HYPE rose 4% as bitcoin fell 5%. Longs pay on 84% of its $2.6 billion in futures bets
Hyperliquid's token was the best performer among CoinGecko's 50 largest coins on the day bitcoin fell below $70,000. Futures traders kept betting on it to rise, and on Hyperliquid itself HYPE bets now outweigh ether's.
Nvidia bets traded $1.95 billion on Hyperliquid in a day, more than ether, as bitcoin fell
In the 24 hours to 6:38 a.m. ET Friday, the day after Nvidia announced its CEO's exit, its main perpetual market on Hyperliquid outtraded ether's and trailed only bitcoin's. Stock and commodity markets now hold 35% of the exchange's open bets, CoinGecko data show.
Bitcoin fell below $70,000. Shorts now pay longs on 60% of its $43.7 billion in futures bets
Funding turned negative on seven of the ten biggest bitcoin perpetual markets as the price fell 5% in a day, CoinGecko data show. Solana bets leaned even harder toward a fall. XRP and zcash bets did not.
Two Hyperliquid traders made $111.7 million in the week bitcoin fell below $70,000
DeepSea's smart money board puts SMc060 at +$57.45 million and SM6e36 at +$54.30 million over 7 days. Together they hold 60% of the top 10's gains.
PEPE fell 11% in a day. Shorts now pay longs on half of its $465 million in futures bets
The frog memecoin was the worst performer among the 50 biggest coins on CoinGecko. Its open futures bets equal about a quarter of its market value, and on the biggest market, Binance's, shorts now pay longs.
Grayscale's Hyperliquid ETF staked 90% of its $197 million, earning 10,341 HYPE in a quarter
The quarterly report of Grayscale Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG), filed with the SEC on November 10, shows 2.22 million HYPE in the fund on September 30 and a $48.3 million quarterly gain. HYPE has since dropped about 19%.
Lighter's LIT rose 10%, and Hyperliquid holds more LIT bets than Lighter itself
LIT climbed to $3.47 while Lighter's fees held near $260,000 a day on DefiLlama. Rival Hyperliquid carries $61.4 million of open LIT bets, against $39.1 million on Lighter's own market.
Zcash fell 12% to $1,015. Hyperliquid lost 57% of its open Zcash bets in a day
ZEC dropped from about $1,160 to $1,015 in 24 hours. On Hyperliquid, open interest in the ZEC perpetual fell from $486.8 million to $211.3 million, CoinGecko data show, the steepest cut of any big venue.
Kinetiq's KNTQ fell 25% in a day and now trades at half its October 30 record
The token of Hyperliquid staking project Kinetiq slid from about $0.40 to $0.30 in two sharp drops on Tuesday, November 10, while HYPE and bitcoin moved less than 3%. More than half of the trading ran through Hyperliquid's own spot market, CoinGecko data shows.
Smart money trader SMffa1 made $13.8 million in a week, 40% of its $34.3 million wallet
DeepSea ranks SMffa1 No. 3 on Hyperliquid this week. At 6:45 a.m. ET its live trades were in stock-price markets such as LITE, SKHY and SOXL, not crypto.
Zcash fell 9% in two days. Open bets on its six biggest futures markets fell 40%
ZEC slid from $1,279 to about $1,160 since November 8. Over the same stretch, open interest on Hyperliquid, OrangeX, CoinW, Gate, OKX and Bybit dropped from $2.51 billion to $1.50 billion, CoinGecko data show.
Hyperliquid's oil market fell 7% and a chip-stock market rose 21%. Crypto bets shrank $420M
Hyperliquid's crypto markets held $9.18 billion of open bets, down from $9.60 billion a day earlier. Its stock and commodity markets now hold a third of the total.
Smart money SM2b00 made $22 million on $13.29 billion of trades. Now it holds 15 shorts
SM2b00 is No. 4 on DeepSea's 7-day board at +$10.26 million. Its biggest bets are against ETH, SOL and HYPE, and CoinGecko prices show most of them in profit.
Influencer panceramic sold $351,000 of silver bets in 20 orders and went all cash
DeepSea shows 20 silver sell orders on Hyperliquid, then a wallet of $353,200 in USDC and no open bets. Ninety percent of the influencer's 30-day profit came this week.
