Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (NASDAQ: PURR)

Metric	Value
Total 2025 Revenue	$907.45 Million
Total 2025 Trading Volume	$3.02 Trillion
Gross Profit (2025)	$843.26 Million
Perpetuals Revenue	$848.32 Million
Spot Revenue	$40.08 Million
HYPE Tokens Burned (Cumulative)	37.8 Million
Value of Burned HYPE	~$1 Billion
Revenue Directed to Buybacks	99%
Peak 2025 Open Interest	$15.6 Billion
Average Daily Open Interest	$7.4 Billion
HyperEVM 2025 Gas Revenue	$8.69 Million
System Uptime	100%
Throughput Capacity	200,000 Orders Per Second
Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. Cash	$299.9 Million
Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. HYPE	12.5 Million Tokens
Hyperion DeFi Treasury (HYPE)	1.86 Million Tokens
Total Cumulative Users	~917,000
Peak Lending TVL	$1.52 Billion
HIP-3 Deployer Staking Requirement	500,000 HYPE
Foundation Validator Stake	55.8% (243.71M HYPE)

Company Overview

Hyperliquid operates a fully onchain financial system and execution environment that fundamentally shifts how perpetual derivatives and spot assets are traded globally. Engineered to bypass off-chain matching engines and centralized sequencers, the platform’s proprietary HyperBFT consensus mechanism allows validators to execute the order book directly within consensus. This enables an institutional-grade throughput of 200,000 orders per second with near-instant finality. During a fiscal year where the platform processed over $3 trillion in trading volume, Hyperliquid secured over 50% of the onchain perpetuals market share and generated $907.45 million in total revenue.

The ecosystem is split between HyperCore, which handles deterministically matched order books, margin logic, and liquidation engines, and the HyperEVM, a general-purpose smart contract environment launched in early 2025. Operating completely without external venture funding, an elite 11-person team scaled the protocol to an annualized run rate exceeding $1 billion based on second-half performance metrics. Unlike traditional technology companies or centralized exchanges, Hyperliquid employs a highly aggressive capital allocation model: approximately 99% of protocol revenue is directed as free cash flow toward open-market token buybacks, structurally compressing the circulating supply of its native asset, HYPE.

Institutional exposure to the platform’s underlying asset is facilitated through Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs), which are publicly listed, permanent-capital vehicles. Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (NASDAQ: PURR) represents the largest institutional commitment in this space, emerging from a merger to hold 12.5 million HYPE and $299.9 million in cash reserves. Additionally, Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD) operates as a leaner, active infrastructure participant holding 1.86 million HYPE. Together, these entities bridge traditional Wall Street capital markets with Hyperliquid’s decentralized execution rails.

Business Segments

Hyperliquid’s revenue is derived from highly integrated, distinct operational segments that feed into its shared liquidity environment.

• Perpetuals (Perps): Generated $848.32 million in 2025, accounting for 93.48% of total revenue.
• Spot Trading & Auctions: Generated $40.08 million in 2025, representing 4.42% of total revenue.
• HyperLiquidity Provider (HLP): Contributed $19.95 million in revenue share, representing 2.20% of the total.
• Note: Builder Codes generated $39.78 million and are classified as an infrastructure cost/revenue share under the broader Perpetuals category, while HyperEVM Gas generated $8.69 million (burned directly).

Perpetual Derivatives

Perpetual Derivatives constitute the undeniable core of Hyperliquid’s financial engine, generating $848.32 million on $2.9 trillion of trading volume. Operating with an average take rate of roughly 3 basis points, the platform heavily undercut traditional centralized exchange fees while maintaining deep liquidity. Perpetual trading encompasses 95% of all trading activity on the network. Hyperliquid initially achieved dominance within the crypto asset space, but the deployment of Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal 3 (HIP-3) transformed the segment.

HIP-3 enabled permissionless market deployment, allowing independent deployers who stake 500,000 HYPE to list equities, commodities, and tokenized real-world assets directly on the order book. This transition expanded the platform from a single venue into exchange infrastructure. Monthly HIP-3 volume exceeded $25 billion, with the segment capturing over 30% of total trading activity during peak periods. At one point, early momentum in Silver perpetuals reached $3.5 billion in daily volume, representing roughly 2% of total COMEX volume with comparable median spreads of 2.4 basis points.

Spot Markets

Spot operations generated $40.08 million in 2025. While spot trading only represented approximately 5% of overall platform activity, it served as a critical growth lever for the ecosystem. Spot trading was unlocked by Unit Protocol, an asset tokenization layer that permitted the native deposition of major external assets like BTC, ETH, and SOL directly into the Hyperliquid order book.

