.
Is current value accrual enough to support the token by itself? No. Agreed.
Is VVV economically linked to the platform in a way that can matter a lot more if Venice keeps scaling? I think yes.
The bet is on the trajectory, not today's burn rate. If we're back here in 12-18 months and Venice has scaled revenue meaningfully but burns still haven't grown, the critique gets a lot stronger. But that isn't today.
Today, I'd rather see Venice reinvest aggressively into growth while keeping the token tied to that growth than crank up burns too early.
https://t.co/tcMRwTFb49
~$7,500,000 inflows into the Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF $BHYP today. HYPE purchased.
~$30,000,000 volume traded.
A pull back is opportunity for many investors. Crypto has never been a straight line, and it won't start being one now.
Onward —
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The downfall of polymarket.
The team resolved the “microstrategy sells any Bitcoin by May 31” market to No.
The problem is they literally sold Bitcoin in May.
It’s not even up for debate. The filing says they sold Bitcoin. That’s a fact.
If a tree fell in the forest on May 31st, but someone didn't discover it until June 1st, then Polymarket would resolve that the tree fell on June 1st
If users can’t trust markets to be resolved based on what actually happened, the whole product falls apart.
Pretty hard to justify using a prediction market when objective facts apparently don’t matter.
This is basically free advertising Hip4 hyperliquid
Hyperliquid is just superior
Grass broke out on a weekly
- Grey box = weekly OB
where i think everyone should be filling orders
- If we get closure above the green line, it's takeoff time
- Range 2 is a freebee
Earnings call July 7th
funny thing is that as the price of Hype goes higher, being the house of all finance becomes more and more real every day. Study reflexivity in price and a team of 11 building 25/7. High price -> More attention -> More volume -> More trust -> More value to hype and an unlimited flywheel. Deaux was just the warmup.
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