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Today, Bloomberg reported on certain incumbent traditional exchanges raising concerns about the integrity and impact of markets for perpetual derivatives on Hyperliquid. These concerns are unfounded. Hyperliquid offers enhanced market transparency, publishing a complete onchain record of every transaction in real time, making it a uniquely hostile environment for insider trading or price manipulation. Hyperliquid’s transparency serves as a strong deterrent for misconduct and facilitates surveillance, detection, and investigation by regulators and law enforcement. Hyperliquid also offers 24/7 trading, an innovation that substantially increases market efficiency. Prices move whether traditional exchanges are open or not. Continuous trading eliminates gaps and discontinuities between legacy market hours, improving price discovery for all participants. Bloomberg correctly reports that U.S. law is not currently tailored for derivatives markets on public blockchains like Hyperliquid. We look forward to continuing our work with policymakers in Washington to bring onchain markets inside the regulatory perimeter.

The bipartisan passage of the Clarity Act out of the Senate Banking Committee is historic: the first time a comprehensive crypto market structure bill has advanced to the Senate floor. We appreciate all of the effort that went into this success, but more work is needed before the bill is ready to become law. We look forward to engaging on Capitol Hill and with the administration as the process continues.

Coinbase has announced its plan to activate AQAv2 on USDC as the treasury deployer, with Circle serving as the technical deployer responsible for CCTP and native cross-chain infrastructure. Both Coinbase and Circle have committed to stake HYPE to activate AQAv2. As part of this transition, Native Markets has agreed to terms granting Coinbase the right to purchase the USDH brand assets. With Coinbase, in its role as treasury deployer, sharing the vast majority of reserve yield revenue with the protocol, USDC will become the most aligned stablecoin on Hyperliquid. As a result, canonical outcome (HIP-4) markets will use USDC as the quote asset in a future network upgrade. User and builder feedback has been consistent that fragmentation leads to degraded experience; now, the community no longer needs to choose between liquidity and protocol alignment. The pioneering work of Native Markets in launching USDH as the first production-scale stablecoin sharing yield directly with a protocol in a purely onchain implementation made AQAv2 possible. The learnings and mechanics pioneered by USDH will live on in AQAv2. The Hyper Foundation will give grants to eligible HIP-3 deployers, HIP-1 deployers, and builders who integrated USDH, supporting teams through migration over the next months. These grants reflect an ongoing commitment to teams who choose to build on Hyperliquid and align with the protocol. USDH markets are fully functional but will sunset over time. USDH remains fully backed, with feeless conversions to USDC and fiat available to users during this transition.

The Hyperliquid protocol will implement Aligned Quote Asset v2 (AQAv2) on a future network upgrade. Based on user and deployer feedback, the AQAv2 spec will extend the designation of “aligned quote asset” to stablecoins that are not exclusive to Hyperliquid. Under AQAv2, stablecoin deployers share the vast majority of reserve yield revenue on their Hyperliquid supply with the protocol. AQAv2 will be a requirement for quote assets to be listed against HIP-4 and validator-operated perp markets on a future network upgrade. There is no trading fee or volume contribution benefit to AQAv2. Other quote assets will continue to be supported for other markets, including spot and HIP-3 perps. AQAv2 allows specification of a “technical deployer” and a “treasury deployer.” The treasury deployer will designate a treasury address which will share 100% of the AQA rate (the cost-adjusted onchain reference rate oracle) with the protocol through the onchain AQA mechanic. This is twice the rate of revenue share of the existing AQA spec. The treasury deployer must stake 500k HYPE, which is slashable if the treasury address does not have sufficient balance for onchain revenue to be deducted. The technical deployer must stake 500k HYPE and ensure reliable mint, redemption, and cross-chain transfer infrastructure for the aligned quote asset. Under AQAv2, the linked HyperEVM contract that connects to HyperCore will also rebalance with the treasury address. The HyperEVM balance corresponding to minted HyperCore tokens will be held in a ratio of 9:1 between treasury and technical deployer’s linked EVM contract addresses, respectively. More info will be added to the Docs.

