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coinbase staked $25m in HYPE to become hyperliquid's USDC treasury deployer and keeps adding. the math: $5b USDC on the platform at 4% yield generates $200m/year. coinbase keeps their 10% deployer cut ($20m/year) while hyperliquid captures 90% ($180m/year). coinbase is earning 80% annual return on their HYPE stake from yield alone before any token appreciation. hyperliquid gets $500k/day in revenue that has zero correlation to trading volume. the protocol went from 100% fee-dependent to having a quarter of ...