HyperLiquid's Market Making Vault Grows by $250M in 2 Months Despite JELLY Fiasco

The yield-bearing vault created by decentralized exchange HyperLiquid has grown from $163 million to $418 million over the past two months despite centralization concerns around the JELLY market fiasco in March, data from DefiLlama shows.

The vault, which acts as an internal market maker and gives depositors a yield, was underwater by $13.5 million after a user manipulated the index price of JELLY in March.

HyperLiquid minimized these losses by forcibly closing the JELLY market, settling it at $0.0095 as opposed to $0.50 that was being fed to oracles via decentralized exchanges.

This led to an exodus of capital from the HyperLiquid platform, total value locked (TVL) dropped from $510 million to $150 million while the HYPE token suffered a 20% downturn.

But all was soon forgotten in part due to the emergence of James Wynn, a derivatives trader that made and lost $100 million on HyperLiquid in a week. His public trades and commentary generated a wealth of bullish sentiment around HyperLiquid as the platform managed to handle the nine-figure positions in terms of liquidity and slippage.

Over that period, TVL increased along with HYPE, which is now up by 72% in the pat 30-days.

The HyperLiquid vault is currently returning 13.42% in annual interest, beating various restaking protocols that offer around 9.1%.