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Why $HYPE ETF inflows are different (and more bullish) than BTC, ETH & SOL ETFs: When Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana spot ETFs launched, institutions already had major access through Grayscale (GBTC, ETHE, GSOL). The “inflows” we saw? A lot of it was just migration — moving from expensive, locked Grayscale trusts to cheaper, liquid ETFs. This created huge redemption pressure and “sell the news” dumps, especially on ETH & SOL. HYPE is completely different. No Grayscale trust existed before. No prior easy institutional vehicle for $HYPE. Every single dollar flowing into Bitwise BHYP, 21Shares THYP, etc. is fresh, new capital. This isn’t rotation or migration. This is real institutional onboarding into a high-conviction Layer-1 for the first time. That’s why we’re seeing strong net buying pressure with almost zero offsetting outflows. Real demand. Clean flows. This is how you get sustained upside. $HYPE ETF summer just started.

👏 Exactly. Most perp CEX/DEXs are closed apps — you can trade but can’t build. Hyperliquid feels more like Ethereum for perps: an open platform where devs can innovate in ways simply not possible on walled-garden perp venues. Hyperliquid

9/ This is the most aggressive public+private+token loop we’ve seen. And it's happening right under Wall Street’s nose. The next play isn’t on-chain. It’s on Nasdaq. $ALT5 $WLFI $USD1

8/ You’re not buying WLFI. You’re buying ALT5, the WLFI capital multiplier. WLFI is the rocket. ALT5 is the launchpad. Expect low float, strong demand engineering, and reflexive NAV pumps.

1/ Everyone’s talking about WLFI token. But the real alpha? It’s NOT just WLFI. It’s the WLFI–ALT5 loop—a crypto/equity flywheel hiding in plain sight. Here’s the breakdown 🧵👇

@benliew @MeteoraAG 1. Better filteration, sorting and APR calculation 2. Total PnL monitoring, which incudes Impermanent loss/profit and fees 3. Readjust position without the need to take out position from the pool 4. Stop loss -> Exit position if price falls below x 5. Position History

We're working on redesigning @MeteoraAG and building the platform publicly with all you LP experts. While we're working on adding more advanced features, we want to also keep Meteora newbie-friendly, so that anyone can navigate the platform and start LP-ing easily. If you have any features that will immediately 10x your LPing experience, please reply under this tweet. Example: "If Meteora has a notification system that promptly notifies me when my position is out of range, it will help me manage my position better." I'll be noting down all of the suggestions and feedback you have and we'll get to work.

Hyperliquid has redefined trading. When a whale shorts $450M+ BTC and wants a public audience, it's only possible on Hyperliquid. When headlines say "Bitcoin Market on Edge," they are equating "Hyperliquid" with the "market." Anyone can photoshop a PNL screenshot. No one can question a Hyperliquid position, just like no one can question a Bitcoin balance. The decentralized future is here.

There's been a lot of discussion on Hyperliquid's margin design. I’ll address some flaws in the common arguments and explain Hyperliquid's first-principles based approach to improving the system. To my knowledge, this is the first such design in margining systems. Perhaps other teams will find it useful for their own logic. Like good theories in physics, the best margining design is simple, canonical, explainable, and works in a wide variety of pathological scenarios. 1. The conclusion of some people has been that there needs to be a centralized force that detects and limits malicious behavior. This completely violates the purpose of defi and everything Hyperliquid stands for. This forces users back to a web2 world where the platform has the final say. True decentralized finance is worth it, even if it is 10x harder to build. Just a few years ago, no one believed DEX/CEX volumes would reach its ratio today. Hyperliquid is leading the charge here and has no intention to stop. 2. Some assume that copying approaches from CEXs will work in defi. The most common suggestion I've seen is per-address margin requirement fraction scaling with position size, as CEXs only offer higher leverage for smaller positions. However, this doesn't work to prevent manipulation attempts on a DEX because a sophisticated attacker can easily open positions on many accounts. Nonetheless, this will help somewhat reduce the impact of "organic whale" positions and is on the list of features to implement. 3. Another suggestion is to implement some features that severely limit usability of the platform in exchange for safety. For example, if unrealized pnl is not withdrawable, many attacks are not possible. Indeed, Hyperliquid pioneered isolated-only perps for illiquid assets which feature this safety mechanism. However, this change would have a crippling effect on funding arbitrage strategies, where unrealized pnl from Hyperliquid needs to be withdrawn to offset the loss on other venues. Real user needs are a top priority in system design. 4. There were also suggestions to innovate on design by having margin settings based on global parameters. However, liquidation prices need to be deterministic functions of price and position size. If global parameters such as open interest were added as inputs to margin requirements, users would lose confidence in the ability to use leverage at all. So what's the answer? We all want defi, but a permissionless system must be robust to manipulation at all scales. The answer lies in understanding the true problem with large positions: they are difficult to mark. The first order approximation of mark price times size breaks down when market impact approaches maintenance margin. It's impossible to accurately simulate market impact because book liquidity is a path-dependent function of time and actions of other participants. Without simulating market impact, it can be possible for liquidation to be a low-slippage way to exit at a price that is unfavorable to the liquidator. Therefore, Hyperliquid's margining system update has the following desirable property: any liquidated position is either a loss relative to entry price, or at least a (20% - 2 * maintenance_margin_ratio / 3) = 18.3% loss relative to the last margin transfer out (using an example of 20x leverage). An organic 20x user who makes 100% return on equity after a 5% move will still be able to withdraw the majority of the pnl without closing the position. However, by introducing separate margin requirements between transfers and opening new positions, profitable manipulation attempts require moving the mark price almost 20%. This kind of attack is infeasible from a capital perspective. Finally, I'd like to point out that the mark price problem also solves itself as market makers continue scaling up on Hyperliquid. It's quite possible that the trader yesterday could have lost money in aggregate. $1.8M pnl longing on Hyperliquid could have been more than offset when pushing the price on other venues, or using other accounts on Hyperliquid. HLP took over an undesirable position, losing $4M. The only market participants who definitely made money in aggregate are the market makers. With millions of dollars of pnl to be made in the span of minutes, it's becoming clear to sophisticated participants that Hyperliquid is one of the venues with the best flow. As liquidity improves, it will become more and more expensive to dislodge prices. So while the margining system improvements will go a long way, the allure of easy pnl attracting market makers will provide an independent source of robustness over time. The future is decentralized. Hyperliquid.