This segment fundamentally improved capital efficiency by unifying spot and perpetual margin environments, allowing traders and institutions to execute delta-neutral hedging, funding rate arbitrage, and basis trading natively. Spot ticker auctions generated an additional $5.28 million, whereby market deployers utilized a Dutch auction mechanism to acquire assets, permanently burning the HYPE paid in the process.

Builder Codes Infrastructure

Operating as an embedded B2B distribution channel, Builder Codes facilitated $78.83 billion in trading volume during 2025, generating $39.78 million for third-party developers. This system is distinct from a standard referral mechanism; it allows third-party trading terminals, wallets, and integrated financial applications to impose a transparent execution surcharge.

By the fourth quarter, trades routed through these custom front-ends accounted for 7.89% of the platform’s total volume. This segment represents virtually zero marginal cost to the protocol while vastly accelerating user acquisition across specialized retail and professional interfaces.

HyperLiquidity Provider (HLP)

The HLP functions as a community-owned market maker and liquidity vault. While it is classified functionally as a revenue driver (receiving a 1% allocation of protocol fees, reduced from a prior 3%), its primary purpose is bootstrapping ecosystem liquidity. In 2025, the vault generated $19.95 million in revenue distributions and achieved over $100 million in direct profit and loss (P&L) across various market-making and liquidation strategies.

History and Evolution

Hyperliquid’s 2025 operating year was defined by rapid infrastructure deployment and severe stress-testing under extreme market volatility.

• February: Hyperliquid launched the HyperEVM mainnet alongside the Unit Protocol, unifying spot and perpetual operations within a single onchain venue.
• March: The JELLY Crisis. A coordinated attacker manipulated illiquid markets to force $13.5 million in unrealized losses onto the HLP vault. Validators intervened within two minutes to delist the asset and settle contracts, compensating non-malicious users. This incident catalyzed the rapid deployment of onchain governance and delisting frameworks.
• May & June: The platform captured over 50% of the decentralized exchange market share. Concurrently, Hyperion DeFi emerged via a $50 million private investment in public equity (PIPE), becoming the first US publicly listed company to hold HYPE as a treasury asset.
• September: The network underwent a competitive selection process for its native stablecoin, USDH. Despite offering the lowest revenue-share terms at 50%, Native Markets secured the validator vote.
• October: The protocol experienced the “10/10 Crash,” triggered by a global tariff shock. Hyperliquid processed $10.3 billion in liquidations and over $30 billion in volume while maintaining 100% uptime, notably outperforming several centralized competitors that suffered outages. Mid-month, HIP-3 mainnet went live, transforming the platform into a permissionless infrastructure layer.
• December: Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. completed its merger to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker PURR. The year concluded with a validator vote passing with 85% stake approval to permanently retire 37.8 million HYPE (valued at roughly $1 billion) from the supply.

Products and Services

Hyperliquid delivers a vertically integrated suite of trading and financial primitives.

• Perpetual Derivatives Trading: $848.32 million (93.48%)
• Spot Trading: $40.08 million (4.42%)
• HyperLiquidity Provider (HLP): $19.95 million (2.20%)

HyperCore Execution Engine

HyperCore is the foundational layer matching all spot and perpetual orders, handling margin accounting, and executing liquidations entirely onchain. By embedding the exchange directly into the consensus layer, it eliminates intermediary sequencers, guaranteeing deterministic price-time priority.

HyperEVM Environment

Operating as a composability layer adjacent to HyperCore, the HyperEVM executes smart contracts using a dual-block structure: fast blocks every second with a 2 million gas limit, and larger throughput blocks with a 30 million gas limit. It enables developers to deploy lending markets, structured products, and yield strategies that interact directly with the core trading engine. Gas fees are permanently burned, removing an additional $8.69 million from token circulation in 2025.

USDH Native Stablecoin

Launched in late September, USDH is Hyperliquid’s native settlement asset. Engineered by Native Markets, USDH is backed by institutional reserves managed via BlackRock and Superstate. The architecture is designed to capture the estimated $200 million in annual interest income generated by the platform’s $4.8 billion stablecoin deposit base. 50% of the generated reserve yield is automatically routed back into HYPE token buybacks, fundamentally aligning the settlement layer with tokenholder value.

Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs)

The platform’s ecosystem includes public market vehicles engineered to compound and operationalize digital assets. Rather than acting as passive holding companies, entities like Hyperion DeFi launch liquid staking tokens (HiHYPE) and negotiate fee-sharing agreements, generating tangible operational yield from the underlying network infrastructure.

