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HYPE is the native token of Hyperliquid, a blockchain-based exchange for perpetual futures and spot trading, used for governance and fee discounts.
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Kinetiq is ending its kPoints program by letting holders buy 50 million unlocked KNTQ at $0.26, up to 18% of circulating supply. Every claimer who sells at once pockets the gap to market, so the size of the claim decides how hard KNTQ is pulled toward $0.26 before the window closes.
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Binance listed Hyperliquid's HYPE token for spot trading on September 24 without charging a listing fee, two days before CZ welcomed DEX competition. Binance uses that fee for revenue and screening, and giving it up looks like a price paid to keep HYPE traders on its own order books.
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A White House remark about CFTC Chairman Michael Selig repriced HYPE and a Nasdaq treasury stock. No approval, no registration path and no timeline has been put on the record.
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The $480bn it waves at the SEC and CFTC is under a tenth of its own venue's volume, and the onshore category it wants to enter is one CME only reopened in July.
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Hyperliquid Strategies has drawn $646.6m at an average $8.70 a share to build a 29.3 million HYPE treasury, and the new ceiling is $2.5bn, but below $12.02 a share only 42.6 million further shares can go out without a holder vote.
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Hyperliquid's open interest record on September 20 came with tokenized equities and commodities at times above 30% of the book. HIP-3 opened those markets eleven months earlier, in October 2025.
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Nine months of fees account for roughly a third of everything Hyperliquid has ever earned. Almost all of that money goes straight back out again into buying and burning its own token. The full-year total depends on which run rate holds.
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trade.xyz has put fully collateralized outcome contracts on a Hyperliquid book that has traded more than $460bn since January, and its own deployer fee sits at zero while it learns whether perp traders want to price events.
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Open interest reached $14.669bn while builder-deployed HIP-3 markets shrank by about $200m, so core perps added roughly $4bn in a month, and core routes about 99 per cent of its fees into HYPE buybacks.
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HIP-4 is live on mainnet, and at $81 a token the 500,000 HYPE bond works out near $405,000 per concurrent market slot, which is why the second deployer to launch borrowed its stake from a treasury company.
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Payward's Bitnomial filing answers the market-structure question the CFTC already knows how to answer. The open item is the screening of a permissionless order book, and no answer to that question exists yet.
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HPC and trade[XYZ] want energy perpetuals on WTI, Brent and Henry Hub without new legislation. The letter's own numbers show weekend price discovery, not hedging size.
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Hyperliquid's first L2 arrives with a 400x gas spike as its evidence and a 15-month low in spot share as its market. The awkward part is Kinetiq's own contraction.
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Abraxas Capital's Hyperliquid position is a funding-rate harvest, not a doomsday call. The exposure everyone else has to price is what happens when the largest whale needs to exit.
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One account's 84-fold three days on Hyperliquid is a curiosity. The venue clearing close to 30% of all perp DEX volume, by its reporter's own totals, is not.
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A joint comment filed on the last day of the window argues Reg NMS Rule 611's national benchmark cannot govern trades that settle at a block boundary. The SEC now decides.
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