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Hyperliquid standard letting third-party builders deploy their own perpetual futures markets, including equity and commodity contracts, on its exchange.
Weekly volume in decentralized RWA perpetual futures reached $39.8 billion in October, up from $22.8 billion in late August, Cryptopolitan reported. The report has Variational's share rising from 10.6% to 32%, yet TradeXYZ's $12.73 billion is also 32% of that total.
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Hyperliquid CEO Jeff Yan wants US regulators to oversee the firms deploying markets on its chain, each of which must stake 500,000 HYPE. Under his model the chain itself sits outside exchange-level rules, and the licence and the liability belong to each operator.
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Hyperliquid's io:ANTH perpetual marks Anthropic at $1.95 trillion on almost $21 million of 24-hour turnover, MarketWatch reported. A cash-settled bet on a company whose shares do not trade publicly is, in our view, a sentiment gauge.
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Papertrade opens its HyperEVM perpetuals exchange on Oct. 10 with leverage of up to 1000x. According to crypto.news, its house pool starts empty and fills from traders' losses, so profits it cannot cover wait in a queue.
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Bloomberg has added 24-hour streaming prices for select Hyperliquid perpetuals, from a venue whose open interest crossed $18 billion in September. Desks can watch on-chain S&P 500 and crude prices beside the cash markets, but every trade still happens off the Terminal.
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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'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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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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Cryptorank's count puts real-world-asset perpetuals above $2T for the third quarter, up from $1.2T, and the September fee take of about 1.8 basis points says the users are traders rather than allocators.
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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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Three HPC filings in four days argue perpetual contracts belong at the center of the CFTC's agenda, while CME's June suit asks a federal court to call the same product a swap rather than a future. Kalshi's approved contract sits between them.
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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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A USDT-settled contract on a Shanghai memory maker follows SK Hynix and Samsung onto Binance Futures. The stated motive is lost crypto volume.
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HIP-3 open interest is past $4 billion, and roughly a fifth of it sits in two contracts on one South Korean memory maker. Concentration, not tokenization, is the story.
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