Last week's worst crypto influencer is now No. 2 and holds a $13.4 million Zcash short
The KOL wallet mk4 was down $2.84 million for the week on November 5. DeepSea now shows +$2.24 million over seven days, but still minus $876,800 over 30.
The No. 1 smart money trader is short $474 million of crypto and up $45.7 million on paper
SMc060 retook first place on DeepSea's 7-day board with +$36.67 million. Its 19 open bets against BTC, ETH, ZEC and others are all in profit on paper.
Trader SMb7ae made $11.5 million in a week, and 18 of its 20 open bets are shorts
SMb7ae is No. 5 on DeepSea's 7-day Smart Money board. Its open positions on Hyperliquid bet against bitcoin, HYPE, Starknet and 15 other tokens.
Hyperliquid's crypto bets shrank $640 million since Friday, and ether shorts now pay
CoinGecko's per-market data puts Hyperliquid's open bets at $14.0 billion after Sunday's ether drop. Its $1.93 billion ether market now has negative funding, while bitcoin's does not.
A smart money trader fell from No. 1 to No. 6. Two days later it is No. 2 with $23 million
SMc060's 7-day profit on DeepSea went from $59.67 million to $9.49 million and back up to $23.24 million. The top 10 now show $129.55 million, all on Hyperliquid.
Hyperliquid holds $626 million of open Zcash bets, more than Binance's $556.9 million
On a quiet Sunday, Zcash was the second most traded market on Hyperliquid, ahead of ether. CoinGecko's data shows the on-chain exchange now carries the largest pile of open ZEC futures of any venue.
DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders: $256 million in weekly profit, then $110 million
The 7-day profit shown for the crash-week winners on DeepSea's boards fell by more than half in 24 hours. The top two influencers' figures halved, and sharks are still down $3.15 million on closed trades.
A Nasdaq-listed HYPE holder wants to be a US futures broker. HYPE is down 15% in a week
Nasdaq-listed Hyperliquid Strategies says a subsidiary has applied to become a futures commission merchant, a step toward offering Hyperliquid perps to US customers. It also booked a $620.6 million quarterly profit, nearly all of it paper gains on HYPE.
Hyperliquid holds $14.9 billion in open bets, second only to Binance on CoinGecko
CoinGecko ranks Hyperliquid second of all derivatives exchanges by open interest, about $14.9 billion. Its traders also churn their positions far less than on centralized rivals.
Stock and oil bets outtraded crypto on Hyperliquid: $9.96 billion vs. $9.67 billion
CoinGecko's market data for Hyperliquid shows its 165 builder-run markets, almost all on stocks, indexes and commodities, did more volume than its 179 crypto perps as bitcoin fell 5%.
Influencer slingoor turned a $686,000 week into $9.38 million as bitcoin fell
DeepSea's 7-day KOL board changed fast in the November 5 sell-off. The top two influencers now hold 91% of the profit shown in the top 100.
Bitcoin fell 6%. DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders went from $98M to $256M
In about 18 hours, the 7-day profit of DeepSea's ten best wallets more than doubled. All ten trade perps on Hyperliquid, and the leader alone added $47.9 million.
DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders made $98.4 million in a week, all on Hyperliquid perps
The first 41 names on DeepSea's 7-day leaderboard are Hyperliquid perpetual futures traders. The leader made $16.44 million on $208 million of assets.
This week's worst crypto influencer lost $2.84 million and still bets $27.6 million on a fall
DeepSea shows the KOL wallet mk4 on Hyperliquid holding 11 short positions, led by $7.82 million against ether and $7.69 million against bitcoin, while both coins rose overnight.
177 crypto influencers made money in 30 days. Four others lost $19.8 million
DeepSea's 30-day KOL leaderboard looks like a winning month: 177 of 202 accounts are up. Then you reach the bottom, where Machi Big Brother alone shows minus $12.42 million.
The top crypto influencer of the week made $8.84 million and now sits on $25.5 million in USDC
DeepSea's KOL leaderboard puts "2 freres 2 fauves" first by a wide margin, three times the runner-up. Its latest Hyperliquid orders were in silver and copper markets, not crypto.
