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what's hyperliquid?

Hyperliquid is a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain and decentralized exchange specializing in perpetual futures trading with fully on-chain order books and zero gas fees. It enables fast, low-cost perpetuals, spot trading, and liquidity provision through innovative features like vaults for copy trading and a custom consensus algorithm. The platform bridges CeFi efficiency with DeFi transparency, supporting developers via HyperEVM for building financial applications.

Snapshot

Hyperliquid integrates with Rainbow for RNBW token earning, offers 10% HYPE APR, and lists on Kraken Pro.

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2H ago
TECH EVENT

Implemented HIP-6, which adapts Uniswap-style continuous clearing auctions to a central limit order book (CLOB) to address ICO pricing issues and thin order books.

3H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on HTX exchange.

6H ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

A former largest HYPE long position holder closed their position after achieving $5M profit and rotated $8.18M into a PAXG long, currently holding $230K unrealized gain.

13H ago
PARTNERSHIP

Tether invested in Dreamcash, a trading application built on the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Dreamcash collectively processed billions in trading volume through its mobile and web applications on Hyperliquid during February 2026.

16H ago
TECH EVENT

HyperEVM is supported as a destination chain for Circle's crosschain forwarding service through Bridge Kit and Circle Gateway, enabling automated destination-chain execution for crosschain USDC transfers.

20H ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

Discussed on Bankless podcast episode covering tariffs, AI, and crypto markets, with focus on DC policy center.

1D ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached an all-time high of 215,260 active perpetual traders on November 1st, 2025, with 209,154 active perpetual traders reported as of February 25th, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Achieved nearly $3 trillion in total exchange volume during 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $17 billion in trading volume within the first 10 months of operation.

RISK ALERT

Experienced a scam exceeding $10 million related to Trove, which impacted numerous KOLs and users within the Hyperliquid ecosystem over the last 12 months.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Price reached $28.92 with a 4.58% increase on February 26, 2026.

TECH EVENT

Hyperbeat launched on HyperEVM on February 26th, 2026, mentioned by C4dotgg on February 27, 2026.

2D ago
TECH EVENT

Vault shares become ERC20 tokens via EIP-4626 standard, enabling composability across DeFi protocols and HyperEVM.

TECH EVENT

Vaults gain ability to trade spot, HIP-3 assets, and additional market types including memecoins, equities, and pre-launch tokens on the platform.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Sold 311,000 HYPE tokens through two separate TWAP executions, with 200,000 HYPE sold in 90 minutes on February 25th and 110,000 HYPE sold on February 26th after withdrawals from Bybit.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on BitMEX with native L1 integration for HYPE deposits and trading, including zero-slippage spot conversion.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A trader opened a $20.49M short position on ETH at an entry price of $2,053.66 with liquidation at $2,372.69, representing 10 times their total account equity.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Recorded the largest single liquidation order at $11.32M on BTC-USD pair in the past 24 hours.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Whale trader folhas99 opened a $41.4 million short position on BTC with 600 BTC at an entry price of $69,100 and liquidation price of $75,900.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Launched HyperLend on February 26th, 2026, with HPL airdrop claiming and HPL token trading available.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with OpenSea to provide perpetuals trading infrastructure, allowing users to accrue points for both platforms simultaneously.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with MetaMask Perps, enabling users to open long or short positions using Hyperliquid directly from their MetaMask wallets.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed Korean equities for trading on the platform.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Ranks as the top perpetuals DEX by open interest, capturing 16.9% of the perpetual futures market share relative to centralized exchanges as of February 2026, operating as a custom L1.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A trader holds a 120,000 ETH long position on Hyperliquid that has moved from over $20 million in unrealized losses to $2.75 million in unrealized profit as ETH rebounded above $2,000.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed Monarch (MONARCH) as a spot market on the exchange.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Requested unstake of 173,000 HYPE tokens, valued at $4.9M, for HL labs/team, vesting February 2026, unstaked March 6, 2026.

OPINION SPECULATION

Sets a new standard for revenue-generating chains, with sustainable economics cited as more important than narrative in the context of industry maturation and blockspace commoditization.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generates annualized revenue crossing the billion-dollar range during high activity periods, with 90%+ of revenue flowing into buybacks and burns.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Launched first spot market on Hyperliquid exchange platform.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed ZAMA token for trading, with bridging support provided by Stargate Finance.

