Roundup of Recent Positive Developments for Hyperliquid: Kraken partnership continues to fuel token price gains, HYPE surges past $94 to set a new all-time high.

According to HTX market data, HYPE has surged past $94, hitting a new all-time high of $94.43, with a 24-hour gain of 9.1% and a market cap of $20.996 billion. Below is a roundup of recent positive developments for Hyperliquid: · Payward, parent company of Kraken, announced plans to offer on-chain perpetual contracts based on Hyperliquid to U.S. clients. Bitnomial, a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse under Payward, acts as the HIP-3 deployer, responsible for creating, owning, managing markets, and clearing trades. NinjaTrader Clearing, a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), will hold client accounts. · The U.S. SEC announced its "Innovation Exemption," granting conditional five-year exemptions to certain tokenized stock trading platforms, a boost for Hyperliquid’s expansion in the tokenized equity and real-world asset (RWA) space. · The HIP-3 market accounted for nearly 50% of the platform’s perpetual trading volume in summer 2026, up from around 2% at the start of the year. TradeXYZ’s stock market (including Nasdaq 100 and individual equities) remains dominant. Over the same period, total RWA perpetual trading volume across the market rose from ~$85 billion per month in January to ~$470 billion per month in June. · Hyperliquid’s perpetual contract trading volume over the past 30 days reached ~$240 billion, leading public chains/ecosystems (second-place Arbitrum recorded ~$47.2 billion, while Solana saw ~$46 billion). It holds a ~36% share of the Perp DEX market over the same period, with cumulative perpetual trading volume exceeding $5.3 trillion. · Hyperliquid recently launched the Manual Borrows feature, allowing users to borrow USDC or USDT using HYPE or BTC as collateral.