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Data updated 20 Sep 2026, 19:00 UTC

Notes & definitions

Overview

  1. 1.Price data updated daily.
  2. 2.Market cap and FDV are computed from the price shown above — circulating supply × price and max supply × price respectively — so the figures on this card agree with each other. They can therefore differ slightly from a third-party market cap quoted against a different price tick. Circulating supply reflects tokens in active circulation per on-chain data.
  3. 3.Circulating supply excludes locked/vested allocations; max supply is 1,000,000,000 HYPE.
  4. 4.Revenue run-rate is an annualised estimate derived from protocol fees (hl_revenue). The range spans the trailing 30-day and trailing 90-day run-rates, not daily variability within a single window.
  5. 5.Buyback yield computed from hl_af_buyback_metrics: annualised trailing-30-day AF buyback value divided by circulating market cap.
  6. 6.Tracks Hyperliquid's share of total DEX perpetual futures volume.
  7. 7.Staking yield reflects annualised network staking rewards distributed to validators and delegators.

Financials

  1. 1.The breakdown table is gross fees and the figures above are protocol revenue, both from the ASXN income statement, so the two reconcile line by line. Total fees run above revenue because builder fees, the HIP-3 deployer share, HyperEVM gas and priority burns never accrue to the protocol. Take rates are shown for perp, spot and HIP-3 fees, each over its own notional volume. The HIP-3 rate is far lower because most HIP-3 markets run in growth mode, which cuts fees by 90% or more. Builder fees, HyperEVM gas, auction proceeds and priority fees have no volume denominator and show no rate.

Events

  1. 1.Tape reaction: Faro data, detection automated. Unlocks and buybacks: HYPE's return vs BTC from 24h before the event to 48h after; inside ±5% is neutral, an incomplete window shows none. News rows report the article's sentiment (Bullish / Neutral / Bearish), not a measured price move.
  2. 2.Next unlock: projected from the emission schedule in Hyperliquid's whitepaper — not a confirmed or on-chain claim. Actual timing and size may differ.
  3. 3.Next cliff: the next scheduled emissions tranche in Hyperliquid's whitepaper — a schedule, not a confirmed future claim.

Supply & buybacks

  1. 1.AF buybacks ÷ HYPE actually claimed out of the locked genesis buckets, trailing 30 days. Actual claims measure HYPE that leaves the buckets and arrives in wallets. Faro crawls Hyperliquid's own API for this, and each claim carries a transaction hash. Faro reports this ratio on two denominators against one buyback numerator; the scheduled version sits alongside. Windows with no new supply give no finite ratio, and Faro omits them.
  2. 2.AF buybacks ÷ scheduled unlock amounts, trailing 30 days. Scheduled amounts come from the vesting schedule, and they arrive a day or more after each monthly cliff. This is a reference figure; the claims-based version is the headline. Faro reports both ratios on one buyback numerator. Windows with no new supply give no finite ratio, and Faro omits them.
  3. 3.Buyback yield: Faro-derived metric — annualised trailing-30-day AF buyback value ÷ market cap.
  4. 4.Total supply change: Faro-derived metric — the trailing-30-day change in HYPE total supply, i.e. tokens burned by the priority, HIP-3 and spot fee burns. Assistance Fund buybacks are not in this figure: the fund holds the HYPE it buys, so those tokens leave circulating supply but stay in total supply. Unlocks are not in it either — they move tokens from locked to circulating without changing total supply, so this is not a measure of whether circulating supply is growing. The absorption ratio is.
  5. 5.Contributor vesting continues through 2027–28, with future emissions occurring on scheduled cliffs. Allocation percentages are approximate and may shift with on-chain activity.

Valuation

  1. 1.Run-rate multiples annualise trailing-30-day protocol fees rather than using trailing-twelve-month revenue, so they price the current fee pace instead of the past year's.
  2. 2.Price / holder earnings: market cap ÷ protocol revenue after the Assistance Fund pass-through, over the same TTM or 30-day window as price / sales. Revenue and buybacks both come from the ASXN income statement, so the pass-through is measured on one ledger rather than inferred across two. Price / sales uses that same revenue with no haircut; pass-through typically runs 97–99%, so this multiple sits slightly above price / sales — they are not the same figure.
  3. 3.Growth is year-over-year revenue growth. "n/a" means the peer has no comparable prior-year figure; "n/m" that the comparison is not meaningful.
  4. 4.Buyback yield: annualised trailing-30-day AF buyback value ÷ market cap — circulating or fully diluted, as labelled.
  5. 5.S&P 500 buyback yield is the index's trailing-twelve-month buyback yield, shown as an equities benchmark for the figures above it.
  6. 6.Coinbase shareholder yield combines buybacks and dividends as a share of market cap — a blended shareholder-return benchmark shown alongside HYPE's buyback-only yield. Faro editorial estimate, refreshed periodically rather than pulled from a live feed.

