Happy $HYPE ATH $HYPE at $90 🥳

The most common criticism of Hyperliquid's buyback policy: burning ~99% of fees on HYPE instead of reinvesting in growth is bad capital allocation. That critique assumes Hyperliquid is a company optimizing ROI on retained earnings. It isn't. It's a neutral network, and the buyback is the alignment mechanism, not a wasted opportunity. You need to hold HYPE to build on Hyperliquid. trade[XYZ] had to buy 500k hyperliquid:native just to become a HIP-3 deployer, before a dollar of their own revenue. The AF routes 99% of protocol fees straight into HYPE buybacks. So every dollar of value XYZ generates for the network flows back into the exact token they were required to hold to operate. Their upside isn't just their fee split, it's the appreciation of the entry ticket itself. That's not "wasted" capital, it's the trust model: a neutral venue can't have a team discretionarily deciding who gets funded out of protocol revenue. But growth capital isn't gone either. Separate from the fee engine, Hyperliquid still holds roughly $27B in future emissions and community rewards it can deploy and the two times it's actually chosen to spend from that basket are the best evidence for why people should trust them. ▫️The HYPE airdrop, funded entirely outside any VC allocation, is the reason this is one of the only tokens in the space with genuine trust and a famously meritocratic reputation. ▫️In February, a 1M HYPE grant, worth ~$29M then, ~$83M now, built the HPC. Six months later, that spend sits behind the CFTC publicly committing to bring Hyperliquid onshore, which just repriced the entire forward-looking earnings case for the token. Two different pools of capital, two different jobs. One turns revenue into permanent alignment. The other proves that when discretion is used, it's used well. Neither is Hyperliquid leaving growth on the table. You can't grade any of this against normal company capital allocation, either. A normal company doesn't generate ~$1B in annual revenue on a ten-person team. Hyperliquid.

This is pretty big Traders will be able to use their $HYPE and other assets to BORROW $USDC and use it for whatever (i.e. not take a trade) Thing of borrowing and offramping, borrowing and buying a house, borrowing and... This is mega bullish

For the second time this year, Hyperliquid’s daily buyback has surpassed $5M (first time was 6 months ago in February). It would not surprise me if we saw this several more times in the coming months given where we are in the market cycle. Hyperliquid

Wondering what happens to $HYPE when @tradexyz launch Anthropic pre-IPO market…

We entered/entering in a phase where everyone is starting to believe we only go up i wonder what happens next

My essay on why $HYPE is going to $150 by August 2026. open.substack.com/pub/crypto…