Trading activity for TradFi contracts offered by Trade xyz on Hyperliquid cooled noticeably during traditional market closures, with average weekend daily volume at about $590 million, or 16.8% of the typical daily average. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, monitoring by Hyperinsight also showed HIP-3 turnover share of Hyperliquid’s total volume falling to 36.4%.
Data over several consecutive weeks indicated Sunday trading volumes were consistently more than 60% higher than Saturday levels. This week’s figures showed Saturday volume at roughly $338 million, while Sunday volume had reached about $654 million as of publication, marking a 93.5% increase from Saturday.
The report suggested that as Monday’s traditional market opening approached, some on-chain traders may have developed a habit of using 24-hour on-chain markets to build positions and price in expectations ahead of the opening session.