Street estimates

  1. 1.Qualitative call — no numeric target published.
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Overview

HYPE is the native token of Hyperliquid. It trades at $90.84, giving a $20.21B market cap and $90.84B fully diluted valuation. The Assistance Fund routes 97–98% of protocol revenue into open-market HYPE purchases, a buyback yield of 3.9% on circulating supply. Over the last 30 days the protocol collected $99M in gross fees, and the Assistance Fund spent $65M buying 710.5K HYPE. Buybacks covered 1.47x the HYPE that holders claimed out of vesting, and 0.07x the full whitepaper schedule.

HYPE price

Live HYPE price, Hyperliquid.

Key facts

Price
$90.84
All-Time High
$94.48
Highest on record (Sep 2026), per CoinGecko.
vs. All-Time High
-3.9%
30-Day Range
$74.12 – $94.23
Faro's high and low over 30 days. Sampled periodically, so the ATH above can sit slightly higher.
Market Cap
$20.21B
Circulating supply × price.
Fully Diluted Valuation
$90.84B
Max supply × price.
Circulating Supply
222.4M
Excludes locked and vested tokens.
Total Supply
955.3M
All tokens that exist, locked or not.
Revenue Run-Rate
$573M – $819M
Annualised. Range spans the 30-day and 90-day run-rates.
Buyback Yield
3.9%
Annualised AF buybacks ÷ market cap.
Perp Market Share
44%
Share of DEX perp volume, tracked venues.
Staked Amount
442.0M HYPE
Delegated to validators.
Staking Yield
2.2%
Annualised network staking rewards.

¹ Faro data

Financials

Hyperliquid has generated $675M in trailing-twelve-month revenue, primarily from perp trading fees ($692M TTM, 76.1% of the $910M gross fee total). Run-rate revenue is $573M–$819M with an effective perp take rate of 0.035%.

Run-rate (band)
$573M–$819M

Hyperliquid protocol revenue (ASXN income statement), annualized. Band spans the trailing 30-day and 90-day run-rates.

Revenue TTM
$675M

trailing 12mo

Cumulative revenue
$1.12B

since Mar 2025

Perp take rate (30d)
0.035%

Trailing 30-day perp take rate: perp fees (ASXN income statement) over perp notional volume (Hyperliquid Info API). The breakdown table below shows a separate rate per fee category.

Fee Breakdown

Source30-DayTTM% of Mix (TTM)30d Take Rate
Perp Fees$71.7M$692.1M76.1%0.035%
HIP-3 Markets$7.5M$70.1M7.7%0.0084%
Spot Fees$3.7M$39.2M4.3%0.066%
Builder Fees$10.6M$78.9M8.7%n/a
HyperEVM Gas$1.7M$11.2M1.2%n/a
Auction Proceeds$377.6K$7.9M0.9%n/a
Priority Fees / Burns$3.7M$10.8M1.2%n/a
Total Fees$99.4M$910.0M100%n/a

Run-Rate Revenue Band

Annualised revenue range (low–high) spanning the trailing 30-day and 90-day run-rates

Events

Hyperliquid's Assistance Fund executes daily HYPE buybacks, most recently AF buyback: 14,903 HYPE on Sep 19, 2026. The next scheduled token unlock is 2026-10-06.

