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Capital & DeFi

20 connected articles.

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Portfolio Margin on Hyperliquid

How Hyperliquid unifies eligible spot balances and perpetual positions into one risk-managed portfolio.

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Lending, Borrowing, and Carry Trades on HyperCore

How Portfolio Margin creates borrowing demand, supply yield, and spot-perp carry strategies.

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Portfolio Margin Risk and Liquidations

How Hyperliquid evaluates a whole Portfolio Margin account and why liquidation order can be non-deterministic.

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HIP-1: Hyperliquid's Native Token Standard

How native spot assets are created and indexed inside HyperCore.

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HIP-2 Hyperliquidity Explained

How Hyperliquid bootstraps native spot liquidity with a protocol-level automated order-book strategy.

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How a Token Launches on HyperCore

From HIP-1 deployment auction to genesis balances, spot pair creation, and Hyperliquidity.

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HIP-3: Builder-Deployed Perpetual Markets

How builders deploy independent perpetual DEXs while inheriting HyperCore's order books and margin engine.

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HIP-3 Oracles and Market Pricing

Why a builder-deployed perpetual is only as credible as its reference price and market operations.

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HIP-4 Outcome Markets Explained

How Hyperliquid's fully collateralized outcome contracts price discrete events without perpetual leverage.

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Outcome Markets vs Perps vs Options

Three ways to express market views with different payoff shapes, margin systems, and settlement rules.

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HLP and HyperCore Vaults Explained

How Hyperliquid vaults pool capital, how HLP differs from user-created vaults, and what depositors are exposed to.

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How Interest Rates Work in Hyperliquid Portfolio Margin

Portfolio Margin turns eligible idle assets into a lending pool and prices borrowing primarily from utilization, so rates rise as available liquidity becomes scarce.

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Supply Caps and Borrow Caps in Hyperliquid Portfolio Margin

Supply and borrow caps limit how much of an asset can enter Portfolio Margin lending and how much can be borrowed, containing concentration and liquidity risk at the asset level.

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HYPE as Collateral in Hyperliquid Portfolio Margin

HYPE can support Portfolio Margin exposure subject to an asset-specific collateral factor, so its collateral value is deliberately lower than its spot market value.

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The Spot Long + Perp Short Carry Trade on Hyperliquid

A spot-long, perp-short carry trade tries to neutralize directional price exposure while earning a spread such as positive funding, but basis, borrowing, execution, and liquidation risks remain.

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Basis Trading on Hyperliquid

Basis trading focuses on the price relationship between spot and derivatives rather than outright direction, but the spread can widen, funding can change, and execution can dominate expected convergence.

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User-Created Vaults vs HLP on Hyperliquid

HLP is a protocol vault with defined system roles, while user-created vaults are strategy vehicles run by individual leaders; they share a vault interface but not the same mandate or risk.

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Vault Leader Risk, Lockups, and Withdrawals on Hyperliquid

A vault depositor delegates economic exposure to a strategy they do not control trade by trade, so leader behavior and withdrawal constraints are core risks rather than operational details.

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HIP-3 Collateral and Capital Fragmentation

HIP-3 lets builders create independent perpetual market groups, but independent collateral choices and margin domains can fragment capital that would otherwise net across one shared risk pool.

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How HyperEVM Lending Composes With HyperCore Portfolio Margin

HyperEVM lending and HyperCore Portfolio Margin are separate credit systems that can be combined through asset transfers and strategy design, but their collateral rules and liquidation engines do not automatically become one.