Hyperliquid TradFi Contract Trading Cools During Market Closures, With Sundays Outpacing Saturdays

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.