Upcoming

Next unlockⓘ2026-10-06

9,916,666 HYPE

Next cliffⓘTBD

future emissions tranche

GovernanceNo active votes
ETF decisions48 pending
24 events
DateTypeEventTape reaction1
Dec 6, 2026UpcomingunlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,667 HYPE(data pending)
Nov 6, 2026UpcomingunlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,667 HYPE(data pending)
Oct 6, 2026UpcomingunlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,666 HYPE(data pending)
Sep 19, 2026buybackAF buyback: 14,903 HYPE(data pending)
Sep 18, 2026buybackAF buyback: 33,124 HYPEFavorable
Sep 17, 2026buybackAF buyback: 20,788 HYPEFavorable
Sep 16, 2026buybackAF buyback: 27,310 HYPEFavorable
Sep 15, 2026buybackAF buyback: 38,882 HYPENeutral
Sep 14, 2026buybackAF buyback: 25,231 HYPENeutral
Sep 13, 2026buybackAF buyback: 13,853 HYPENeutral
Sep 12, 2026buybackAF buyback: 6,903 HYPENeutral
Sep 11, 2026buybackAF buyback: 32,996 HYPENeutral
Sep 10, 2026buybackAF buyback: 23,538 HYPEUnfavorable
Sep 9, 2026buybackAF buyback: 25,908 HYPENeutral
Sep 8, 2026buybackAF buyback: 19,891 HYPENeutral
Sep 7, 2026buybackAF buyback: 15,481 HYPENeutral
Sep 6, 2026unlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,667 HYPENeutral
Sep 6, 2026buybackAF buyback: 14,757 HYPENeutral
Sep 5, 2026buybackAF buyback: 9,325 HYPENeutral
Aug 6, 2026unlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,667 HYPENeutral
Jul 6, 2026unlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,666 HYPENeutral
Jun 6, 2026unlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,667 HYPEUnfavorable
May 6, 2026unlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,667 HYPENeutral
Apr 6, 2026unlockCore Contributors unlock: 9,916,666 HYPENeutral

1 Faro data · detection automated. Unlocks and buybacks: HYPE's return vs BTC from 24h before the event to 48h after; inside ±5% is neutral, an incomplete window shows none. News rows report the article's sentiment (Bullish / Neutral / Bearish), not a measured price move.

Supply & buybacks

The buyback yield is 3.9%, with a 30-day absorption ratio of 1.47x — buybacks are fully absorbing the supply actually claimed into float.

Absorption ratio — actual claims (30d)1
1.47x

AF buybacks cover 1.47x the HYPE that holders claim out of the locked genesis buckets.

Absorption ratio — scheduled (30d)2
0.07x

Against the vesting schedule instead, the same buybacks cover 0.07x.

Holders claim far less than the schedule releases. The claims-based ratio therefore reads higher.

Buyback yield3
3.9%
Total supply change (30d)4
-86,181.66
Float
22.2%

Buybacks and burns

AF buybacks$1.10B
30-day total supply change-86,182 HYPE
Circulating float (% max)22.2%

Absorption ratio: AF buybacks ÷ actual claims

Trailing 30-day window. AF buybacks ÷ HYPE actually claimed out of the locked genesis buckets, measured on-chain with a transaction hash per claim. Above 1x = buybacks more than cover the tokens that actually reached wallets.

Allocation

Future Emissions38.89%
Genesis Distribution31%
Core Contributors23.8%
Hyper Foundation Budget6%
Community Grants0.3%
HIP-20.01%

Unlock calendar, 12mo (M tokens)

DateBucket
Scheduled (whitepaper)
Actual claims have run well below schedule.
Oct 2026
Contributor vesting9.9M
Nov 2026
Contributor vesting9.9M
Dec 2026
Contributor vesting9.9M
Jan 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M
Feb 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M
Mar 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M
Apr 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M
May 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M
Jun 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M
Jul 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M
Aug 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M
Sep 2027
Contributor vesting9.9M

Absorption ratio: AF buybacks ÷ scheduled unlocks

Trailing 30-day window. The same buybacks ÷ the vesting schedule's realized unlock amounts. Shown for reference — actual claims have run below schedule, so this reads lower than the claims-based ratio.

Total supply change, monthly (burns)

Change in HYPE total supply (tokens): burns, which are not reported per category anywhere upstream. Assistance Fund buybacks are not in this figure — the fund holds the HYPE it buys, so those tokens leave circulating supply but stay in total supply. Unlocks are not in it either: they move tokens from locked to circulating without changing total supply, so this is not a measure of circulating supply. Negative = supply removed.