Brand Portfolio

Hyperliquid’s network scale is driven by a decentralized portfolio of infrastructure deployers, builders, and community organizations.

• Trade.xyz (XYZ): Generates highest HIP-3 volume.
• Felix: Significant lending TVL and HIP-3 volume.
• Kinetiq: Major liquid staking protocol.
• Based & Phantom: Leading front-end terminals.

Trade.xyz (XYZ)

Developed by the team behind Unit Protocol, XYZ is the dominant HIP-3 deployer, commanding approximately 85% of daily trading volume within the permissionless market segment. Utilizing USDC as a quote asset, XYZ provides comprehensive exposure to equities, indices, and major commodities like Silver and Gold, driving a 139% month-over-month volume expansion.

Felix

Felix originated as a lending protocol on the HyperEVM before pivoting to operate an onchain, non-custodial money account and exchange in partnership with Hyperion DeFi. Utilizing USDH as its primary collateral and quote asset, Felix lists competing markets such as SILVER and TESLA, offering makers and takers superior capital efficiency. Felix commanded 14% of network lending TVL, totaling $128 million.

Markets by Kinetiq

Affiliated with the network’s largest liquid staking protocol, Markets operates a flagship decentralized exchange focusing on traditional assets like the US500 and BABA. They are strategically positioned to launch an exchange-as-a-service platform in the future.

Front-End Terminals: Based and Phantom

These builders leverage the Builder Codes infrastructure to provide specialized trading interfaces. In just over a single quarter, Based and Phantom individually generated nearly $12 million in revenue. They cater to distinct demographics, with Based targeting localized retail acquisition and Phantom embedding execution seamlessly into established wallet workflows.

Geographical Presence

By utilizing decentralized architecture, Hyperliquid’s operations are borderless by default, sidestepping the geographic constraints, regulatory licensing delays, and customer acquisition costs typical of centralized exchanges.

• Global Onchain Operations: 100% (Revenue driver).
• United States (Policy Operations): 0% Revenue.

Washington, D.C. Policy Center

While trading operations are globally distributed, the platform’s regulatory advocacy is anchored in the United States. In February 2026, the Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) was established in Washington, D.C. as an independent 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Funded by a 1 million HYPE foundation grant (valued at $29 million), HPC engages lawmakers to advance a clear, regulated path for continuous, automated, onchain derivatives trading within U.S. capital markets.

Note: In compliance with current regulatory environments, the trading platform’s Terms of Use strictly prohibit trading access for U.S. persons.

Profit and Loss

Hyperliquid’s 2025 income statement reflects an incredibly lean cost structure, with cost of revenue operating at approximately 17% of gross revenues. The protocol operates without traditional corporate overhead, clearing expenses, or physical administration costs.

Metric	2025 Value
Total Revenue	$907.45 Million
Perpetuals	$848.32 Million
Spot	$40.08 Million
HLP	$19.95 Million
Cost of Revenue	-$64.19 Million
Builder Codes Share	-$39.78 Million
Unit Revenue Share	-$5.36 Million
HLP Expenses	-$19.05 Million
Gross Profit	$843.26 Million
Unlocks (Dilutive)	-$89.50 Million
Earnings	$753.76 Million

Note: Unlocks represent the USD value of team tokens distributed to fund growth, utilized in lieu of cash operating expenses.

Balance Sheet

Rather than a traditional corporate balance sheet, financial strength is measured via ecosystem Total Value Locked (TVL) and the disclosed balance sheets of the associated public treasuries (DATs).

Asset / Liability Category	Value
HyperEVM Total Value Locked (Q4)	$1.48 Billion
Lending Ecosystem TVL (Q4)	$816 Million
Platform Stablecoin Deposits	~$4.8 Billion
Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (PURR) Cash	$299.9 Million
Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (PURR) HYPE	12.5 Million Tokens
Hyperion DeFi (HYPD) HYPE	1.86 Million Tokens
Pending Unstake Value	7.50 Million HYPE
Total Staked Assets	436.48 Million HYPE ($14.35 Billion)

Cash Flow

Hyperliquid treats virtually its entire revenue stream as free cash flow returned directly to token holders through programmatic repurchases.

Cash Flow Metric	Value
Free Cash Flow Generation	~$1 Billion
Capital Deployed to HYPE Buybacks (2025)	>$800 Million
Total Capital Deployed (Inception to Date)	$983.2 Million
Annual Run-Rate Supply Absorption	~13%
HyperEVM Gas Burned	$8.69 Million

The protocol mechanically funnels 99% of its gross profit into open-market buybacks. Over 26 million HYPE tokens were repurchased in 2025 alone, cementing a deflationary dynamic that continually removes supply from secondary markets.

