Each week we pull the last seven days of Hyperliquid & HYPE coverage — Hyper Foundation announcements, HIP proposals, perps and spot markets, HIP-3 builder markets, RWA perps, HyperEVM DeFi, USDH, staking and buybacks, security events and regulation — then de-duplicate, rank by importance, cross-verify against a whitelist of sources and add our editorial take on every item.
Twelve API-verified stories — the Oct 8 cascade that liquidated $1.19B market-wide, a $330M team distribution routed OTC and absorbed without a dump, cumulative protocol revenue past $1.4B with >$1.26B to buybacks, a licensed S&P 500 perpetual among the platform's ten largest markets, and a −4.3% close at $86.65 — each with its source named.
Twelve API-verified stories — the cycle's largest unlock ($1.2B, Sep 29) absorbed with a +5.3% post-event return, AQAv2's first $14.58M reserve-yield payment measured, HYPE deployed multichain via Wormhole NTT, a listed treasury adding $167.2M, and a quiet −1.2% close at $90.57 — each with its source named.
Fifteen API-verified stories — HYPE prints a $98.00 record on Sep 23, Binance lists HYPE spot on Sep 24 and the token answers the sell-the-news question with a 4.6% drop, BVIV volatility perps launch, Hyperliquid Strategies adds ~$46M more HYPE, and fees hold at $17.71M (six prints, Sep 27 pending) — each with its source named.
Sixteen API-verified stories — HYPE gains 21.3% to $93.75 and sets a new $94.60 record, native lending goes live with $269M borrowed on day one, Payward plans permissioned HIP-3 markets for US clients, fees rise 49.8% to $19.3M, and the builder census shows HIP-3's share falling to 23.5% — each with its source named.
Sixteen API-verified stories — HYPE falls 12.1% to $77.26 after the $89.60 record, fees decline a fourth straight week to $12.9M, perp OI holds $10.3B while BTC dips just −0.8%, and the USDC reserve-yield deal reshapes the buyback engine — each with its source named.
Sixteen sourced stories — HYPE +9.9% to $87.94 with an $89.60 all-time high, a second unlock (9.92M HYPE, ~$820M) absorbed, fees $16.5M, HyENA's shutdown confirmed via API, cumulative burns at 48.45M HYPE — each with a summary, editorial take and the week's data snapshot.
Sixteen sourced stories — new all-time highs at $83.46 then $86.73, the record 14,175,778 HYPE unlock (~$1.2B) absorbed with +3.0% on the day, AQAv2 activated ahead of its Oct 3 first buyback, fees $21.2M, TVL up 4.4% counter-cyclically — each with a summary, editorial take and the week's data snapshot.
Sixteen sourced stories: the Aug 19 catalyst stack (Treasury's expanded buyback, a ~$2.74B market-wide short squeeze, Washington's CFTC comments), HYPE +44.3% to $82.37 breaking the May record, fees 3.1x to $24.6M, three days of ETF inflows — each with a summary, editorial take and the week's data snapshot.