Shorts made up 53.78% of the positions, compared with 46.22% for longs; the long-to-short ratio was 0.86.
Onchain trading in tokenized stocks and ETFs topped $37 billion in the quarter, but the totals cover different products and are not directly comparable.
An address linked to the firm sent 41,400 HYPE to FalconX about a month earlier and held 296,100 tokens valued at $22.96 million in the latest update.
DeFi TVL rose 0.98% over the week to $90.16 billion. Hyperliquid L1 and Arc gained sharply, while Ethereum, Solana and Tron recorded declines.
According to data firm Dune, during Q3 2026, the notional volume traded in stock perpetual contracts, ETFs, and indices on Hyperliquid reached $201 billion. This figure cements the rapid expansion of these decentralized derivative instruments in markets that did not even exist on the platform a year ago.
The address held 18,121.87 ETH as Ether traded at $2,408.30, compared with 9,093.17 ETH on Oct. 20.
The purchase was valued at $10.23 million. The company's cash balance fell by $10 million to $245.3 million.
NEAR Protocol has rolled out cross-margin on its Hyperliquid-powered perpetuals platform, allowing trading positions to share a single perps balance while retaining what the project describes as confidential trading. NEAR Protocol announced the feature on Oct.
The combined positions carried about $49.97 million in exposure after a roughly $1.27 million improvement in unrealized profit and loss.
Short positions accounted for about $18.50 million of the total, while Aguila Trades had four partial liquidations of its Bitcoin long on Oct. 22.
The launch highlights the vulnerability of synthetic exchanges to external market influences, posing risks for traders and liquidity providers. Hyperliquid market orders of up to $20M moved Papertrade prices at launch.
The significant early demand and activity on Hyperliquid could signal growing confidence and interest in synthetic-perpetuals markets. $20M market orders on Hyperliquid drive papertrade price at launch.