MachiBigBrother opened $145,405 of ETH longs in 25 seconds, six hours after the last burst
DeepSea's live feed caught the crypto influencer opening six ether long positions on Hyperliquid at 6:33 a.m. ET, after nine more just past midnight.
Two Hyperliquid wallets are up $20.7 million on open bets. The crowd is down $2.19 million
DeepSea's weekly data names the biggest paper winners on Hyperliquid, a 40x bitcoin short opened on October 31, and an ether short now 3.3% from forced closing.
Crypto influencers made $590,000 in 30 days. Sharks in DeepSea's live feed lost $10.7 million
DeepSea's 30-day realized profit table puts its live-feed KOL wallets in the green and shark wallets deep in the red. On Hyperliquid, one KOL opened a $538,000 silver short in nine minutes.
The CFTC cleared perpetual futures on US stocks. Cboe and Citadel filed legal action that day
On November 3, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said perpetual futures on single US stocks can trade on CFTC-registered exchanges for the first time. The same day, Cboe, Citadel Securities and Healthy Markets Association took legal action to stop it.
Hyperliquid's big traders bet $3.78 billion on a drop. One put $126 million on HYPE rising
DeepSea's tracked traders held six dollars of shorts for every dollar of longs last week. Against that tide, one wallet opened a $126.62 million HYPE long, and a 40x bitcoin bet sat 2.4% from liquidation.
What is staking? How proof-of-stake rewards work and how you can lose money
Staking means locking tokens to help run a proof-of-stake blockchain, in return for rewards paid in that token. The stake is collateral: validators that go offline lose a little, and on Ethereum those that break the rules can be slashed.
Token unlocks November 2 to 8: $1.05 billion due, led by HYPE, and Kite's float jumps 27%
Five scheduled unlocks this week add up to about $1.05 billion at November 2 prices, according to CoinGecko's calendars. Hyperliquid's HYPE is almost 80% of the dollar total, but Kite's KITE release is the biggest relative to what already trades.
FDV vs market cap: how to read a token's supply, with HYPE's 4x gap as a guide
Market cap is price times the tokens circulating today. Fully diluted valuation (FDV) is price times the whole supply, including locked tokens. The gap between them shows how much supply is still to come.
Token unlocks explained: cliffs, vesting and why unlocked does not mean sold
A token unlock is when tokens locked at launch, usually for the team, investors or a treasury, become free to move. Unlocks add to circulating supply and dilute holders, but an unlocked token is not a sold one: Hyperliquid insiders claimed far less HYPE than they could.
What are points programs in crypto? How they work and why points are not tokens
A points program scores what users do on a crypto product, such as deposits, trades or referrals, and usually hints that points will later become tokens. Points are not tokens: the project decides if, when and how they convert.
What is Hyperliquid? How the $188B-a-month onchain perps exchange works
Hyperliquid is a blockchain built for trading. Its HyperCore engine runs perpetual futures and spot order books fully onchain, and DefiLlama showed $188.1 billion of perp volume in the 30 days to November 2, 2026.
Hyperliquid's big traders flipped from 4.2x long to net short, then swung back to 86% long
In mid-October, traders tracked by DeepSea dumped their bullish bets and piled into ETH and BTC shorts worth more than $200 million apiece. Two weeks later they were leaning long again, even as prices kept sliding.
Asian exchanges lost $2.2 billion in one week, and $2.12 billion of it left Binance
DeepSea's report for October 12 to 18 shows stablecoins, mostly USDT on Tron, pouring out of Binance while bitcoin flowed in. The same week, hack-linked funds flooded exchange deposit addresses and a few big Hyperliquid traders turned short.
NYSE owner ICE wants Hyperliquid perps in America. What stands in the way?
Intercontinental Exchange plans to run Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures markets for US retail traders with Trade[XYZ], and is taking a minority stake. HYPE jumped almost 20% on the day, but nothing goes live until US regulators approve it.
Prosecutors say a Robinhood engineer bought Hyperliquid perps before 9 coin listings
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged two former Robinhood engineers with fraud, alleging they used secret listing plans to bet on Hyperliquid. Each allegedly made more than $50,000, and both are presumed innocent.