Jump Trading's footprint on Hyperliquid has expanded to nearly $150 billion in cumulative volume since December 2025, giving the firm roughly 8 percent of all perpetual futures activity on the platform. The market maker operates one master account and 16 subaccounts with $145 million in notional positions.
Jump Trading has generated nearly $150 billion in cumulative trading volume on Hyperliquid since December 2025, accounting for 7.8 percent of the platform's total perpetual futures activity.
Hyperdash co-founder Hansen Beringer mapped the firm's footprint across one master account and 16 subaccounts, estimating Jump Trading's share reached 18.9 percent in the xyz market, he said. Each wallet serves a distinct role, with separate accounts for crude oil, Brent, natural gas, and individual stock listings, while a larger book handles the S&P 500, XYZ100, SK Hynix, silver, gold, and memory-related names.
Jump Trading initially spent about a week testing the platform in December, trading $153 million across BTC, SOL, and HYPE before funding its master account and creating the subaccounts. In July, its share rose to almost 18 percent of total exchange volume and 29 percent of xyz volume. The firm's current positions total $145 million in notional value against $63.6 million in account assets.
The firm has paid about $7 million in trading fees while generating only a few hundred thousand dollars in profit, indicating its Hyperliquid activity is one leg of a broader multi-venue market-making operation. Maker volume accounts for just 11 to 35 percent of fills, pointing to a taker-driven hedging or arbitrage book paired with other venues to capture differences in spreads and funding rates.
By individual market, Jump Trading accounts for 38 percent of DRAM volume, 36 percent of natural gas, 33 percent of Brent, 32 percent of the S&P 500, and 26 percent of XYZ100, compared with 2.6 percent of BTC volume. The book is long $32 million of Brent and $16 million of crude oil, while holding shorts in gold, silver, MU, NVDA, DRAM, SK Hynix, XYZ100, and megacap names.
Jump Trading's roughly $65 million in USDC margin generates about $1.8 million in annual net interest income for the Hyperliquid protocol under the AQAV2 rate. The firm also paid 966 HYPE between April and August for Hyperliquid's gossip priority feature, mostly in May, before discontinuing the payments.
HYPE reached an all-time high of $89.60 on Sept. 6 and has held near that level. Institutional exposure to the token is expanding through three HYPE funds — the Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF, 21Shares Hyperliquid ETF, and Grayscale Hyperliquid Staking ETF — with 30 investment managers holding roughly $75 million in the products, according to Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart. Wealth High Governance Asset Management holds the largest position at nearly $24 million, followed by OLP Capital Management at $10.5 million, UBS at $7.5 million, and Jane Street Group at about $4.4 million.
Trump said last month that CFTC Chair Michael Selig was working to bring Hyperliquid into the US in a "fully compliant and legal fashion," adding to expectations around the platform's expansion into the country.
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