Weekly Update Product & Tech + Portfolio margin limits have been increased: max account value to activate PM has increased to $5M and supply and borrow limits have increased according to global utilization. See Docs for more: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/trading/portfolio-margin. + Outcome trading now supports multi-outcome markets (aka "questions"). Different outcomes within a multi-outcome market are tied via "split" and "negate" operations. "Split" and "merge" have also been implemented for binary markets. The first multi-outcome market is a recurring BTC price range market that settles daily at 06:00 UTC to the BTC-USDC mark price on Hyperliquid. See Docs for more: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/trading/contract-specifications#recurring-outcomes. Additional features and markets will continue to be rolled out in stages. New Teams on the HyperEVM & HyperCore (in no particular order) + Ledger integrated Hyperliquid via builder codes: https://x.com/Ledger/status/2052025614018675054 + Onchain cc by Bitso integrated Hyperliquid via builder codes: https://x.com/onchaincc/status/2052856236555517984 + Blockaid added support for HyperCore: https://x.com/blockaid_/status/2052114208704356824 + Predictefy added support for HIP-4: https://x.com/Predictefy/status/2053836555043942432 + Liminal launched limUSD, yield-bearing tokens: https://x.com/liminalmoney/status/2051679757129941346 + Arcex built a mobile app for trading on Hyperliquid: https://x.com/ArcexApp/status/2052172389253845506 Community Highlights + Phantom reached $20M in builder code revenue on Hyperliquid in less than a year: https://x.com/HyperliquidX/status/2053970679846834202 + BAYN made an interactive map of the Hyperliquid ecosystem: https://x.com/baynPSD/status/2051748336219349137 + HypeRPC / HYPE Global hosted an event in Miami during Consensus: https://x.com/hypeglobal_/status/2054443071107141785 + The Hyperliquid annual event will take place on October 5 in Singapore during Token2049 week - this date is being shared in advance so builders and users can plan travel + Jeff will be speaking at KBW in Seoul this fall: https://x.com/kbwofficial/status/2052790007392535019

HPC strongly supports @ChairmanSelig's vision for the future of onchain markets: “I think it’s really critical that we set in place clear regulations and clear statutory protections for software developers, for people who hold their own crypto assets through self-custody or using a custodial wallet, exchanging your assets... That’s what this administration is really focused on.” Clear rules protecting developers and self-custodial users are the foundation of any workable framework for onchain markets.

Today, @SECPaulSAtkins laid out his priorities for providing clarity to onchain markets, including this on clearing and settlement: "When settlement is near-instantaneous and counterparty risk is managed algorithmically, the traditional clearing agency model requires fresh analysis." Onchain clearing and settlement is one of the most significant financial infrastructure innovations of our generation. HPC is encouraged to see a Chairman willing to map these systems to existing legal frameworks on their own terms, rather than force them into legacy categories built for legacy architecture.

Save the date: the Hyperliquid annual event will take place on October 5, 2026 in Singapore during the Token2049 week. Details will follow closer to the event. Sharing the date in advance so builders and users in the ecosystem can plan travel.

Outcome trading now supports multi-outcome markets (aka "questions"). Instead of independent binary markets, the different outcomes within a multi-outcome market are tied via "split" and "negate" operations for greater capital efficiency. "Split" and "merge" have also been implemented for binary markets. The first multi-outcome market is a recurring BTC price range market that settles daily at 06:00 UTC to the BTC-USDC mark price on Hyperliquid. Relative to the initial reference price, these markets support asymmetric upside and downside, as well as an intermediate price range. See Docs for more: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/trading/contract-specifications#recurring-outcomes. Additional features and markets will continue to be rolled out in stages. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Based on user feedback, portfolio margin limits have been increased. The maximum account value to activate portfolio margin has increased from $500k to $5M. Supply and borrow limits have also been increased according to global utilization. See docs for more: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/trading/portfolio-margin.

Weekly Update Product & Tech + Outcome markets (HIP-4) are live on mainnet as a limited-feature initial release. The first market is a recurring binary outcome that settles daily at 06:00 UTC to the BTC mark price on Hyperliquid. For more, see the previous announcement + Reminder that DEX abstraction will be discontinued in a network upgrade after May 17 to give builders additional time to migrate. See https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/trading/account-abstraction-modes for more Trading + MEGA hyperp was converted to a regular perp + Trade.xyz launched pre-IPO perps (IPOP): https://x.com/tradexyz/status/2050221965378761045 New Teams on the HyperEVM & HyperCore (in no particular order) + Trust Wallet integrated Hyperliquid via builder codes: https://x.com/TrustWallet/status/2049475221397160113 + Markets.xyz iOS app was released: https://x.com/markets_xyz/status/2048752260457378033 + Arkham integrated the HyperEVM: https://x.com/arkham/status/2049151291679785135 + HyperSwap terminal added support for HIP-4: https://x.com/HyperSwapX/status/2050534899682017307 + Outcome xyz added support for HIP-4: https://x.com/Outcomexyz/status/2050540249311547796 + Stratium added support for HIP-4: https://x.com/StratiumX/status/2050529712586494333 Community Highlights + Bloomberg featured a story on HIP-4: https://x.com/business/status/2049466941006368933

