The native token powering the decentralized derivatives change Hyperliquid was one of many few tokens to submit a acquire over the 24 hours, as crypto entrepreneur Arthur Hayes informed an viewers in Tokyo he expects it to 126x over the following three years.
Hyperliquid (HYPE) has gained nearly 4% during the last 24 hours and is now buying and selling at $45.64 — although it briefly reached over $47 earlier within the day.
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes made the forecast on the WebX 2025 convention in Tokyo on Monday native time.
Hayes mentioned that stablecoin enlargement would push the DEX’s annualized charges to $258 billion whereas its present annualized income is simply $1.2 billion.
Hyperliquid is a decentralized change for perpetual futures, by-product contracts with out an expiry date, permitting speculators to take leveraged positions on crypto belongings with out proudly owning them.
Open perps, DEX quantity at an all-time excessive
Hyperliquid complete open positions hit an all-time excessive of 198,397 on Monday, in accordance with the Hypertracker analytics platform.
In the meantime, open curiosity, or the worth of contracts but to be settled, climbed above $15 billion, and complete pockets fairness peaked at $31 billion.
Hyperliquid DEX quantity additionally hit an all-time excessive of $1.56 billion over the weekend, in accordance with DefiLlama. Transaction charges have additionally reached July’s all-time excessive of $93 million thus far this month.
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DefiLlama additionally exhibits that the overall worth locked for the derivatives DEX is at the moment $685 million, simply shy of its February peak.
Hyperliquid consuming competitors
Knowledge supplier Redstone printed a complete report on the change final week by which they mentioned, “In a span of lower than two years, they went from zero to persistently capturing over 75% of your complete decentralized perpetual change market,” beforehand held by dYdX.
Hyperliquid now processes as much as $30 billion every day, “getting near matching Binance’s quantity on some pairs,” it added.
HYPE hit an all-time excessive of slightly below $50 on July 14 and is at the moment simply 7% away from that peak.
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