birdman

We welcome today’s CFTC actions: approval of the first U.S.-listed perpetual derivatives contract, an accompanying Commission policy statement on the listing of perpetual derivatives, related interpretive guidance and no-action relief from the Market Participants Division, and a Staff Advisory on 24/7 Trading, Clearing, and Settlement, as a long-overdue acknowledgment that perpetual derivatives are a legitimate and essential tool for price discovery and risk management. For too long, regulatory ambiguity drove these markets offshore, depriving American traders and institutions of access to regulated venues and undermining U.S. competitiveness in the global derivatives markets. Today’s actions chart a new path forward. We look forward to engaging closely with the Commission to ensure that the framework it develops is workable not only for centralized intermediaries, but for the onchain protocols where the most significant perpetuals activity actually occurs.

$1B traded on Dango in just over 4 weeks. Team of 9. Top 30 on @DefiLlama already. Major MMs still onboarding. And we’re only getting started 🍡

@chameleon_jeff @HyperliquidPC hyperliquid

I spent the past few days in Washington with @hyperliquidpc meeting with policymakers during the historic advancement of the Clarity Act. We discussed Hyperliquid, the benefits that it offers to American consumers, and the regulatory path to bring onchain derivatives markets into the United States. Some conversations were technical with an impressive baseline understanding of Hyperliquid. Discussions included how onchain trading is a financial innovation that has clear global user demand. Other conversations focused more on a first principles introduction to defi and the promise of onchain markets. It was encouraging to see bipartisan support for thoughtful regulation of crypto. I look forward to continuing discussions in DC and working hard to make American access to Hyperliquid a reality.

Extended end of Q1 update [TLDR] - Multi-asset collateral launching soon - TradFi expansion accelerating (>25 markets live, partnership coming, focused on distribution via TradFi brokers) - Becoming more institutional-ready (pricing methodology, trading workflows) - Building decentralised, high-throughput sequencing [Product] The team has completed development of multi-asset collateral margin. It is now in the testing phase on testnet and undergoing smart contract audits. We expect to launch at the end of April or early May, with support for wBTC, ETH, USDT and potentially EURC as collateral, subject to underlying liquidity. In Q1, we also doubled down on our TradFi offering, expanding to 25+ equities, indices, FX markets and commodities with competitive liquidity. We are currently finalising an agreement with a major TradFi broker, which will both broaden our offering and help bring in flow. The other priority for the team is making Extended more institutional-friendly across both product and trading: - Improving the definition and transparency of fair reference pricing for TradFi markets, with a consistent and clear methodology: spot-based references for equities and FX, and futures-derived pricing for commodities and energy - Introducing and better communicating institutional-grade features such as MPC wallet workflows, API key-only trading, and our sub-account architecture In addition: - With multi-asset collateral, we have built native spot markets (required to process liquidations of non-USDC balances). These will be released shortly after the cross-asset rollout. - The team is progressing towards decentralising sequencing via an application-specific chain built on a high-throughput implementation of full BFT consensus (targeting ~50ms block times and hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). This architecture introduces an app-chain layered on top of our existing zk-enabled stack, enabling decentralised matching and related services while preserving existing security guarantees. More details and timelines will be shared soon. Importantly, this design enables Extended tokenomics and revenue accrual to the token. [Growth and community] Our strategy remains consistent: - Stay open to feedback - Continuously iterate on the product - Encourage organic usage - Do not do paid marketing or paid deals - Focus on long-term sustainability and value creation Over the past quarter, we have gained stronger conviction that demand for perpetuals is increasing among traditional players, driven by 24/7 trading, higher leverage and deeper liquidity. As a result, we are doubling down on business development with TradFi brokers (fintechs and trading platforms). This is a long-term effort, but we believe it will be a key driver of sustainable growth. We also have several important integrations with trading terminals coming up, both retail and institutional. [Team] Over the past quarter, we hired 3 new team members and are now a team of 14. As we move towards decentralising sequencing, we expect to grow to 18-20 people in the coming months. [Market and exchange metrics] Nothing unexpected: January saw all-time highs across key metrics, followed by a broader market slowdown in February and March. All Extended metrics are public: dune.com/extended/exten… From our perspective, short-term market conditions are less important than long-term trends. What matters is that the market we are building in continues to grow and there is room for new players. We strongly believe this is the case: - price discovery for TradFi assets is likely to increasingly shift towards perpetuals. More on this here: x.com/rf_extended/st… - DeFi continues to gain share versus CeFi - Regulatory clarity is improving across both the US and Europe

Today we filed the initial S-1 for Grayscale HYPE ETF (ticker: $GHYP) with the @SECGov. Read the S-1: sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

@chameleon_jeff hyperliquid

Huge congratulations to TradeXYZ and S&P for this historic partnership. I'm honored that these teams choose to build on Hyperliquid. Seeing official S&P500 perpetual futures launch exclusively on Hyperliquid is a validation of everyone's past years of hard work: global access to decentralized finance, perpetual futures as 24/7 price discovery, and Hyperliquid upgrading the existing financial stack to house all of finance. The S&P500 is synonymous with "the market," a single number that captures the essence of the largest economy in the world. Looking forward to tracking the world's most important financial gauge 24/7 on the most liquid permissionless markets.

