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Hyperliquid's open perpetual futures positions reached 435,564 on October 6, more than double January's 202,943, according to HyperTracker data. At the past month's daily volumes, its open interest would take about three to nine days of trading to turn over once.
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Tokenized equities did $66.6 million of the record Aug. 25 print while memecoin pairs fell to 12% of flow. The composition change is real. The dollar displacement is not yet proven.
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Weekly x402 stablecoin transfers doubled and Base's share of them fell to 48 percent. The dollars behind those transfers annualize to about $19 million.
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Two records on the same August 19 session, eleven weeks after perps launched. Only one of them says anything about what traders were willing to hold overnight.
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Monthly volume in tokenized equities went from $1B in January to $9B, with most of the move in June and July. The product did not change. The front ends did.
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DefiLlama puts actively deployed real-world assets at $3.98 billion, up sixfold in a year. Measured against $34.55 billion issued, that is 11.5% doing any work onchain.
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