HYPE can outperform bitcoin and ether even in tight liquidity because Hyperliquid's buybacks create internally generated demand. It earns roughly $11-12 million of weekly fees and routes most of it to buybacks, while bitcoin depends on inflows and ether on its ecosystem. With 30-year yields above 5%, crypto trades as long-duration risk, but ETF-era capital is rotating within crypto into HYPE, Solana and XRP rather than leaving. HYPE's fundamentals have little to do with bitcoin's price. x.com x.com
