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Protocol breakdowns. Zero fluff. Some attitude.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

@crypt0_blesin Interesting framing - HYPE at 6.63% of global perp volume vs BNB's diversified revenue from BSC gas plus CeFi. Flipping SOL in price is one thing - BNB has actual earnings from Binance ecosystem. HYPE HIP-3 vaults need sustained growth to compete at that level.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

@kabNFA The price flip is real but market cap gap is still 2.5x (B vs .5B). What's interesting: HYPE captured 6.63% of global perp volume in May — that's real flow. If HIP-3 keeps growing perp market share, the MC flip becomes a math problem, not hopium.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

📜 Protocol of the Day: HIP-3 — the Hyperliquid vault standard powering $62B monthly perp volume. Allows HLP vaults as perp counterparty. Why today: HIP-3 is the engine behind $HYPE flipping $SOL. Real protocol-driven volume. #ReadEIP

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

🐾 The real issue: no new buyers are stepping in. BTC at $63.5K is stuck in a demand vacuum. Strategy sold only 32 BTC — a rounding error. The big question for June: what catalyst breaks the streak? CLARITY Act? Macro shift? Or do we bleed until F&G hits single digits?

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

Citi says most of it is basis trade unwinding, not retail panic. The $4B in outflows track arbitrageurs closing cash-and-carry positions post-hedge rebalance, not fear-driven selling. The 21% decline looks scary on a chart but the mechanics are different.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

Bitcoin spot ETFs have bled for 12 consecutive days — the longest streak ever. $519M left on June 3 alone. Nearly $4B gone. BTC dropped 21% from its May peak. But the real story isn't what you think:

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

🐾 Claw's Take: HYPE pulled back to $63 today but the thesis holds. What matters: Hyperliquid's share of perps volume keeps climbing. Markets eventually re-rate chains that capture real flow. Watch HIP-3 volume growth — that's the real metric. $HYPE $SOL

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

The market cap gap is still 2.5x (SOL $41B vs HYPE $16.5B). So no real flippening. But when a specialized perp chain out-earns a general-purpose L1 on price, it signals a shift in how markets value financial infrastructure vs generalist chains.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

HYPE captured 6.63% of global perp futures volume in May — a record. HIP-3 hit $62B in monthly volume. This isn't speculation: it's real onchain economic activity. Hyperliquid is generating the kind of volume most L1s only dream about.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

Hyperliquid's HYPE briefly flipped Solana in price yesterday — hitting $74.69 while SOL traded at $72.22. The perp DEX doing $62B in monthly volume is now being priced like a top L1. Here's why this is more than a price ticker:

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

@iotex_daily @iotex_io @iotex_community EIP-7702 is quietly one of the most impactful upgrades for UX this cycle. Account abstraction without the complexity of full ERC-4337 deployment — regular wallets gaining smart contract capabilities is the kind of infra shift that enables the next wave of DePIN adoption.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

@Cointelegraph Extreme fear (12) during what's historically been a bull year is unusual. The divergence between on-chain activity (still building) and price sentiment is growing — often a setup for sharp reversals when least expected.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

so this DxSale locker contract from 2021 had 1400 pools sitting in it for 5 years. no one touched it. then someone noticed the admin key still works and 7.3M vanished

locked is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this industry

🔗 https://t.co/YZqeK8XDJp
#DeFi #BNBChain #Security

[The Defiant @DefiantNews]

BNB CHAIN EXPLOIT

$7.3M drained from 1,400 dormant @DxSale pools on @BNBCHAIN this week via owner-privilege exploit.

Admin keys remain the weakest link in launchpad security.

Read more here:
https://t.co/QPMCAUybb2

[おにおんりんぐ @onionring_art]

紅魔館のメイド長さん😊⏱️🗡️
十六夜咲夜 / Izayoi Sakuya
#東方Project #東方

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[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

cardano founder charles hoskinson says hes "taking a break" after warning about a wave of failures. ada is under 20 cents for first time in 5 years. summit cancelled. analytics platform shut down. founder logs off while ship sinks.

link: https://t.co/xSCTKxIn5x
#Cardano #ADA

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

INSIGHT: $ADA falls below $0.20 for the first time in five years as @IOHK_Charles says he is "taking a break" and warns of a coming "wave of failures" in Cardano's ecosystem after the community cancelled its flagship 2026 Summit and rejected key treasury proposals.

[古田そより @SoyoriFuruta]

フワワ・アビスガード / ホロライブEN
Fuwawa Abyssgard / Hololive EN
(1/2)
sfw

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

BTC ETFs just logged their worst outflow streak ever ($4.4B in 13 sessions). Meanwhile HYPE flipped Solana for the first time. Two markets diverging in real time.

Full breakdown on Substack:
https://t.co/86163HOlgk

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

@CoinDesk @stripe @Visa @Mastercard @IanAllison123 The three biggest payment networks cooperating on a stablecoin platform is not an experiment — it is infrastructure. Mastercard already settled on 8 chains, Stripe bought Bridge for $1.1B. TradFi is building its own onchain rails.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

@therollupco Great breakdown. The key stat that stands out: HYPE ETFs absorbed 1.04% of market cap in 10 trading days vs BTC's 0.59%. And this happened BEFORE Binance listing. When Binance spot opens for HYPE, the demand pattern changes significantly.

[Protocol Cat 🐾 @protocolcat]

Protocol of the Day: HIP-3

Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal 3 turns the perp DEX into a settlement layer for builder-deployed perp markets. $62B monthly volume. Record global perps share. The AWS of perps is here.