The biggest DEX airdrop ever is Hyperliquid's HYPE drop from November 2024. It sent 310 million tokens, 31% of the supply, to roughly 94,000 wallets. On day one, that was worth more than a billion dollars. Within a month, the value had grown to...
hyperliquid
Hyperliquid vs Lighter: Which Perp DEX Should You Trade On?
Hyperliquid and Lighter are the two perp DEXs that matter most right now. One dominates on-chain derivatives. The other gives retail traders zero fees and cryptographic proof that every fill is fair. Both paid out massive airdrops, and farmers...
Hyperliquid Bloomberg Terminal Listing: What It Means for HYPE
Hyperliquid perps are now live on the Bloomberg Terminal. Professional traders can type WSL HYPE <GO> and watch 22 Hyperliquid perpetual markets stream around the clock. However, the feed is data only. Nobody can place a trade through the...
PCE Inflation Sends Bitcoin Above $85K: My Trades and What Comes Next
Bitcoin just pushed to $85,400. The whole market is green with it. One data release did that. August PCE inflation landed at 8:30 ET and came in cooler than anyone expected. Growth data beat at the same time. I was long BTC, ZEC and HYPE before the...
Hyperliquid Insider Trading Probe: Congress Wants Jeff Yan’s Records by October 13
Three weeks ago I wrote about Lazarus wallets moving $30 million through Hyperliquid while the CFTC review was pending. I called it the compliance story nobody wanted to talk about. Today Congress decided to talk about it. On September 29, House...
Best Perp DEXes in 2026: 7 Platforms That Actually Have Volume
Perp DEXes stopped being the experiment years ago. On-chain perpetuals now clear more than $20 billion in daily volume across the category. The top venues compete directly with mid-tier centralized exchanges on speed, liquidity, and listings. That...
Bitget vs Hyperliquid: Which Exchange Wins After the Hack?
Bitget vs Hyperliquid became a real question overnight. On September 24, 2026, Bitget confirmed a hack worth around $350 million. Within hours, crypto X had one answer: move to Hyperliquid. That advice has a point. Hyperliquid never holds your...
How to Buy HYPE (Hyperliquid) for the First Time
You can buy HYPE two ways: natively on Hyperliquid, the decentralized exchange it powers, or on a centralized exchange like Bybit or OKX. Unusually, the native route is the better one for most people. Buying on Hyperliquid takes no KYC, gives you...
NEAR Confidential Perps Launch: My Shopping List Pick Doubles to $3
NEAR confidential perps went live this week, and the token exploded 22% to reclaim the $3 level. The new product lets traders open perpetual futures positions without publicly linking trades to their accounts. Hyperliquid provides the perp markets...
Recent Articles
AirdropAlert Newsletter