Green = net deflationary month

Monthly Perp Volume

Monthly perpetual futures volume (USD)

Valuation

HYPE trades at 29.9x TTM revenue (circulating) and 134.6x FDV — compared to Coinbase (8.2x) and Robinhood (21.8x).

Multiples gridCirc TTMcirc · run-rate1FDV · TTMFDV · run-rate1
Price / sales29.9x24.7x134.6x110.9x
Price / holder earnings²30.5x25.4x137.1x114.1x
PeersRevenue TTMMultipleGrowth3Cap return
HYPE (circ.)$675M29.9x+52%3.9%
HYPE (FDV)$675M134.6x+52%0.9%
Coinbase$6.28B8.2x-17%-0.4%
Robinhood$4.93B21.8x+32%0.0%
Lighter / LIT$58Mn/an/mn/a
GMX$10Mn/an/mn/a

P/S (circ, run-rate¹) vs own history

Log scale — equal chart distances represent equal % change
25.1x

Yield Lens

HYPE (circ.)
3.9%4
HYPE (FDV)
0.9%4
S&P 500
1.8%
Coinbase
-0.4%

Street estimates

Published fair-value targets for HYPE range from $49 to $360, with a median of $118.

price $91
low $49median $118 (+29%)high $360

Published fair-value targets

AuthorMethodTargetvs priceDate
Quant models (agg)technical$49–56-46% – -38%rolling
Multicoin Capitaleverything-exchangeconstructive1—Jun 25, 2026
DCo ResearchCME revenue comp$60-34% – -34%Mar 13, 2026
Arthur Hayescash-flow returns$150+65% – +65%Mar 1, 2026
Coincub (cons.)CEX share scenario$50–120-45% – +32%Q1 2026
Axel Bitblazefair-value model$360+296% – +296%Q1 2026
Coincub (bull)CEX share scenario$180–300+98% – +230%Q1 2026

Published, attributable models only; paraphrased and linked. ⁷ no numeric target published.

Change log Jul 28, 2026: Quant models (agg) added · Jun 25, 2026: Multicoin Capital added · Mar 13, 2026: DCo Research added · Mar 1, 2026: Arthur Hayes added · Jan 1, 2026: Coincub (cons.) added · Jan 1, 2026: Axel Bitblaze added · Jan 1, 2026: Coincub (bull) added

FAQ

Data updated 20 Sep 2026, 19:00 UTC

About HYPE

What is HYPE?

HYPE is the native token of Hyperliquid, a Layer 1 blockchain built for on-chain derivatives and spot trading. The chain runs two linked components: HyperCore holds the order books, margin engine and liquidation logic, and HyperEVM runs smart contracts. HYPE pays gas on HyperEVM, secures the chain through staking, and absorbs protocol revenue through automated buybacks.

What is HYPE used for?

HYPE has four functions. It secures the network, because validators produce blocks in proportion to delegated stake under HyperBFT consensus. It pays gas on HyperEVM. It sets trading fee discounts through staking tiers. And it receives protocol revenue, because the Assistance Fund routes the large majority of trading fees into open-market HYPE purchases.

Who runs Hyperliquid?

Hyperliquid Labs builds the protocol. Jeff Yan and the pseudonymous co-founder iliensinc founded it in 2022, and the project raised no venture capital, so no investor allocation exists. Hyper Foundation supports ecosystem development and the token distribution. A permissionless validator set produces blocks, and token holders delegate stake to those validators.

What is HYPE's total and circulating supply?

HYPE has a fixed maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. Circulating supply is currently 222.4M HYPE, or 22.2% of maximum. The genesis airdrop released 31% of supply to roughly 94,000 users in November 2024, and core contributor tokens vest on a schedule that runs into 2027–28. See the Supply & Buybacks tab for the full allocation breakdown.

Positioning and flow

What is the HYPE funding rate right now?

Hyperliquid settles perpetual funding every hour rather than every eight hours, so HYPE funding accrues faster than on most venues. The current one-hour rate is 0.0013%, which equals 10.9% annualized. The trailing seven-day average annualized rate is 10.5%. A positive rate means longs pay shorts, and a negative rate means shorts pay longs.

How much HYPE did the Assistance Fund buy back over the last 30 days?

