1/ Multicoin published a full analysis & valuation of Hyperliquid (HYPE).
HYPE is now one of the largest positions in our liquid hedge fund. We've been accumulating aggressively since February.
Here's why we believe HYPE will be one of the best performers over the next cycle:
Top reasons to be bullish on Hyperliquid or at least consider learning about it more:
1. HYPE is one of the only investable assets in the whole world at the moment.
2. Hyperliquid never raised capital. Having no investors allowed founder to do whatever he wanted with the company. Team utilizes the time very efficiently.
3. No true competitor to the symbiosis of Hyperliquid and HYPE token. Look out for competitors in 2-3 years minimum (explain why in the article).
4. The token's value accrual (via buybacks) flows more directly between the protocol's usage and the community/team holding the token, there's no separate stakeholder class.
5. Founder was good enough to earn millions of dollars trading on his own. Trading is the most bad ass skill you could have: pure measurement.
6. Lighter has no advantage over Hyperliquid (enjoy being part of the sci-fi novel chains), and Aster was a fast attempt to conquer Hyperliquid, but no lasting financial infrastructure is built fast and out of envy.
7. If you look at Hyperliquid, even if you don't trade perps, you might still be interested in owning HYPE.
8. I use Uniswap and Aave on almost a daily basis, but why should I be interested in buying their tokens? To stake them and get even more (ouroboros), or vote in governance where private investors always have the majority of the voting rights? Thanks, I don't need that.
9. Hyperliquid is far from integrating the majority of trading instruments, currently there are only perps and binary options (prediction markets) live. Integrations of vanilla options will be one of the biggest and rewarding events.
10. Hyperliquid is positioned to keep pulling crypto traders away from Binance, Bybit, and OKX, while also drawing in commodity traders from traditional exchanges, potentially dominating this segment of the options market entirely.
11. Hyperliquid never invested money into marketing, and more importantly, into building its own ecosystem. The ecosystem play has always been the scam people have been falling for over the years.
12. People who want to use Hyperliquid or build on it don't need to talk to the Hyperliquid team directly. Smart decisions about setting a bar for market creation, no spam on the network.
13. Hyperliquid has a world-class team. Not in the sense that they hired the best people, but in the sense of management style. Don't think of Google, Meta, or Apple, think of Rockstar, Telegram, Valve.
14. Hyperliquid is a prime example of the "Zero to One" philosophy from Thiel's book. The idea of building a perp DEX is not new, but the idea of ruthless execution and literally not giving a damn about anything else is indeed new.
15. Another important thing to remember is that Hyperliquid emerged after the FTX crash, so you don't have to convince people about the benefits of self-custody, as this is now pretty self-explanatory.
16. Funny how conversations about "DEX vs. CEX" back in the day were pretty lopsided, and then the conversation changed to "Hyperliquid vs. CEXes" and became very serious.
17. $PURR and Hyperliquid Strategies are the only treasury companies in the world with a positive P&L.
18. If Hyperliquid's funding rates on perps undercut what's available elsewhere, capital flows in regardless of whether participants care about crypto.
19. Hyperliquid is both an open, composable protocol (like DeFi infrastructure) and a polished, sticky consumer product (like a well-run exchange app). Most projects are one or the other, in Hyperliquid's case, you don't have to pick a side.
20. Hyperliquid didn't feel the competition with other perp DEXes and started competing with crypto CEXes and major CEXes. That alone says everything you need to know.
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.
Many are wondering "what Google saw" that caused them to revise their post-quantum cryptography transition deadline to 2029 last week. It was this:
https://t.co/dQtmTK9pdz
HIP-4
Industry comparison is now live on Liquid Terminal.
HIP-4 vs Polymarket vs Kalshi, side by side.
https://t.co/6PO9OuKXUo
Quick takeaways:
Polymarket settles via UMA oracle on Polygon. There's a dispute window. You wait.
Kalshi is centralized. CFTC-regulated. The platform decides.
HIP-4 settles natively on L1. One block. No dispute. No waiting. No external oracle for price outcomes. Near zero cost.
Now the part most people are sleeping on: builder codes.
On Hyperliquid, any developer can build a prediction market frontend without deploying a single contract. The order book is already there.
The liquidity is already there. The settlement is already there.
You plug into the API, attach a builder code, collect a fee on every fill. The user approves once, you're live. All onchain.
Minimum barrier: 100 USDC and a good UI.
The next Polymarket won't be a protocol. It'll be a frontend. Competing on UX, sharing one order book.
Hyperliquid.
S&P Dow Jones Indices and trade[XYZ] have joined forces to launch the first official S&P 500 perpetual contract, available exclusively on Hyperliquid.
For 69 years, the S&P 500 has been a defining reference point for global finance. Until now, access to that benchmark has been shaped by market hours, intermediaries, and geography. Today, that changes.
The S&P 500 perp is now available 24/7/365, anchored by the official index data required for deep liquidity and institutional confidence at scale.
SPDJI helped define modern indexing. They are stewards of an iconic benchmark, the standard against which portfolios across the globe are measured. We are honored to bring that legacy on-chain.
Trade[XYZ] is bringing the world's most iconic assets towards a future of global, continuous markets — a future powered by Hyperliquid.
Over the past 2 weeks, RWA trading on Hyperliquid has repeatedly broken records, surpassing $1.3B in open interest and $1.4B in weekend volume.
When traditional markets are closed, Hyperliquid is the premier venue for 24/7 price discovery on oil, metals, indices, and other essential assets. This is an important step towards housing all of finance.
I spent 100 hours over the past week researching, writing and editing the piece we just put out.
It’s a scenario, not a prediction like most of our work. But it was rigorously constructed, dismissing it outright requires the kind of intellectual laziness that tends to get expensive.
And we’ve released it for free. Hopefully you enjoy it.
https://t.co/YK8E11GcDU