What is Hyperliquid?

Hyperliquid (HYPE) is a Layer-1 blockchain built for trading, best known for its perpetual-futures and spot DEX. The whole order book runs on-chain — every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation is transparent and settled in price-time priority — which is what separates it from a typical centralized exchange model. Beyond the flagship perps DEX, the ecosystem has added spot trading, lending/borrowing, real-world assets (RWAs), and a full EVM on its own chain.

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Market Snapshot

Where it trades: the coin is live on several curated exchanges right now — OKX, Bybit, Bitget, MEXC (0% maker / 0.05% taker fees — cheapest of the bunch), and KuCoin.

Usage signal (per DefiLlama): Hyperliquid's perps protocol is the big revenue driver — roughly $4.1M in daily fees, of which ~$3.3M is protocol revenue; its spot order book adds another ~$128K daily fees. The bridge holds about $6.45B TVL.

Recent news: Hyperliquid Hits Record High as $1.2 Billion Token Unlock Looms — Decrypt.

Risk factors:

• No on-chain security data is returned for HYPE (it lives on its own L1, which GoPlus doesn't cover), so the usual lock/tax/honeypot checklist doesn't apply here.
• The recent headline centers on a large upcoming token unlock — supply events like that can add sell pressure, worth watching.
• Team identity and the tokenomics/vesting unlock schedule can't be verified by any tool available here — that Decrypt headline is the only window into the unlock, and I can't independently confirm who runs the project or the exact vesting calendar.

This is information, not advice — how you weigh the trading-platform model and the unlock situation is your call.