TECH EVENT

Introduced HIP-4, which enables outcome markets including prediction markets, binary contracts, and bounded payoff structures that are fully collateralized without liquidation mechanics.

TECH EVENT

Implemented HIP-3, enabling permissionless deployment of perpetual futures contracts on the protocol.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Converts protocol fees automatically and burns them through on-chain logic without human discretion or discretionary buyback programs.

TECH EVENT

Launched HyperEVM, allowing Ethereum-style smart contracts on Layer 1 with access to native liquidity and order book infrastructure. Integrated with Ankr, which launched RPC endpoints for HyperEVM, enabling developers to build smart contracts with reliable, low-latency access.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Distributed approximately $1 billion worth of HYPE tokens to early users in a community airdrop, which grew to $10 billion in value within months.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Trader Burgundy-LeopardSeal-t4y opened a $22.9M short position on BTC at 40x leverage with an average entry price of $65.1k and liquidation level at $66.9k.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Trader Burgundy-LeopardSeal-t4y has generated $7.8B in lifetime trading volume on the platform.

3D ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 8.2% of circulating supply held by Digital Asset Treasuries by February 2026, the highest percentage among major digital assets.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Burns 1-2 million dollars worth of HYPE daily through the assistance fund buyback program.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Senpi for autonomous trading agents powered by OpenClaw, with Privy, capable of discovering traders, scanning markets, opening positions, rebalancing portfolios, and managing risk.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrating with Hyperscaled to enable HYPE books trading within Vanta Trading platform, with a Chrome extension providing account visibility.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Vitalik Buterin opened a $500 million perpetual short position on ETH on the platform.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Reached final four in Coinage Media's "Crypto Project of the Year" voting series.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Executed buybacks increased by 21.6% over the 30-day period ending on February 24, 2026, though 7-day buyback activity decreased by 29%.

MARKET ACTIVITY

CoinShares launched a physically backed Hyperliquid Staking ETP, providing exposure to HYPE token.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated perpetual futures into Trojan Terminal, a Solana-based trading platform offering multi-asset trading with up to 50x leverage.

TECH EVENT

Maintained 100% uptime during the October 10th crypto crash and processed record volume without system failure.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Zerion to power perpetuals trading for all Zerion iOS users.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Scored 57/80 in a comprehensive perp DEX framework evaluation, ranking second overall across eight dimensions including 328 orderbook snapshots, liquidation analysis, and regulatory exposure mapping.

REGULATORY

Bitwise filed for a hyperliquid ETF among 11+ altcoin ETF filings in 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A single wallet took a large short position on MET token on Hyperliquid.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Circulating supply fell below 300M coins, with exchange revenues driving net burns that exceed the combined rate of staking emissions and team unlocks.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Whale 0xcd6b deposited 7.35M USDC into Hyperliquid and opened long positions totaling 61,951 xyz:NVDA ($11.94M) and 2,920 xyz:SNDK ($2M), with a pending limit order for 40,778 xyz:NVDA ($4.53M).

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Unstaked 1M $HYPE tokens on February 18, 2026, to establish a Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generated $947K in fees over a 24-hour period, exceeding Solana's $685K.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Added AZTEC perpetuals with 3x leverage.

4D ago
PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Pendle's Boros platform offering BTCUSDC and GOLDUSDC interest rate products with maturity on 2026-03-27.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Wallet 0x418a accumulated over $36 million in profits, representing a 42% gain over the previous week and over 300% gain over the previous three months.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Based, a SuperApp built on Hyperliquid, surpassed $39B in total volume.

WHALE ACTIVITY

ContinueCapital distributed 865,000 HYPE tokens across three new addresses and sold the entire amount to the market within 20 hours on 2026-02-23.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale holding a 1.38M HYPE long position (valued at $35.9M) deposited an additional 2.4M USDC to avoid liquidation, with the new liquidation price at $23.91.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A wallet deposited 1.8M USDC and opened a 25x leveraged long position on 13,563 ETH ($24.87M) with a liquidation price of $1,748.18.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated into defiapp, a multi-protocol platform that aggregates Hyperliquid with other DeFi protocols including Aave and DEXs.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on Flash Trade with up to 20x leverage for perpetual trading on Solana, offering exposure through Pool 3 for LPs and FLU for traders.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Trading at $28.94 as of February 23, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Ranked as the 5th highest entity by 7-day fee generation in crypto.

