Tesla, oil: Hyperliquid becomes Wall Street's night stock market
After oil, decentralized platform Hyperliquid is seeing record volumes in Tesla shares outside of traditional business hours.
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After Wall Street closed, the volume of Tesla contracts on the decentralized platform Hyperliquid reached $47 million in one hour following an announcement from Elon Musk, illustrating the rise of 24-hour trading.
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Why It Matters
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow 24-hour trading of assets in the form of perpetual contracts.
Stock market closed, window open. Wall Street already closed on Thursday October 15. Elon Musk then unveils a prototype of a flying Roadster powered by SpaceX technology. The brokers are in bed. Hyperliquid’s Tesla contract goes from $2.8 million to $47 million in volume in one hour. In the spring, this DEX had already become the only exchange open to oil.
Hyperliquid: $47 million from Tesla in one hour after the close
The product in question is a perpetual contract. In other words, it is a leveraged bet with no expiry date that follows the price of an asset without ever holding it. Listed by Trade.xyz on Hyperliquid, it settles in USDC, accepts leverage of up to 20x and trades 24 hours a day, without a broker account.
After Musk's demonstration, hourly volume jumped around 1,580%, reports CoinDesk. The contract rose 4.9% to $378, after the stock closed at $362.44. Second biggest day since its launch a year ago. Over twenty-four hours, Hyperliquid processed $159 million on Tesla, compared to $279 million on Binance, according to RootData. But with $99 million in open interest, Hyperliquid's Tesla contract concentrates the largest volume of open bets on all platforms combined.
The awakening was less glorious. On Friday, Tesla shares ended the session down 2.1%, driven by the rout of tech stocks. Late-night buyers at $378 paid for their enthusiasm.
Oil served as a crash test for Hyperliquid’s overnight stock market
This reflex was born on the barrel. At the end of February 2026, the first strikes on Iran fell on a weekend, when the CME and the NYSE were closed. Traders are flocking to the Trade.xyz oil contract, which replicates the price of a barrel of WTI. In mid-March, it reached a peak of nearly $1.7 billion in daily volume, according to Fortune. This is about 250 times its level before the strikes.
On Sunday April 12, Donald Trump orders the naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. On Hyperliquid, the WTI perpetual jumped 7% to $96.40 and traded $1.53 billion. It thus becomes the third market on the platform behind bitcoin and ether. In April, oil on Hyperliquid exceeded $700 million in average volume per day, according to Bloomberg.
When Hyperliquid is ahead of the CME
According to a TD Securities study relayed by CoinDesk on June 2, Hyperliquid priced in about 80% of WTI's next move even before the CME reopened. On weekends, the price of oil is now partly formed on a blockchain.
Traditional places quickly understood the threat. In May, the CME and the ICE alerted the CFTC and the US Congress to the risks of manipulation and evasion of sanctions. The CME also announced the transition of its bitcoin futures contracts to continuous trading, seven days a week.
Stocks today go through the same pipe, with a leverage of 20 and hours that Wall Street does not offer.
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Adaptation of traditional stock exchanges with continuous quotes
Likely · Within months
Open Questions
- How will American regulators counter these platforms?
- What will be the long-term impact on CME volumes?