Board of Directors and Leadership Team

Hyperliquid’s influence spans the core development team and the executives managing its public corporate extensions.

• Jeff: Co-founder and CEO of Hyperliquid Labs. Architected the separation of HyperCore and HyperEVM to maintain determinism in trading while permitting general-purpose composability. Acts as the primary communicator for major protocol framing and governance proposals.
• Hyunsu Jung: CEO of Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD). Transitioned the company from a medical-device firm into a sophisticated multi-line digital asset treasury generating peak quarterly profits via validator and liquid staking operations.
• Bob Diamond: Chairman of Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (NASDAQ: PURR). A veteran of traditional finance, formerly serving as the CEO of Barclays, bringing immense institutional weight to the DAT landscape.
• David Schamis: CEO of Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. Holds extensive experience from leadership roles at Salomon Brothers and J.C. Flowers, pivoting his focus to digital asset treasuries upon encountering Hyperliquid’s infrastructure.
• Eric Rosengren: Independent Director at Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. As the former President of the Boston Federal Reserve, he bridges decentralized architecture with top-tier monetary policy oversight.
• Jake Chervinsky: Founder and CEO of the Hyperliquid Policy Center. Oversees D.C.-based advocacy aimed at integrating onchain perpetuals into U.S. regulatory frameworks.
• Brad Bourque: Policy Counsel at HPC. Formerly an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, advising on securities, commodities, and banking law.
• Salah Ghazzal: Policy Director at HPC. Co-authored the foundational proposal outlining the regulatory framework for perpetual derivatives in the U.S..

Subsidiaries, Associates, Joint Ventures

The Hyperliquid ecosystem operates alongside legally distinct but highly integrated corporate entities.

• Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (NASDAQ: PURR): A publicly listed Digital Asset Treasury established via merger, holding 12.5 million HYPE.
• Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD): A Nasdaq-listed DAT focused on operationalizing its 1.86 million HYPE treasury through staking, covered calls, and validator commissions.
• Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC): A 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. focused on regulatory research and advocacy.

Other Investments (Including Minority / Portfolio Holdings)

• Kinetiq x Pier Two Validator Node: Hyperion DeFi (HYPD) executed a joint agreement to operate a validator node within eight days of securing its funding, generating direct operational yield.
• Note: Further specific minority investments below 20% ownership are not explicitly disclosed within the current financial reporting texts.

Physical Properties (offices, plants, factories, etc.)

Hyperliquid’s technological infrastructure relies heavily on distributed cloud providers and bare-metal hosts to ensure uninterrupted uptime and bypass central failure points. The only disclosed physical corporate footprint tied to the ecosystem is the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Hyperliquid Policy Center.

Founders

• Jeff: Co-founder and CEO of Hyperliquid Labs. Championed the philosophy that decentralized finance is an upgrade to global financial rails, famously stating that “Hyperliquid is not a crypto company. It is a company using crypto rails”.
• Shoku: Lead developer and team leader behind both Unit Protocol and Trade.xyz. Instrumental in engineering the native asset lock-and-mint deposit architecture that catalyzed Hyperliquid’s spot trading success.

Parent

• N/A. Hyperliquid operates as a decentralized, community-aligned protocol overseen by validators and the Hyper Foundation, with no centralized corporate parent.

Investments and Capital Expenditure Plans

Rather than traditional plant and equipment expenditures, capital allocation focuses heavily on strategic ecosystem fortification.

• Hyperliquid Strategies S-1 Filing: In October 2025, PURR filed an S-1 registration statement aiming to raise up to $1 billion in additional capital to fuel massive institutional accumulation of HYPE.
• Policy Grants: The Hyper Foundation deployed a capital grant of 1 million HYPE tokens (valued at roughly $29 million) to fully fund the operations of the Hyperliquid Policy Center.

Shareholding Pattern

Control and influence over the network are determined via token distribution and validator stake.

• Hyper Foundation: Controls exactly 55.8% of the total staked supply (243.71 million HYPE) across five active validator nodes.
• Community Validators: 24 active validators hold 44.2% of the stake (192.77 million HYPE).
• Top 100 Stakers: Highly concentrated, holding 89.32% of the total staked capital.
• Institutional Backers (PURR): Deeply entrenched traditional and crypto venture capital funds, including Paradigm, Galaxy Digital, Pantera, D1 Capital, Republic Digital, 683 Capital, and Atlas Merchant Capital.

Future Strategy

Hyperliquid is actively shifting from an isolated decentralized exchange into universal execution infrastructure.

