Bitget Wallet said that it has integrated Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM layer, giving its self-custodial users direct access to onchain perpetuals and DeFi apps. The announcement ties Bitget Wallet’s stated 80+ million user base to a Hyperliquid ecosystem it says has about $5 billion in TVL and roughly a 70–80% share of the onchain perpetuals market.
What the integration actually connects
Bitget Wallet is effectively wiring its interface into Hyperliquid’s Layer 1 stack and liquidity components. The setup is framed as HyperEVM providing an Ethereum-compatible smart contract layer, while HyperCore runs fully onchain perpetual and spot order books, and HyperBFT serves as the chain’s custom consensus for fast finality. In practical terms, that means users can move from wallet custody to trading and app interactions without stepping into a centralized exchange account flow.
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Hyperliquid’s Layer 1 is positioned as “CEX-like” on speed and responsiveness. The release highlights claimed performance of up to 100,000 orders per second and around 0.2-second block confirmations, aimed at reducing latency and slippage for active traders. On product breadth, the integration points to more than 300 perpetual pairs, including crypto markets and equity-linked contracts backed by tokenized real-world assets. The text also cites onchain perp fees of 0.06%–0.09% and leverage up to 150x, with some references reaching 300x, plus HYPE as the native token used for gas and staking utilities.
The risk and compliance delta for self-custodial access
The pitch is “centralized-exchange-like execution, but self-custody,” and that trade-off matters. Self-custodial access reduces direct exchange custody risk while pushing more responsibility onto wallet controls, record-keeping, and onboarding hygiene at the edge. The richer feature set—cross-chain transfers, dApp connectivity, and onchain order books—also expands the monitoring surface. Even with onchain transparency supporting provenance checks, the text emphasizes that VASPs still need beneficial-owner controls, transaction monitoring, and travel-rule processes where applicable.
The asset mix raises additional complexity. Tokenized, equity-linked perpetual contracts and RWA-backed exposures introduce jurisdictional questions and potential securities-style assessments that compliance teams cannot ignore just because execution is onchain. And leverage is the operational stress test: higher leverage increases the speed and severity of liquidation dynamics, meaning integrators and routing partners need risk engines, process audits, and machine-readable records that capture orders, margin states, and liquidation events for supervisory review.