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Story: Hyperliquid’s $400M Buyback Lifts Hype Token to Record High as Binance Strikes Back

By Pankaj K

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Binance Grabs Half the RWA Perps Market. Binance launched tokenized real-world asset perpetuals — RWA perps — and moved fast.

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Buybacks Drive Hype, But Revenue Risk Looms. Here's the core of Hyperliquid's current story: the platform takes its revenue and buys back its…

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AI Tokens Get a Cold Shoulder. Liu isn't buying the AI-crypto hype. Not most of it, anyway.

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Hyperliquid is growing fast. Over $400 million in token buybacks have pushed its native token, Hype, to a fresh all-time high of $86 — but Binance is now circling, and the…

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Alice Liu, Head of Research at CoinMarketCap, laid out the situation plainly. Bitcoin's recent wobble — it dropped to around $59,000 in June — didn't spiral into a full collapse.

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Binance launched tokenized real-world asset perpetuals — RWA perps — and moved fast. Per Liu, Binance captured around 50% of that market's share almost immediately, pulling…

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But it's not a clean sweep. Hyperliquid still leads in the decentralized exchange space. DEX leadership is something, and it's not nothing — but the centralized side of the…

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The tension between centralized and decentralized exchanges isn't new. It's kind of been the defining fault line of crypto market structure for years.

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Here's the core of Hyperliquid's current story: the platform takes its revenue and buys back its own token. Over $400 million worth of buybacks so far. The result? Hype is up 47.

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Liu's view is that the buyback strategy is directly responsible for the token's market performance. It's a straightforward mechanism — reduce supply, support price, reward holders.

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See also: Symbiosis Recovers $1.15 Million in Bitcoin After Massive 46 Billion Token Exploit

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The vulnerability is obvious, though. If revenue slows down, buybacks slow down. And if buybacks slow down, the primary engine driving Hype's price momentum loses fuel.

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So Hyperliquid's future is basically a question of whether it can hold enough market share to keep funding the machine.

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Her warning is direct: AI tokens without real-world utility face heavy competition from established AI stocks and companies, and some of them will probably decline sharply.

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She does carve out space for solid AI infrastructure projects — ones with genuine utility potential. But even those, she says, will likely come at discounted prices.

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