HYPE surged hard this round, and controversy has followed.

Hyperliquid is currently most able to attract capital because it truly has trading volume, generates revenue, and has a very straightforward token buyback logic. The more active the trading is, the more platform fees the exchange earns, and the market is more willing to treat HYPE as an exchange token with “cash-flow imagination”—which is also why it managed to break out from a sea of copycat coins.
But as the price has climbed to this level, the related discussions have been growing more and more:
One side believes that Hyperliquid is no longer just a perpetual contract DEX; it’s moving toward a larger on-chain trading ecosystem. Spot, perpetuals, prediction markets, RWA assets—if all of them can eventually get going, HYPE’s valuation can keep being argued for.
The other side is also very direct in its skepticism: the valuation is already very expensive, the FDV has been pushed up high, and there’s still unlocking pressure from the team and contributors afterward. On top of that, perpetual contracts are businesses that regulators watch very closely— the bigger the platform, the less likely it can stay quietly in the gray zone and keep making money.
So the split around HYPE right now is whether the market is willing to give it more time, to slowly prove itself as an entry point into an on-chain financial ecosystem from an exchange token.
Short term: watch the price; long term: watch regulation, trading volume, buybacks, and unlocks.
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