Hyperion DeFi Adds $5 Million in HYPE to its Treasury Holdings

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., July 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hyperion DeFi, Inc. (NASDAQ:HYPD) ("Hyperion DeFi" or the "Company"), a pioneer in ophthalmic technologies and the first publicly-listed U.S. company to build a strategic treasury of HYPE, the native token of the Hyperliquid protocol, today announced that it has acquired an additional 120,726 HYPE tokens, expanding its total holdings to 1,427,178 HYPE purchased at an average price of $35.38 per token.

"This latest acquisition reflects our commitment to consistently and strategically grow our HYPE position," stated Hyunsu Jung, Chief Investment Officer. "As decentralized finance increasingly converges with institutional capital markets, Hyperion DeFi offers public-market investors today direct, regulated exposure to Hyperliquid's continued global adoption."

This marks the Company's third allocation into HYPE, with the additional holdings expected to be deployed for revenue-generating opportunities on both HyperCore and HyperEVM.

About the Hyperliquid Platform and the HYPE TokenHyperliquid is a layer one blockchain (L1) optimized from the ground up for high frequency, transparent trading. The blockchain includes fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books, with every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation occurring within 70 millisecond block times. It also hosts the HyperEVM, a general-purpose smart contract platform that, like Ethereum, supports permissionless decentralized financial applications.

HYPE is the native token of Hyperliquid. Staked HYPE in particular provides utility for users via reduced trading fees and increased referral bonuses. Circulating HYPE is autonomously purchased and sequestered by the blockchain itself with the trading fees generated on the network's order books. As of June 2025, more ...