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Whales pile pressure on HYPE price as exit queue grows

Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE is now off its all-time ￰0￱ transactions suggest the token may face additional price pressure. Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE may face selling pressure as whales reverse their ￰1￱ traded off the week’s peak of $58.85, sliding to $53.22. Traders are becoming more cautious, as HYPE open interest inched down from over $2B to $1.9B. HYPE sank from its lows, leading to whales reconsidering their positions. |) 9 months ago at $8.68 avg has now unstaked it and is very likely to sell for profits! 9 months ago, this whale deposited 17.4M $USDC into #Hyperliquid through 3 wallets and bought 2M $HYPE at $8.68 avg, then… ￰2￱ — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 16, 2025 The tokens may be sold soon, extending the price pressure on ￰3￱ the platform encourages long-term holding, and HYPE has seen predictions of triple-digit prices, whales still take profits on altcoins, as seasons and rallies are usually ￰4￱ whale may make around $89.8M in net gains.

Currently, HYPE is still being evaluated for the effect of Native Markets, the winner of the USDH ￰5￱ the token in staking may still be key to new incentives and airdrops for more ecosystem ￰6￱ for HYPE range between bearish, seeing the token slide to under $50 in the short term, and as low as $18 in a deeper ￰7￱ trader @cobie predicts a hike to $150 or even $200, though with an unknown ￰8￱ on the recent whale leveraged positions, short traders are betting on a big downward ￰9￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰10￱ in? Join them .

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