➥ The HIP-3 Landscape (Updated Dec '25)
HIP-3 is turning
@HyperliquidX into a competitive layer where deployers compete for order flow, volume, and trader attention.
Let’s look at how the major deployers are positioning themselves within the HIP-3 landscape 🧵
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► The Core Economics Behind HIP-3
HIP-3 lets deployers launch their own perps exchange by staking 500,000 HYPE. Staker yield depends on how much trading activity the market generates.
How the economics work:
▸ Fees are shared between Hyperliquid, the deployer, and stakers
▸ Only a small portion reaches stakers
▸ Daily volume remains the main driver of yield
What influences returns:
▸ Growth Mode lowers taker fees to attract traders but reduces shared revenue
▸ Deployers cover oracle and operating costs before passing any yield on
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► HIP-3 Landscape
HIP-3 is now supported by several deployers, each focused on different market segments and asset types.
These teams define the early structure of HIP-3 and compete for traders and liquidity.
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@tradexyz /
@unitxyz
TradeXYZ is an early HIP-3 deployer focused on US tech stocks, AI names, and high-volume synthetics.
Live assets:
▸ XYZ100
▸ Equities:
$TSLA,
$NVDA,
$AMZN,
$GOOG,
$PLTR,
$NFLX,
$META,
$MSFT,
$HOOD,
$MSTR,
$APL and more
▸ GOLD
Key features:
▸ Broad large-cap tech and AI coverage
▸ Up to 20x leverage
▸ Growth Mode with taker fees near 0.009%
▸ Roughly $4.9B in cumulative volume
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@ventuals
Ventuals focuses on exotic and private-market style assets, bringing frontier tech and pre-IPO themes into HIP-3.
Live assets:
▸ SPACEX (pre-IPO synthetic)
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$OPENAI
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$ANTHROPIC
▸ Private-equity style synthetics
▸ MAG7 (Magnificent 7 index)
Key features:
▸ Private-equity inspired market design
▸ Oracle protection with mark bands
▸ Roughly $30M in cumulative volume
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@felixprotocol
Felix brings stock and crypto-equity perps on-chain using
$USDH as collateral.
Live assets:
▸ TSLA
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$COIN
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$CRCL
Key features:
▸ Equity and crypto-equity listings
▸ Up to 5x leverage
▸ Discounted fees with USDH
▸ Roughly $93M in cumulative volume
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@hyenatrade
HyENA is a
$USDe-margined HIP-3 deployer that turns trading collateral into a yield-bearing asset built by
@BasedOneX and
@ethena.
Live assets:
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$BTC
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$ETH
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$SOL
Key features:
▸ USDe margin earning native yield
▸ HLPe vault combining basis yield and market-making returns by
@upshift_fi
▸ Six-month points program
▸ Growing traction as a new entrant
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► Why this matters
Equities and HIP-3 are quietly carving out a bigger slice of the main perps market like BTC and ETH, as highlighted in
@artemis's report:
- Launched with $24M (0.25% of perp volume)
- Soared to a $514M (8% ) peak
- Holding strong at a ~5% share
HIP-3 transforms Hyperliquid from a curated exchange into a groundbreaking "market factory" or "exchange-of-exchanges."
Think of it as the "AWS of liquidity," where shared infrastructure slashes costs and speeds up innovation. This evolution enables 24/7/365 trustless tokenized indices and stocks on-chain.
Hyperliquid.
h/t for
@hyperzap_io dedicated HIP-3 dashboard