Outcome markets (HIP-4) are live on mainnet as a limited-feature initial release. As a reminder, outcomes are fully collateralized contracts that settle within a fixed range, useful for applications such as prediction markets and bounded options. They do not involve leverage or liquidations. The initial goal is to validate the technical implementation. The first market is a recurring binary outcome that settles daily at 06:00 UTC to the BTC mark price on Hyperliquid. See Docs for more: https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/trading/contract-specifications#recurring-outcomes. Additional features and markets will be rolled out in stages. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Validators will vote on whether to delist MAV, MAVIA, MEW, PROMPT, SCR, TST, USTC, YZY, ZEREBRO on May 5 around 9:00 UTC, based on stalequant's methodology and community request. If validators vote to delist an asset, the perps will settle to the 1 hour time weighted spot oracle price before the scheduled delisting voting time, and open orders will be canceled. Close any positions beforehand to avoid automatic settlement. After settlement, no new orders will be accepted.

Prediction markets work better onchain. Our comment letter to the @CFTC explains why, and makes the affirmative case for a pathway for Americans to access decentralized prediction markets. Read about HPC’s submission here:

http://x.com/i/article/2049822591372730368

The MEGA hyperp has converted to a regular perp. You can now long or short MEGA with up to 3x leverage. Listing is not an endorsement of the project. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do not trade assets you are unfamiliar with and do not understand the risks for. Exercise control. NFA. https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/MEGA

Weekly Update Product & Tech + Order priority fees are live on mainnet for all perps. See https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/for-developers/api/priority-fees for details Trading + CHIP perps were listed + VIRTUAL spot trading, deposits, and withdrawals went live via Unit Protocol New Teams on the HyperEVM & HyperCore + Blockchain.com integrated Hyperliquid via builder codes: https://x.com/blockchain/status/2046591643092922752 Community Highlights + Hyperliquid TR is hosting an event in Istanbul on May 2: https://x.com/Hyperliquid_TUR/status/2046662850324689262 and a community event is also taking place in Dubai on May 1: https://x.com/_LetMeDo_/status/2047269323543105854

Non-custodial front-end interface providers are not brokers, as the SEC rightly clarified in its excellent Staff Statement on April 13. Today, HPC joined DEF (@fund_defi) and dozens of others in requesting that the SEC formalize that Statement in notice-and-comment rulemaking.

Onchain perpetuals are the next evolution in derivatives markets, but U.S. law provides no pathway for Americans to participate. HPC exists to change that. Read more about our mission to advance new rules for decentralized markets in the United States:

http://x.com/i/article/2046950317682520064

By community request, you can now long or short $CHIP with up to 3x leverage. Listing is not an endorsement of the project. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do not trade assets you are unfamiliar with and do not understand the risks for. Exercise control. NFA. https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/CHIP

Weekly Update Product & Tech + Reminder that DEX abstraction will be deprecated two network upgrades from now. See https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/trading/account-abstraction-modes for details. Builders should take this opportunity to entirely discontinue DEX abstraction in their integration. Unified account is likely the best default for most users, as it merges spot and perps balances and supports cross margin for HIP-3. Automated traders should use Standard abstraction for the highest rate limits. Community Highlights + Community events are taking place in HK (April 21), Jakarta (April 23), SF (April 23), and Bangkok (April 24) over the next week: https://x.com/kirbyongeo/status/2044728325067993319

Hyperliquid entered the Congressional record for the first time today. @ChairmanSelig testified before the House Agriculture Committee and received a question about "decentralized exchanges like Hyperliquid." He said: "[O]ur goal is always going to be to onshore those markets and to have the markets subject to our regulation here in the United States and accessible to our U.S. persons here in the U.S. ..." We appreciate Chairman Selig's commitment to ensuring Americans can benefit from decentralized markets. It will take some effort to adapt the commodities laws, but we're confident this CFTC and its capable staff are up to the task.

