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By Bruce Buterin
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The $114 Million Token Transfer. The numbers are worth sitting with for a second. 1.775 million HYPE tokens. Staked.
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Hyperliquid ETF Context. The Hyperliquid spot ETF launched in May. That was already unusual — most asset managers chasing…
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What This Means for Hyperliquid. For the protocol itself, having an asset manager of Bitwise's profile stake this much is a…
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Bitwise just moved big. The asset manager transferred 1.775 million HYPE tokens to the Hyperliquid protocol — worth roughly $114 million — and staked them, deepening a bet it…
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That ETF launch was already a signal. But staking $114 million worth of HYPE tokens on top of it is a different kind of commitment.
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The numbers are worth sitting with for a second. 1.775 million HYPE tokens. Staked. Not just held in a cold wallet somewhere, not parked on a centralized exchange — staked inside…
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Hyperliquid has been building a reputation as one of the more serious decentralized perpetuals platforms in crypto.
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The staking piece matters for another reason too. Staking HYPE tokens isn't passive. It ties Bitwise's returns to the protocol's actual performance — fee generation, network…
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The Hyperliquid spot ETF launched in May. That was already unusual — most asset managers chasing crypto ETF approvals have focused on Bitcoin or Ethereum, the two assets with the…
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And now the token transfer makes the ETF strategy look more coherent. Staking 1.775 million HYPE tokens gives Bitwise direct protocol-level exposure that complements whatever the…
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Read also: Bitcoin ETF Investors Pull $5.94 Billion Over Six Weeks as Price Hits 21-Month Low
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No further details on Bitwise's plans for additional investments in Hyperliquid have been shared.
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It also probably makes other institutional players look twice. Nobody wants to be the first one into something unproven.
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Whether that translates into a broader wave of institutional interest in Hyperliquid specifically — or just validates the idea that non-Bitcoin, non-Ethereum protocols can…
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