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By Maheen Hernandez
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RWAs Overtake Bitcoin Perpetuals in July. The Q2 data was strong, but July made things even more dramatic.
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Holder Count Jumps 56% in a Single Month. The trading volume story gets more interesting when you look at who's actually buying in.
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Tokenized real-world assets basically took over Hyperliquid last quarter. HIP-3 RWA perpetual contracts hit 32.
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The raw numbers are pretty striking. RWA trading volume on Hyperliquid reached $213 billion during the second quarter, according to the platform's own quarterly report.
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The Q2 data was strong, but July made things even more dramatic. Between July 13 and July 19, RWAs became the single largest trading category on the platform, accounting for 52%…
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By the end of July, RWA perpetual futures had nearly matched Bitcoin perpetual contracts in trading volume on Hyperliquid. Specifically, they reached 99.
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It's worth sitting with that for a second. RWAs didn't just grow — they caught up to the most traded asset class in DeFi derivatives.
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The trading volume story gets more interesting when you look at who's actually buying in. The number of RWA holders jumped 56% over the past month, reaching 1.6 million investors.
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And it's not just happening on Hyperliquid. Per data provider RWA.xyz, the total value of onchain tokenized assets across the broader market climbed 3.3% to $37.8 billion.
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Hyperliquid's HIP-3 standard seems to be capturing a lot of that demand. The quarterly report doesn't go into detail about which specific RWA categories drove the most volume,…
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The buyback program is worth a closer look too. Returning $141 million to HYPE token holders in a single quarter is a meaningful signal about how Hyperliquid is thinking about…
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Whether that pace of buybacks continues depends on whether revenue holds up. The report doesn't spell out forward guidance, and no specific future strategy was disclosed.
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What's already clear is that the platform's bet on RWA infrastructure is paying off in volume terms. Going from 20.7% of trading volume in Q1 to 32.
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The 1.6 million holder figure is also a useful gut-check on adoption. A year ago, "RWA trading" was mostly a talking point at conferences. Now it's a category with 1.
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