Hyperliquid negotiates deal to capture 90% of Circle’s USDC reserve yield for HYPE buybacks

Hyperliquid price rose 24% in six days as HYPE neared its ATH, helped by the CLARITY Act, USDC growth, Bitwise and SPCX.

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Hyperliquid’s lead in onchain perpetuals drew a fresh challenge from the Solana ecosystem after Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, known as Toly, argued that Solana needs its own atomically composable perp DEX inside the SVM. The debate comes as Hyperliquid is already trying to define its regulatory path in Washington during the advancement of the CLARITY Act. The exchange began with Hyperliquid co-founder Jeffrey Yan saying he had spent several days in Washington with the Hyperliquid Policy Center, meeting policymakers as the CLARITY Act advanced. According to him, the discussions focused on Hyperliquid, its potential benefits for American consumers, and the regulatory path for bringing onchain derivatives markets into the US framework. That policy push quickly collided with a separate market-structure debate on X, where Toly publicly encouraged users who enjoy Hyperliquid to try a new Solana-based perp DEX. The comment drew pushback from users, who questioned whether the industry n

Goldman simultaneously increased exposure to crypto infrastructure firms like Circle, Coinbase, and Galaxy Digital.

A wallet onchain linked to venture capital firm a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) by Lookonchain has quietly accumulated 2.11 million HYPE tokens worth approximately $90.87 million since April 14. Smart Money Bets on Hyperliquid Dip Blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged that wallet 0xb5E4, whose funding history and transaction patterns have led multiple analysts to associate it with […]

HYPE has been one of the most compelling stories in crypto since its launch in November 2024. While the broader market has faced sustained selling pressure and most assets have struggled to hold meaningful levels, Hyperliquid’s native token has demonstrated a resilience that has drawn attention from participants well beyond the DeFi ecosystem that originally embraced it. Related Reading: XRP Leverage Expansion Raises Risks Near $1.50 Resistance – A Big Move May Follow The project’s combination of genuine product traction, growing trading volume, and a token model that rewards network participation has made HYPE one of the few assets in this cycle that institutional observers have treated as a serious long-term allocation rather than a speculative trade. That institutional attention has now produced a data point that is difficult to ignore. Arkham Intelligence reveals that a wallet identified as linked to Andreessen Horowitz — the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known universally as