Hyperliquid Docs
  • About Hyperliquid
    • Core contributors
  • Onboarding
    • How to start trading
    • How to use the HyperEVM
    • Connect mobile via QR code
    • Export your email wallet
    • Testnet faucet
  • Hyperliquid L1
    • L1 overview
    • Staking
    • HyperEVM
    • Bridge
    • API servers
    • Clearinghouse
    • Oracle
    • Order book
    • Multi-sig
  • Hyperliquid Improvement Proposals (HIPs)
    • HIP-1: Native token standard
    • HIP-2: Hyperliquidity
    • Frontend checks
  • Trading
    • Perpetual assets
    • Contract specifications
    • Fees
    • Builder codes
    • Order book
    • Order types
    • Take profit and stop loss orders (TP/SL)
    • Margining
    • Liquidations
    • Entry price and pnl
    • Funding
    • Miscellaneous UI
    • Auto-deleveraging
    • Robust price indices
    • Self-trade prevention
    • Portfolio graphs
    • Uniswap perpetuals
    • Hyperps
    • Market making
  • Vaults
    • Protocol vaults
    • For vault leaders
    • For vault depositors
  • Validators
    • Running a validator
    • Delegation program
  • Referrals
  • Points
  • Historical data
  • Risks
  • Bug bounty program
  • Audits
  • Brand kit
  • For developers
    • API
      • Notation
      • Asset IDs
      • Tick and lot size
      • Nonces and API wallets
      • Info endpoint
        • Perpetuals
        • Spot
      • Exchange endpoint
      • Websocket
        • Subscriptions
        • Post requests
        • Timeouts and heartbeats
      • Error responses
      • Rate limits
      • Bridge2
      • Deploying HIP-1 and HIP-2 assets
    • HyperEVM
      • Dual-block architecture
      • Raw HyperEVM block data
      • Interacting with HyperCore
      • HyperCore <> HyperEVM transfers
      • Wrapped HYPE
      • JSON-RPC
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About Hyperliquid

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Last updated 5 days ago

What is Hyperliquid?

Hyperliquid is a performant blockchain built with the vision of a fully onchain open financial system. Liquidity, user applications, and trading activity synergize on a unified platform that will ultimately house all of finance.

Technical overview

Hyperliquid is a layer one blockchain (L1) written and optimized from first principles.

Hyperliquid uses a custom consensus algorithm called HyperBFT inspired by Hotstuff and its successors. Both the algorithm and networking stack are optimized from the ground up to support the unique demands of the L1.

Hyperliquid state execution is split into two broad components: HyperCore and the HyperEVM. HyperCore includes fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books. Every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation happens transparently with one-block finality inherited from HyperBFT. HyperCore currently supports 200k orders / second, with throughput constantly improving as the node software is further optimized.

The HyperEVM brings the familiar general-purpose smart contract platform pioneered by Ethereum to the Hyperliquid blockchain. With the HyperEVM, the performant liquidity and financial primitives of HyperCore are available as permissionless building blocks for all users and builders. See the HyperEVM documentation section for more technical details.