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By Evie Vavasseur
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How HIP-4 Actually Works. The testnet phase is where Hyperliquid stress-tests the whole thing.
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Why Prediction Markets Are Getting Crowded. Prediction markets have had a genuine moment over the past couple of years.
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Testnet Feedback Before Any Mainnet Push. The testnet phase isn't just about finding bugs. It's also where Hyperliquid collects user…
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Hyperliquid is adding decentralized prediction markets to its platform. The upgrade, called HIP-4, kicks off on testnet first — mainnet comes later, no firm date attached.
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Prediction markets have been around in crypto for years, but they've mostly lived on standalone platforms with their own liquidity silos and user bases.
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The testnet phase is where Hyperliquid stress-tests the whole thing. Before any of this touches real money at scale on mainnet, the team wants to see how the prediction market…
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What Hyperliquid is building here is basically a permissionless forecasting layer on top of its existing infrastructure. Users get direct access to market creation.
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That matters. Centralized prediction platforms have faced persistent questions about manipulation, opaque resolution processes, and the ability of operators to freeze or reverse…
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Prediction markets have had a genuine moment over the past couple of years. Political betting in particular pulled in users who'd never touched crypto before, and volumes on some…
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Hyperliquid's angle is integration. It's not launching a standalone prediction market app. It's adding prediction markets as a native feature inside a platform that already has…
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The testnet phase isn't just about finding bugs. It's also where Hyperliquid collects user feedback on the actual experience — how market creation feels, whether the resolution…
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And trust is kind of everything in prediction markets. If users suspect a market might resolve incorrectly — or that the process is opaque — they won't participate.
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More context: Prediction Markets Hit $113.8 Billion in Q2 as Kalshi Grabs 58.9% Share
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Still, no timeline means no accountability. The company hasn't said when testnet wraps, when mainnet goes live, or what additional features might ship alongside the prediction…
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