Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 29, 2026Published at 1:31 AM EDT · New York
A Single Anomalous Trade Crashed a Tokenized SK Hynix Perp 20% and Liquidated 57 Million Dollars
The oracle for Hyperliquid's HIP-3 market read a single off-exchange trade 30 percent below the prior close, and Trade.xyz says it will cover eligible losses.
A perpetual futures contract tracking the South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix fell about 20 percent in roughly two minutes on Hyperliquid, then recovered, after the market's price oracle took in a single anomalous trade. On South Korea's NXT al…
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