To date, Hyperliquid has processed over $1 trillion in trading volume and become the first DEX to rival CEX scale. As volume and open interest continue to grow, there are increasingly large tests for the margining system. Yesterday’s event highlighted an opportunity to strengthen the margining framework to address extreme conditions more robustly. Immediate review was undertaken to analyze the scenario in detail and investigate ways to mitigate similar situations. Risk management is, and has always been, a top priority. It is a constant focus, even if not publicly highlighted each day. To that effect, there will be a change to require 20% margin ratio on margin transfers in a network upgrade after March 15 0:00 UTC. "Margin transfer" refers to funds leaving cross wallet and isolated margin positions. Examples include withdrawals, perp to spot transfers, and adding or removing isolated margin. This change does not affect the opening of new cross margin positions and only affects new isolated margin positions if cross margin usage would exceed 5x after the isolated position is opened. This update is intended to maintain healthier margin requirements and reduce the systemic impact of large positions with hypothetical market impact upon closing. As always, Hyperliquid remains committed to providing a performant, transparent, and resilient trading environment and delivering the best possible experience for users.

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HYPE is now my biggest position behind BTC. I’ve been accumulating fast at these prices, and I’m making HYPE my next big trade. The last time I made a move like this was accumulating SOL at ~$25. For the first time since the FTX crash, I officially don’t hold any SOL. Not because I don’t think SOL isn’t a solid trade (it definitely is) but my gut says HYPE, and I’m leaning in. There are plenty of reasons why I’m bullish on HYPE, but the most important one is the beauty of the product itself. I reached out to Jeff in the very early days of HYPE. I used the product and immediately knew it was a winner. I wanted to see if he was open to investors, but he wasn’t. And honestly, that’s why HYPE is so special. It’s why you won’t see it pushed as hard on the timeline as SOL or any other token with heavy VC backing. The big VC voices in this space are powerful and influential, but Jeff made a different choice. He decided to give to the users instead of the VCs. That’s a bold move, and one I deeply respect. And this is why HYPE deserves support, even if you’re not holding it. We’re entering a new era in crypto: one that feels a lot like the post-dot-com bubble era for the internet. After the speculative frenzy fades, what’s left are the real builders and the real products. In this phase, the protocols that will thrive are the ones that give value back to the users, the ones that treat their users as stakeholders, not just liquidity. That’s why HYPE matters. It’s part of this shift. There’s nothing more powerful than being a user and, by being a user, becoming an investor. That’s the purest alignment of incentives, using something you genuinely believe in and benefiting when it succeeds. I think Jeff is betting on that model. He’s choosing to let the value flow to the people who actually engage with the product, not just to the gatekeepers. If HYPE works, it sets a precedent for the next wave of protocols. A future where the best projects aren’t just built for users, they’re built with them. Where being early and engaged isn’t just a speculative position, it’s ownership. That’s why I’m betting big.

It’s time @circle started supporting @HyperliquidX native USDC. After all they have most of the USDC on Arbitrum.

Only one of these is buying back tokens using the generated revenue! Guess who?