Crypto asset supervisor Bitwise has known as Hyperliquid “some of the mispriced property in crypto as we speak,” regardless of its outperformance to date this yr.
“Hyperliquid is likely one of the most essential crypto initiatives to emerge in years,” Bitwise funding chief Matt Hougan stated in a word on Tuesday.
“Its native token, HYPE, is the best-performing large-cap crypto asset of 2026, up 77% YTD [year to date]. And but I nonetheless assume buyers are underestimating its influence and its worth.”
Bitwise launched a HYPE exchange-traded fund on the New York Inventory Alternate on Friday. 21Shares launched an identical HYPE fund earlier that week, which drew solely $1.2 million in web inflows, low in comparison with different altcoin ETF debuts.
Hougan stated HYPE’s mispricing is partly as a result of market valuing Hyperliquid solely as a perpetual crypto futures change, when it needs to be priced as a “international super-app.”
Hyperliquid’s fundamental focus is the favored sector of crypto perpetual futures buying and selling, however the platform additionally has buying and selling linked to shares, prediction markets and different property, with Hougan including that the platform sees almost half of its quantity tied to non-crypto property.
Supply: Matt Hougan
Different crypto platforms have additionally appeared to increase past simply crypto, with many main US crypto exchanges, similar to Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini, working to increase into prediction markets and tokenized equities buying and selling to shore up their stability sheets.
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SEC Chair Paul Atkins has additionally given his help to “super-apps” that may custody and commerce a number of property on one regulatory license. He has tasked the regulator with exploring the way it can enable tokens tied to securities to commerce on platforms it doesn’t regulate.
Hougan argued that Hyperliquid “has turn out to be the ‘super-app’ Atkins envisioned — a ‘non-SEC regulated platform’ providing buyers publicity to ‘quite a lot of asset courses.’”
He added, nevertheless, that the platform “nonetheless must mature” as it isn’t obtainable within the US and would wish to combine itself into the nation’s regulatory system.
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes was additionally bullish on HYPE in a March weblog publish, saying the platform may proceed to see its token rally if it continues to drag quantity away from centralized exchanges and increase its product choices.
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