The Assistance Fund receives the large majority of Hyperliquid protocol fees and converts them into HYPE through continuous open-market purchases. Over the last 30 days it bought 710.5K HYPE, worth $66M. Cumulative Assistance Fund holdings now total 47.3M HYPE which is 4.7% of maximum supply. On an annualized basis, that 30-day purchase rate equals a buyback yield of 3.9% on circulating market capitalization.

What share of HYPE supply is staked?

Holders delegate HYPE to validators to secure the chain, and delegated stake is illiquid while it remains delegated. Staked supply currently totals 442.0M HYPE, or 46.3% of total supply. The current reward rate is 2.2%. Undelegating takes eight days in total: a one-day lockup, then a seven-day withdrawal queue.

When is the next token unlock, and how large is it?

Core contributor tokens follow a vesting schedule that extends through 2027–28, with cliff events at set intervals. The next unlock falls on Oct 6, 2026 and releases 9,916,666 HYPE, worth $920M at the current price and equal to 4.46% of circulating supply. The unlock calendar on the Supply & Buybacks tab gives a 12-month forward view.

How many HYPE tokens have been burned?

Cumulative burns are measured as max supply minus current total supply — one running figure covering every burn at once. It cannot be broken down by source: no burn figure is published in token units per category — only dollar fee totals, and fees collected are not tokens burned. Total tokens burned stand at 1.1M HYPE, which is 0.1% of maximum supply, and the figure updates daily with each pipeline run. Assistance Fund buybacks are not burns: the fund buys HYPE on the open market and holds it, currently 47.3M HYPE, which takes those tokens out of circulating supply but leaves total supply unchanged. They count toward capital returned, not toward the burn figure above. The cumulative figure sits on the Supply & Buybacks tab, beside the Assistance Fund's buyback spend.

How does HYPE trade against BTC on a catalyst?

Faro measures this with a tape reaction metric: HYPE's excess return against BTC across a window running from 24 hours before an event to 48 hours after it, gated on a minimum volume threshold so that thin prints do not register. Across the most recent 55 catalysts, median excess return was 1.6%, and HYPE outperformed BTC in 65% of cases. The most recent measured event was AF buyback: 33,124 HYPE, with an excess return of 11.1%.

Valuation

How is HYPE valued?

HYPE is valued using a combination of price-to-sales (P/S) and price-to-holder-earnings multiples, computed on both a circulating and a fully diluted basis. These multiples compare HYPE's market capitalization against protocol revenue from perpetual futures fees, spot fees, and other protocol income. Current multiples: 29.9x P/S on circulating supply and 134.6x on fully diluted valuation.

What is the P/E-style ratio for HYPE?

HYPE has no traditional P/E ratio, because it is not an equity security and it reports no earnings. The closest proxy is the price-to-holder-earnings ratio: market cap divided by protocol revenue after the Assistance Fund pass-through — the 97–99% of revenue that reaches holders via buybacks. That is not P/S, which uses pre-pass-through revenue, so the two multiples are not the same. That ratio currently stands at 30.5x on a circulating basis and 137.1x fully diluted.

What is the HYPE buyback yield?

Buyback yield states the annualized value of tokens the protocol repurchases, expressed as a percentage of market capitalization. It is computed on both a circulating supply and a fully diluted basis, and benchmarked against the S&P 500 buyback yield and Coinbase shareholder yield.

How does HYPE compare to Lighter (LIT)?

Lighter (LIT) is a decentralized perpetuals exchange on an L2 network, and it is the closest listed peer by product. In the peer comparison table, LIT revenue comes from the DefiLlama fees and revenue API, and LIT revenue growth is marked 'n/m' — not meaningful — because the available history is too short to support a comparison.

Method and sourcing

Where does this data come from?

Perpetual and spot market data comes directly from Hyperliquid's public L1 API. Token unlock schedules and peer protocol revenue come from the DefiLlama API. S&P 500 buyback yield is a Faro editorial estimate, refreshed periodically rather than pulled from a live feed. Coinbase shareholder yield is computed from Alpha Vantage's reported financials when available. Faro publishes the definition of every derived metric in the Notes & definitions section below, so any figure on this page can be reproduced.

How often does the data update?

Market data — price, funding, open interest, liquidations — refreshes every one to five minutes, depending on the feed. Supply, buyback and burn figures update daily with each pipeline run. Unlock schedules refresh daily. This page last updated at 20 Sep 2026, 19:00 UTC.