Papertrade surpassed $573 billion in notional trading volume in less than a day, instantly heating up sentiment across the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The ecosystem token ($HYPE ) is currently priced at 85.35 USDT, up 1.19% in 24 hours. According to data on the official website on October 11, since 22:00 Beijing time yesterday, open interest in this synthetic perpetual deployed on HyperEVM has reached $3.322 billion, while the margin backing all current positions totals just $20.29 million. Prices are based on the mid-price of the Hyperliquid order book BBO. Users trade directly against protocol LPs rather than using traditional order-book matching, with a focus on high leverage, zero slippage, and no funding rates. The native token ($PAPER) has a zero initial supply, with no premine or allocation for the team or VCs; the only source of minting is user losses or liquidations. Notional volume and open interest look impressive, but with margins this thin, do you think this reflects genuine demand, or are leverage-driven figures inflating the numbers?
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