TECH EVENT

Dark pools feature launched on Hyperliquid through Silhouette integration.

PARTNERSHIP

Based, a web3 trading and payments app, is built on Hyperliquid and integrates perpetual futures, prediction markets, and wallet services on the platform.

PARTNERSHIP

Raised $11.5M Series A funding led by Pantera Capital with Coinbase Ventures and Wintermute, structured with equity and token warrants, to integrate perpetuals, prediction markets, and crypto debit cards.

5D ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

HIP-3 open interest reached $1 billion all-time high, with Silver, Nasdaq 100 (XYZ100), and Gold contracts generating volume.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Deposited $1.5M USDC and opened a $28.44M ETH long position with 25x leverage on February 23, 2026, at a liquidation price of $1,819.55.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached a peak of 74,300 active addresses in 2025 and currently has 49,900 active addresses.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A trader holds a 5x leveraged long position worth approximately $41 million on HYPE with an unrealized profit of approximately $4.15 million as of February 23, 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale (High Turnover Barracuda) opened a $24.8M ETH long position at 20x leverage on Hyperliquid with a liquidation price of $1,828.75, representing 100% of their remaining $1.23M margin.

ONCHAIN METRICS

HIP-3 DEXs achieve combined daily volume exceeding $1 billion on weekdays.

6D ago
PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with RangoExchange for cross-chain bridging and swapping, enabling users to move assets from Bitcoin, Solana, Tron, and EVM chains to Hyperliquid and HyperEVM with zero dApp fees.

TEAM UPDATE

Operates with 10-11 employees at Hyperliquid Labs.

1W ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale trader (Emerald-Jellyfish-e5j) opened a $20.4M short position on BTC at 40x leverage on Hyperliquid, representing 300 BTC with a liquidation price of $70.4k.

PARTNERSHIP

Partners with TreadFi to offer a 5x XP boost starting February 25, 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Staking is available on Binance US with weekly rewards.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale (Arctic-MahiMahi-r6b) opened a $20.27M BTC long position at 40x leverage on Hyperliquid, allocating 100% of their $1.31M desk with 5.3% margin remaining before liquidation.

TECH EVENT

Will enable cross margin for HIP-3 in the next mainnet upgrade.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale trader labeled "Deep Inflow Hammerhead" opened a $20M leveraged BTC long position on Hyperliquid using 20x leverage, representing 100% of their $1.38M margin, with liquidation at $63,752.

ONCHAIN METRICS

The whale trader "Deep Inflow Hammerhead" generated $134M in trading volume on Hyperliquid over 8 days.

VISIBILITY EVENT

MoonPay is running a $1,000 giveaway promotion (5 winners of $200 each) to celebrate Dreamcash trading experience on Hyperliquid, with winners to be announced on 2026-02-27.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $25 billion in trading volume in a single session approximately six weeks after December 25, 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generated $644M in total trading volume over a 9-day period from a single whale trader account.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on HTX exchange with deposits opened and trading starting soon.

PARTNERSHIP

Partners with Dreamcash and MoonPay to enable fiat onramps into the Hyperliquid ecosystem through Dreamcash's trading terminal across app, web, and desktop.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured as a case study alongside Uniswap and Jupiter at InnovateDenver conference panel discussing successful airdrop strategies, with speakers noting Hyperliquid had real users before token distribution that amplified existing traction.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with BitMEX's Copy Trading marketplace, allowing users to follow or go against top Hyperliquid traders.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Holds 120,000 ETH long position worth $230 million across two addresses, with an unrealized loss of $10.35 million as of 2026-02-23, controlled by a single trader.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Daily trading volume accounts for approximately 30% of the total Perp DEX sector volume.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Daily trading volume reaches approximately 15% of Binance's daily trading volume.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Assistance Fund buys back $1.5M HYPE daily, removing it from economic supply, with all revenue going to buyback and burn of HYPE tokens.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

237M team tokens vesting through 2027.

MARKET ACTIVITY

TradFi perpetuals reached 31.6% of total trading volume over the last 30 days, up from 5% in late January 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Recorded $382 billion in total trading volume since late December 2025.