HPC commends the SEC Staff and the Crypto Task Force for today's staff statement on front-end interfaces and broker-dealer registration. This is an important step toward regulatory clarity for crypto builders and market participants. The guidance reflects a commonsense principle: software developers who do not perform the customary functions of intermediaries should not be regulated as such. We look forward to continued engagement with the Commission on these issues.

Weekly Update Product & Tech + Gossip and order priority fees are now live on mainnet. See https://hyperliquid.gitbook.io/hyperliquid-docs/for-developers/api/priority-fees for details. Note that the maximum order priority fee was reduced from 20 bps to 8 bps based on user feedback. Order priority fees currently only apply to IOC orders on HIP-3 assets. Trading + The vault creation gas fee increased from 100 USDC to 10k USDC. This is meant to gradually deprecate legacy HyperCore vaults, which have been feature frozen for ~2 years. Vaults can be tokenized in a more configurable way as smart contracts on the HyperEVM using precompiles and CoreWriter. New Teams on the HyperEVM & HyperCore (in no particular order) + USDH launched zero-fee and zero-slippage fiat on and offramp: https://x.com/nativemarkets/status/2041901395566030923 + Hyperbeat launched their full liquid banking product: https://x.com/hyperbeat/status/2041878671179321849 + Azura integrated Hyperliquid via builder codes: https://x.com/AzuraTrade/status/2042301690125435200 Community Highlights + Colossus magazine published a profile on Jeff and Hyperliquid. A big thank you to Dom Cooke for telling this story: https://colossus.com/article/beyond-the-sky-jeffrey-yan-hyperliquid/ + Shaunda shared a dashboard to track Trade[XYZ] off-hours data: https://x.com/shaundadevens/status/2042956575564833007 + Hyperliquid IDN is hosting an event in Jakarta on April 23: https://x.com/hyperliquid_idn/status/2032587275620724895 + HypurrCo shared the latest info on regional chapters: https://x.com/hypurr_co/status/2042793135751991316

Treasury Secretary @SecScottBessent is absolutely right: "There is one way to give developers and entrepreneurs the comfort to reshore: durable law. Congress acted decisively with Genius, and the Clarity Act is the necessary next step."

RWA trading on Hyperliquid continues to reach new ATHs week after week, surpassing $2.3B in open interest

Weekly Update Product & Tech + A Hyperliquid mobile app is live on the Google Play Store as an initial MVP for testing. The initial MVP is intentionally limited in scope to iterate on user feedback re: feature prioritization and device-specific issues. Please share feedback in the Discord server + Testnet outcome trading of binary markets is eligible for mainnet-level bug bounties, effective immediately. Multi-outcome markets and frontend feedback are not in scope Trading + HIP-3 markets reached a new ATH of $2.3B in open interest + Accounts with >$10k in trading account value can now activate portfolio margin without any volume requirement. This allows new users to begin trading using portfolio margin immediately + Max leverage was reduced to 5x for INJ, LDO, OP, SEI, and TIA New Teams on the HyperEVM & HyperCore (in no particular order) + SushiSwap integrated Hyperliquid via builder codes: https://x.com/SushiSwap/status/2039789742233936354 + Ripple Prime integrated HIP-3 perps trading for institutional clients: https://x.com/mikehiggins/status/2038667689044971757?s=20 Community Highlights + Hyperliquid HK is hosting an event during the Web3 Festival on April 21: https://x.com/Hyperliquid_HK/status/2039722504412078418

Based on stalequant's methodology (https://stalequant.com/delisting_reco/index.html) and community request, max leverage was reduced to 5x for INJ, LDO, OP, SEI, and TIA. Note that max leverage decreases do not affect the liquidation price of open positions until they are modified. To reduce positions that exceed initial margin requirements under the new max leverage, use reduce-only orders. The first non-reduce-only order that modifies a position will subject it to the new max leverage and maintenance margin requirements. As a reminder, maintenance margin is half of the initial margin at max leverage. E.g., if max leverage is 10x, the maintenance margin is 5%.

Years ago, the CFTC was suing DeFi protocols. Now, @ChairmanSelig is championing what permissionless networks and onchain systems can do for the future of American finance. That vision, paired with the rules to match, is what will make America the crypto capital of the world.