Tag: Hyperliquid

FinTelegram has published its DeFi Compliance Perimeter as an evergreen framework for reviewing DeFi brokers, investment schemes, and supporting rails. The goal is simple: to define the new compliance perimeter before the next retail-investor damage cycle scales.

ESMA has now said the quiet part out loud: many derivatives marketed as crypto perpetuals are likely CFDs in the EU. For Hyperliquid and front ends like AXIOM, that raises major questions around leverage, retail targeting, appropriateness, and investor protection.

FinTelegram will increasingly focus on DeFi brokers and DeFi investment schemes alongside offshore casinos. The reason is simple: the perimeter game has not disappeared. It has evolved. What binary options and offshore brokers once did through shell structures and payment agents is now being rebuilt through DeFi-branded interfaces, on/off-ramp layers, wallet logic, and outsourced execution rails.

AXIOM presents itself as a decentralised trading platform, but its own materials describe a branded, fee-based crypto service stack with wallet functionality, no-KYC onboarding, yield features, and leveraged perpetuals trading. For EU compliance analysts, that raises a central MiCA question: is this really “DeFi,” or a brokerage-like access layer inside the regulatory perimeter?

Hyperliquid's utility token HYPE is no longer trading anywhere near the “>$40 in June 2025” regime that many holders still anchor to. Using widely-cited price points, HYPE traded around $41.50 on June 10, 2025 (after breaking $40) and is now around $24.5–$24.6 on January 2, 2026. That’s roughly a ~58.8% drawdown from the Sep 18, 2025 ATH.

Hyperliquid markets itself as a non‑custodial, permissionless DEX for perpetual futures, thereby positioning its high‑risk leverage products outside traditional licensing regimes. In substance, however, Hyperliquid operates a foundation‑controlled Layer‑1 with closed‑source infrastructure, a concentrated validator set, and discretionary market intervention powers that closely resemble a CEX without formal custody.

Hyperliquid — one of the most hyped DeFi perps venues of the post-2024-halving cycle — just recorded weekly net capital outflows of more than $430 million (third-largest weekly outflow on record, per widely cited Dune tracking). At the same time, Bitcoin is ~30% below its peak and a growing set of analysts argue the market is already shifting into a bearish regime. Read our Hyperliquid compliance report!

DeFi platforms such as Axiom and Hyperliquid present themselves as “permissionless infrastructure,” yet in practice they function as highly profitable trading venues for leveraged derivatives and cross-chain swaps, serving EU retail users at scale. Under MiCA and existing EU securities law, these are not unregulated parallel universes.

The Hyperliquid USDH stablecoin proposal, led by Paxos, marks a pivotal step in merging compliance, DeFi innovation, and token incentives. This report dissects what USDH aims to be, the mechanics behind it, and the ongoing debates that have surfaced in the crypto community. It raises key questions for insiders regarding transparency, governance, and ecosystem impact.

Paxos has proposed USDH, a Hyperliquid-first stablecoin where ~95% of reserve interest (e.g., T-bill yield) would be used for...

How can a utility token access deeper liquidity and price discovery—without turning into a security token? Within the EU’s MiCA/MiFID II framework, one workable route is to publish a transparent index of crypto-native activity, deliver that index through a signed oracle, and let venues list perpetual futures on the index.

Keep your token in MiCA and route derivatives liquidity to venues that shoulder MiFID II obligations. Our Hyperliquid tests show why the split matters: EU access to perps without KYC is a venue risk, not a loophole for issuers.