At this point, Hyperliquid has grown to where “housing all of finance” is more than a tagline.

Crypto traders flocked to the Hyperliquid exchange to hedge commodities as the conflict between the US, Israel and Iran erupted bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Imagine letting another man "fill" you. This is why I exclusively market buy.

@HyperliquidX hyperliquid

The Hyper Foundation will contribute 1M HYPE tokens to support the creation of the Hyperliquid Policy Center. The tokens will be unstaked later today. The Hyperliquid community will benefit from having representation in Washington, D.C., and we are confident that under @jchervinsky's leadership, the Hyperliquid Policy Center will have a meaningful impact in favor of clear regulations for decentralized finance.

[ ZOOMER ] HYPERLIQUID LAUNCHES LOBBYING GROUP "HYPERLIQUID POLICY CENTER" LED BY JAKE CHERVINSKY, HYPERLIQUID FOUNDATION TO SEED IT WITH $28M OF $HYPE: FORTUNE

@HyperliquidX hyperliquid

HyperCore will support outcome trading (HIP-4). Outcomes are fully collateralized contracts that settle within a fixed range. They are a general-purpose primitive that are useful for applications such as prediction markets and bounded options-like instruments. There has been extensive user demand in both of these areas, and builders will likely think of novel applications as well. Outcomes bring non-linearity, dated contracts, and an alternative form of derivative trading that does not involve leverage or liquidations. The outcome primitive expands the expressivity of HyperCore, while composing with other primitives such as portfolio margin and the HyperEVM. Outcomes are a work in progress and currently only being tested on testnet. Canonical markets based on objective settlement sources will be deployed once technical development is complete. Canonical markets will be denominated in USDH. Pending user feedback, the infrastructure will be extended to permissionless deployment.

@chameleon_jeff thank jeff

Hyperliquid has quietly achieved an important milestone of becoming the most liquid venue for crypto price discovery in the world. See below for side by side comparison of BTC perps on Binance (left) and Hyperliquid (right). With HIP-3 teams leading the way, Hyperliquid has also grown to become the most liquid venue for perps on tradfi assets. Thank you to everyone's hard work as we upgrade the financial system and house all of finance.

funny timing huh

xmr, hyperliquid in less than a year, that's crazy

Buying $1m worth of XMR with BTC routing through Hyperliquid. Zero fees. 0% freeze risk. Welcome to Wagyu v2 🐮

@HyperliquidX hyperliquid

Hyperliquid today looks very different from Hyperliquid a year ago. This time last year, the HyperEVM hadn’t even launched, and there were only a handful of early believers building exclusively on Hyperliquid. Now, there are hundreds of teams building, dozens of regional communities with local events, and trillions more in volume traded. This was achieved without any external funding and giving all protocol fees to the community. Hyperliquid was built with a strong belief in returning to the core ethos of crypto  -  changing entrenched and predatory practices to be fair and permissionless. This art piece is meant to celebrate Hyperliquid’s growing ecosystem and commemorate how far we’ve come as a community in building the house of all finance. You’ll find many of your favorite apps and teams interwoven in the piece if you zoom in. A special thank you to @Degen_Alfie for bringing the community to life. Many great teams didn’t make it due to limited space and time, but your contributions have not gone unnoticed! Notable product and tech releases in 2025 included: + HyperEVM launch with HyperCore composability via precompiles and CoreWriter + Spot assets bridged by Unit + Fully permissionless validator set + Native utility to staking, with fee discounts for traders and permissionless HyperCore deployment capabilities for builders + Permissionless spot quote assets + Hypurr NFTs + USDH governance vote and launch by Native Markets + HIP-3 permissionless perp deployment + Native USDC integration + Portfolio margin pre-alpha launch + Assistance Fund HYPE officially burned Compared to 2024, ATHs in 2025 reached: + $32B in 24h volume from $15B in 2024 + $16B in open interest from $4B + $6B in TVL from $2B + $20M in 24h protocol revenue from $3.5M + 1.4M users from 300k Excited to see what the ecosystem looks like another year from now. Thank you to all the builders, users, and supporters who have come together to push forward Hyperliquid’s vision.