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Stock & Commodity Perps on Hyperliquid: How HIP-3 Markets Work
Yes — synthetic exposure to equities and commodities trades on Hyperliquid, alongside the crypto perpetuals the exchange is best known for. But it doesn't work the way crypto perps on Hyperliquid do. Before opening a position in anything labeled a stock or commodity perp, it's worth understanding the mechanism that puts it on the exchange in the first place: HIP-3.
What HIP-3 is
HIP-3 is Hyperliquid's framework for "builder-deployed perpetuals" — a permissionless path for third-party builders to launch their own perp markets on top of Hyperliquid's infrastructure, rather than having every market listed and operated by the core exchange. It's explicitly framed by Hyperliquid as a step toward decentralizing the listing process itself.
To deploy a perp DEX under HIP-3, a builder must stake 500,000 HYPE on mainnet, with a minimum holding period of 183 days after deployment. (Hyperliquid's documentation notes this staking requirement may decrease as the infrastructure matures.) That stake buys the deployer control over one perp DEX: they define the market's specifications, choose and run its price oracle, and manage day-to-day operations — price-setting, leverage limits, and settlement.
HIP-3 markets sit on the same HyperCore stack and share unified APIs with the rest of Hyperliquid, but each deployer's DEX runs its own order book and margining, independent of native markets and other deployers' DEXs. Deployers set their own fee structure and collateral assets, including an extra deployer fee share of 0–300% (capped at 0–100% in growth mode; above 100%, Hyperliquid's protocol fees scale up to match).
Each DEX gets its first three assets listed without an auction. Any assets after that go through a Dutch auction, with seven reserve deployment slots at current auction pricing.
This is the mechanism through which non-crypto instruments like stock, commodity, and index perps reach Hyperliquid. They aren't products the core exchange builds or lists itself; they exist because a builder staked HYPE and deployed them. We don't track which builders have deployed which assets here, since that list moves independently of Hyperliquid's documentation — check the live app's market list, or our own markets pages, for what's actually tradeable right now.
What's different about trading a builder-deployed market vs. a native one
A few things change once you move from Hyperliquid's own perp markets to a HIP-3 deployer's market, and they're worth checking before you size a position:
- Separate order book, separate margin. A HIP-3 DEX's order book and margining are independent of Hyperliquid's native markets. Liquidity, spreads, and how your collateral is treated can all differ from what you're used to on the core exchange, even though the interface looks the same.
- Fees are set by the deployer, not the exchange. Because deployers can configure their own fee schedule and take an additional fee share of up to 300% of the base rate, a builder-deployed market's fees can sit above Hyperliquid's standard schedule. Read the specific market's fee terms before trading it — don't assume parity with native perps.
- The oracle is the deployer's, not the exchange's. A HIP-3 market's price discovery depends on an oracle the deployer runs and is responsible for. Hyperliquid requires that oracle to track a well-defined, hard-to-manipulate underlying with real economic significance, and the deployer faces slashing across every market on their DEX if it's manipulated. That's a real deterrent, backed by the 500k HYPE stake — but it's a different trust surface than Hyperliquid's own oracle infrastructure, not an identical one.
What these perps are not
A stock or commodity perp on Hyperliquid, deployed under HIP-3 or otherwise, is not a share of stock and not a claim on the physical commodity — it's cash-settled synthetic exposure to a price. There are no dividends, no shareholder rights, no proxy votes, and no delivery. If the underlying company pays a dividend, that has no bearing on your position unless the deployer's market specification says otherwise. For how perpetual contracts work generally — funding rates, mark price, liquidation — see our perpetuals explained guide.
The regulatory picture is worth being blunt about, too. Crypto perpetuals already trade in a legal grey zone across much of the world; see our breakdown of perp trading legality in the EU. Synthetic exposure to equities specifically — a security-like payoff delivered through a derivative, on a venue with no securities-market registration or investor-protection framework behind it — sits even further from the protections you'd get trading the actual stock through a regulated broker. Read our full risk disclosure before treating any of this as a substitute for owning the underlying asset.
FAQ
Can I buy Tesla or Apple stock on Hyperliquid?
No. Hyperliquid doesn't sell shares. At most, you can trade cash-settled perpetual exposure to a stock's price, and only if a builder has deployed that specific market under HIP-3. We don't maintain a list of which tickers are currently live — check the exchange's own market list, or our markets pages, before assuming any particular stock or commodity is tradeable.
Who runs these markets?
Third-party builders, not Hyperliquid itself. Each deployer stakes 500,000 HYPE to launch a perp DEX and takes on responsibility for its market specifications, oracle, and operations, with slashing liability across all of that DEX's markets if the oracle is manipulated.
Are the fees the same as normal Hyperliquid perps?
Not necessarily. Deployers can configure their own fee structure, including an additional fee share on top of Hyperliquid's base fees. Check the specific market's fee schedule rather than assuming it matches native Hyperliquid perps.
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