When Aster launched its token in September 2025, crypto Twitter crowned it the Hyperliquid killer. For a few weeks, it even topped the daily fee charts. A year later, the dust has settled. Hyperliquid still rules on-chain perps, while Aster has...
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What Is PaperTrade? How It Works, PAPER Token & Is It Legit
PaperTrade is an onchain perpetual futures exchange on HyperEVM that mints its PAPER token to traders who lose. It offers up to 1000x leverage on BTC and ETH with zero fees, zero funding and zero slippage. Losing trades fund the liquidity pool, and...
Netflix SBF Series, Airdrop Deadlines and Another Busy Week in Crypto
The Netflix SBF series has caught my attention this week. But before we get into that, a quick update from my side. I've been doing a bit more press lately. Funny enough, most of it has been European. A German TV crew just finished following me...
Biggest DEX Airdrops Ever: From Uniswap to Hyperliquid
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 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...
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