While regulators blocked Polymarket in India, Indonesia, and Spain this week, Hyperliquid quietly shipped HIP-4 outcome contracts for real-world events. Users can now bet on CPI prints and Fed decisions from the same account they use for crypto perps. No external oracle. No UMA. Validators settle everything.
Hyperliquid's SPACEX-USDH perpetual crashed 45% on Thursday, from $2,277 to $1,254 in a single 30-minute window. It liquidated 405 users across 1,393 positions, erasing $1.51 million. The median liquidated position held $31 in margin. The market had $4.87 million in daily volume and under $2.9 million in open interest. One candle ate all of it.
Hyperliquid generates close to $1 billion in annualized revenue. Almost all of it buys back and burns the token. Hayes set a $150 target. The price is $43. Something has to give.
A token built around AI hype collapsed 70% after on-chain investigators exposed extreme supply concentration. The rest of the losers list told a more familiar story: a macro risk-off week, revenue pressure in DeFi, and a July token unlock hanging over Worldcoin like a known weight.
