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Hyperliquid Saved Itself a $15 Million Loss, but Sparked Criticism - Ep. 807

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Perpetual swap DEX Hyperliquid suffered a whale attack and was on the brink of losing $15 million. It promptly responded in a way that generated a fair amount of controversy.

The founder and CEO of Ambient Finance Doug Colkitt joined the show to explain:

  • How perp swaps work
  • How a whale used the low-liquidity memecoin $JELLY to attack Hyperliquid’s vault
  • How Hyperliquid’s response broke DeFi taboos around decentralization, oracles, etc.
  • Criticisms of and justifications for the team’s decisions
  • What can be done to prevent similar attacks in the future

Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com

Thank you to our sponsors!

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Timestamps:

👋 0:00 Intro

🤔 02:59 What is Hyperliquid?

🐳 05:16 How a whale used $JELLY to attack

⛔ 09:19 How Hyperliquid responded

📈 11:59 Why did Binance and OKX suddenly list the memecoin?

🤔 16:32 How did Hyperliquid ‘change the rules’ to protect themselves?

⚖️ 19:25 ‘Losses for thee, but not for me’: Hyperliquid’s hypocrisy?

💡 24:39 Doug’s ‘cleaner’ solution

👀 28:35 Will this have positive or negative knock-on effects?

🧹 31:20 Tidying up illiquid markets

📰 32:46 Crypto News Recap

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Perpetual swap DEX Hyperliquid suffered a whale attack and was on the brink of losing $15 million. It promptly responded in a way that generated a fair amount of controversy.

The founder and CEO of Ambient Finance Doug Colkitt joined the show to explain:

  • How perp swaps work
  • How a whale used the low-liquidity memecoin $JELLY to attack Hyperliquid’s vault
  • How Hyperliquid’s response broke DeFi taboos around decentralization, oracles, etc.
  • Criticisms of and justifications for the team’s decisions
  • What can be done to prevent similar attacks in the future

Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com

Thank you to our sponsors!

Guest

Links

Timestamps:

👋 0:00 Intro

🤔 02:59 What is Hyperliquid?

🐳 05:16 How a whale used $JELLY to attack

⛔ 09:19 How Hyperliquid responded

📈 11:59 Why did Binance and OKX suddenly list the memecoin?

🤔 16:32 How did Hyperliquid ‘change the rules’ to protect themselves?

⚖️ 19:25 ‘Losses for thee, but not for me’: Hyperliquid’s hypocrisy?

💡 24:39 Doug’s ‘cleaner’ solution

👀 28:35 Will this have positive or negative knock-on effects?

🧹 31:20 Tidying up illiquid markets

📰 32:46 Crypto News Recap

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  continue reading

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