• Real World Assets (RWAs) and TradFi: The continued expansion of HIP-3 is paramount. By deploying perpetuals on global equities, commodities, and foreign exchange, Hyperliquid seeks to structurally decouple its revenue base from the cyclical volatility of the crypto market.
• Regulatory Shaping: Moving aggressively to shed the offshore “wild west” image of decentralized finance, Hyperliquid intends to work constructively with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to carve out a viable, legal framework for automated, transparent DeFi derivatives within the United States.
• Vertical Integration: With the launch of USDH, the platform is moving to internalize settlement and yield capture natively, positioning itself as a comprehensive neo-banking alternative that monetizes idle capital currently extracted by legacy stablecoin issuers.

Key Strengths

• Unmatched System Reliability: Throughout extreme market shocks, specifically the 10/10 Crash, Hyperliquid maintained 100% uptime while processing $10.3 billion in liquidations, succeeding where major centralized competitors suffered catastrophic blackouts.
• Superior Capital Efficiency: Unifying perpetuals and spot markets within the same execution layer dramatically lowers operational friction, making sophisticated delta-neutral and basis trading strategies highly efficient for institutional capital.
• Relentless Capital Return: Unlike inflationary tech platforms, Hyperliquid mechanically deploys nearly a billion dollars in free cash flow to buy and permanently burn its own token, ensuring deep structural alignment with holders.

Key Challenges and Risks

• Regulatory Exclusion: Operating strictly without Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols inherently blocks Hyperliquid from directly accessing retail and institutional capital in the United States, severely limiting total addressable market penetration.
• Institutional Custody Barriers: Without sophisticated multi-signature wallets, designated clearing entities, and legacy compliance guardrails, cautious asset managers are mechanically blocked from utilizing the platform despite superior execution metrics.
• Validator Centralization: Governance is highly concentrated. With only 24 non-foundation validators active and the Hyper Foundation retaining majority voting power (56%), the network leans closer to an efficiently managed board rather than pure, censorship-resistant decentralization.
• Incumbent Counter-Attacks: The protocol’s success inherently paints a target on its back. As onchain perpetuals gain mainstream legitimacy, multi-trillion-dollar TradFi institutions, exchanges, and prime brokers may deploy deep balance sheets and regulatory licenses to launch aggressively competitive products.

Conclusion and Strategic Outlook

Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. and the wider Hyperliquid ecosystem closed 2025 having executed an architectural and financial triumph rarely seen in modern markets. By inverting traditional exchange structure—building the execution engine natively into the blockchain consensus—they eliminated middleman latencies and captured almost an entire billion dollars in free cash flow utilizing just 11 personnel. Through the deployment of HIP-3, the launch of a native, yield-bearing stablecoin, and the integration of publicly traded DATs, Hyperliquid has ceased competing solely with other decentralized exchanges. It has positioned itself as the foundational ledger for a unified global financial system. The definitive test moving forward will be navigating the treacherous regulatory waters of the United States while fending off the inevitable counter-offensive from traditional financial monoliths.

FAQ Section

What is Hyperliquid? Hyperliquid is a fully onchain financial system and order book exchange that integrates spot and perpetual derivatives trading directly into its proprietary HyperBFT blockchain consensus.

How much revenue did Hyperliquid generate in 2025? The protocol processed over $3 trillion in total volume and generated $907.45 million in gross revenue.

What are Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs)? DATs are publicly listed, permanent-capital vehicles that hold and operationalize digital assets. In the Hyperliquid ecosystem, these include Nasdaq-listed entities like Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (PURR) and Hyperion DeFi (HYPD).

How does Hyperliquid allocate its profits? Instead of retaining earnings, the protocol mechanically directs roughly 99% of its revenue to the Assistance Fund to execute open-market buybacks, permanently burning HYPE tokens.

What is HIP-3? Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal 3 (HIP-3) is a framework that allows external developers to permissionlessly deploy customized perpetual markets—such as equities, real-world assets, and commodities—by staking 500,000 HYPE.

Why doesn’t Hyperliquid operate in the US? Hyperliquid currently operates without mandatory KYC requirements. Due to the lack of a clear regulatory framework for decentralized derivatives from the CFTC, its terms of service strictly block U.S. persons from trading.

What is the Hyperliquid Policy Center? It is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, funded by a 1 million HYPE grant, dedicated to conducting research and lobbying for a regulated path for DeFi in U.S. markets.

How does Hyperliquid ensure system stability during crashes? By running execution directly on distributed validators without centralized off-chain sequencers, the platform maintains 100% uptime, processing $10.3 billion in liquidations seamlessly during the October global market shock.

Official Site: https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/

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