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Hyperliquid Oil Futures Hit $1.2B Trading Volume Amid Middle East Warfare

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Altcoin to Watch in February Hyperliquid (HYPE) Primed for a 50% Upswing

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Hyperliquid, the world’s leading decentralized exchange (DEX) for perpetual futures, has attained $1.29 billion in trading volume for its oil futures. This is now only rivalled by Bitcoin at $3.56 billion, while Ether is the second runner-up at $1.24 billion. The figure is also a 66.67% surge in volume from yesterday’s $720 million.

Hyperliquid trading pairs

Source: Hyperliquid

The hike has primarily been driven by the previous 30% upsurge in oil prices to $120 a barrel, due to the US-Iran war. News of an impending oil shortage spread due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the disruption of several energy producers in the Middle East.

However, at writing time, the Hyperliquid CL-USDC contract, which tracks West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, had a 24h trading volume of $1.99 billion. This represented a 10.78% drop after oil prices retreated to $85.32 a barrel following intervention from the G7 industrial nations and the International Energy Agency (IEA). The two will jointly release over 1.2 billion emergency barrels, which will be further cushioned by a surplus reported by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) last year.  Investors also speculate that the US military’s takeover would lead to resumption in global oil flows to pre-conflict levels.

a chart of oil prices following US-Iran wrangles

Source: Hyperliquid

Liquidations for long positions have now surpassed $40 million, with one whale losing a whopping $1.55 million.

Why Hyperliquid has recorded notable figures

Hyperliquid’s achievements (including $844M revenue for 2025) are attributed to its HIP-3 markets, which deal in Real World Assets (RWA) 24/7, with execution speeds and liquidity rivaling those of major exchanges. 

Silver remains the top-traded RWA due to high demand from artificial intelligence (AI) and electric vehicle (EV) developers. At press time, the industrial metal was trading at $87, having gained 5% in the last 24h.

Meanwhile, HYPE was trading at $35.20, up 16% in the day, following the DEX’s surge in trading volume.

HYPE token price

Source: CoinGecko

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Singapore Reclaims the Regional Crypto Lead at $284 Billion as the Rest of CSAO Shrinks

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Singapore is again the largest crypto economy in Central and Southeast Asia and Oceania. Chainalysis put activity there at $284 billion in the year to June 2026, up 55.4%. The wider region contracted 6.8% over the same window, July 2025 through June 2026.

The jump was not a retail wave. Institutional-platform activity rose 94% to $60 billion, concentrated in a small set of market makers, over-the-counter desks and institutional brokerages. Chainalysis told Cointelegraph the growth was “mostly high-volume activity by existing platforms rather than the dynamic entry of new services.” Outside that book, flows into centralized exchanges rose 30% and flows into decentralized exchanges rose 69%. Both moved. Neither explains the headline.

Australia was second at $173.1 billion. Total activity there fell 5.6%, mostly on a drop in DEX flows, while institutional-platform activity rose 33.3% to about $39.9 billion. India was still large, at $135 billion, but down 14.7% — one of the sharper declines in the set. It kept the region’s biggest centralized-exchange inflows, $88.4 billion, ahead of Singapore’s $82.3 billion and Australia’s $79.3 billion. Vietnam was fourth at $122.2 billion, then Indonesia at $83.2 billion, Thailand at $82.8 billion and the Philippines at $44.5 billion.

The other half of the report is the opposite market. The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam together logged 5.4 million peer-to-peer transfers under $10,000, domestic and cross-border. That is 14.4% of such transfers worldwide, from countries that are 2.5% of the global crypto economy. Thailand and Vietnam also ran sizable domestic stablecoin markets, $10.4 billion and $6.9 billion. Cross-border stablecoin flow was larger than domestic in those markets. Chainalysis tied that to speed, cost and ease of use, not to a trading desk in Raffles Place.

Read together, the region split. Singapore’s number is a financial-center number: existing institutional pipes, more volume through them, plus broader exchange flow while the Monetary Authority of Singapore has been tightening licensing and still backing tokenization and stablecoin settlement. India’s number is an exchange-inflow number that shrank at the top line. The Mekong and Philippine number is small tickets. Institutional platforms across CSAO processed $152.3 billion, up 40%, and took 18.9% of regional activity by the end of the second quarter. That share is rising. It is not the same thing as adoption.

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