{"id":19227,"date":"2025-03-26T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19227"},"modified":"2025-03-26T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:47:09","slug":"hyperliquid-delists-jelly-after-vault-squeezed-in-13m-tussle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19227","title":{"rendered":"HyperLiquid Delists JELLY After Vault Squeezed in $13M Tussle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>whichHyperliquidity Provider (HLP), a market making vault that is a part of derivatives exchange HyperLiquid, faced a grueling loss after a  trader allegedly manipulated the price of the JELLY token. <\/p>\n<p>HyperLiquid&#8217;s native token (HYPE) fell by 20% after HLP&#8217;s unrealized PNL temporarily stood at negative $13.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1904902828319269068\" target=\"_blank\">Lookonchain<\/a>, a trader that held $4.85 million of the JELLY token combined a short trader on HyperLiquid with on-chain spot buys, this liquidated the position on HyperLiquid and essentially meant HLP inherited that short position.<\/p>\n<p>HLP is an automated market making bot that ties in with the exchanges liquidation engine.<\/p>\n<p>The trader then aggressively bought JELLY on spot exchanges, pushing the price up and temporarily causing HLP&#8217;s unrealized loss to stand at $13.5 million. Liquidity on decentralized exchanges is minimal, so moving price is relatively easy compared to HyperLiquid.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in an attempt to minimize losses HyperLiquid appeared to force close the JELLY market, settling it at $0.0095 as opposed to $0.50 that was being fed to oracles via decentralized exchanges. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After evidence of suspicious market activity, the validator set convened and voted to delist JELLY perps,&#8221; HyperLiquid wrote on X. &#8220;All users apart from flagged addresses will be made whole from the Hyper Foundation. This will be done automatically in the coming days based on onchain data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newfound Research CEO Corey Hoffstein <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/choffstein\/status\/1904918099398099094\" target=\"_blank\">questioned the legality<\/a> of HyperLiquid&#8217;s actions as social media descended into outrage. The trader who manipulated the JELLY market ended up with a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0xdoug\/status\/1904917879411089868\" target=\"_blank\">small loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HyperLiquid&#8217;s delisting led to another player entering the mix: Binance. The largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume saw an opportunity and announced that it was listing futures tied to JELLY, causing spot prices to skyrocket by 560%.<\/p>\n<p>The case draws similarities to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2022\/10\/20\/defi-exchange-mangos-114m-exploit-was-market-manipulation-not-a-hack-ex-fbi-special-agent-says\" target=\"_blank\">exploit that occurred on Mango Markets<\/a> in 2022, where a trader called Avraham Eisenberg created a &#8220;highly profitable trading strategy&#8221; that involved manipulating oracle prices to secure a gain on derivative markets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>whichHyperliquidity Provider (HLP), a market making vault that is a part of derivatives exchange HyperLiquid, faced a grueling loss after a trader allegedly manipulated the price of the JELLY token. HyperLiquid&#8217;s native token (HYPE) fell by 20% after HLP&#8217;s unrealized PNL temporarily stood at negative $13.5 million. According to Lookonchain, a trader that held $4.85 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-19227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}