🔥 Hyperliquid Hits Record High as $1.2 Billion Token Unlock Looms.
Image: DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief A scheduled unlock will release 14,175,778 Hyperliquid tokens on August 29, worth about $1.2 billion at current prices. The release equals 1.4% of total supply and 2.7% of HYPE's market capitalization. Nearly 47% of the unlocked tokens go to insiders the largest single share of this release. Hyperliquid, the layer-1 blockchain and perpetual futures exchange, is on a tearand investors in the projects native token HYPE are reaping the benefits. Hyperliquid, which trades as HYPE, touched an all-time high of $83.27 on Sunday before slipping to around $77.50, data from CoinGecko shows.
The token's market cap sits near $19.5 billion. That run-up, though, is about to collide with a supply release the tracking site Tokenomics.com lists as the largest of Hyperliquid's monthly unlocks. Every month since the November 2024 launch, Hyperliquid has freed a slice of its 1 billion-token supply on a fixed calendar. The August 29 event is the fourth in a row to send tokens to three recipient groups: community, foundation, and insiders. Insiders (the early investors) take the largest single share of this release46.6%, against 46.3% for the community (grants, rewards, airdrops, etc.) and 7% for the Hyper Foundation.
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