ChatGPT Predicts Hyperliquid Could Reach $110 to $140 by End of 2026
Key Takeaways
- •President Trump said on August 19 that CFTC Chair Mike Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States under a compliant framework.
- •ChatGPT’s base-case forecast puts HYPE at $125 by the end of 2026, within a broader range of $110 to $140.
- •Hyperliquid’s open interest exceeded $11 billion in July, showing the platform already has meaningful trading activity.
- •HIP-3 has expanded Hyperliquid into real-world-asset perpetuals, with activity reaching about $3.6 billion across stocks, commodities, and pre-IPO markets.
- •The latest session saw HYPE close at $72.253 after a 23.51% daily gain, while the article says regulatory delays or weaker buybacks could pull it toward $50 to $60.
The largest market in the world has been closed to this exchange, and that may be about to change. ChatGPT AI predicts that the opening could drive a rerating, and it gives Hyperliquid a price prediction of $110 to $140 by the end of 2026, with $125 as the base case.
Hyperliquid is a decentralized perpetual-futures exchange running on its own Layer 1 blockchain, with HYPE as its native token — an offshore venue whose terms have kept U.S. traders out.
The catalyst came on August 19, when President Trump indicated that CFTC Chair Mike Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the U.S. under a fully compliant legal framework.
That would open a large market that has previously been restricted. ChatGPT treats access as the single most important variable in the thesis. The CFTC is the regulator of U.S. derivatives markets, and offshore perp platforms have long gated out American users to stay beyond its reach, which is why a compliant framework, if completed, would be a structural change rather than a marginal one.
The underlying business is already sizeable. Open interest — the total value of derivatives contracts not yet settled — topped $11 billion in July.
HIP-3, the upgrade that lets third-party teams deploy their own perpetual markets on Hyperliquid, has carried real-world-asset perpetuals to roughly $3.6 billion, showing expansion beyond crypto into stocks, commodities, and pre-IPO markets.
U.S.-listed HYPE ETFs provide another channel for capital access. Regulated wrappers can reach money that will not touch an offshore venue directly. Spot crypto ETFs have been a mainstream U.S. wrapper since bitcoin funds launched in January 2024, and that structure has since extended to other tokens.
The bear case has two main sources: regulatory delays and weaker fee-driven buybacks. The buyback risk is mechanical: Hyperliquid has used a share of trading fees to repurchase HYPE, so fee income and token demand are linked. Either could pull HYPE toward $50 to $60.
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The daily chart shows a token that has traded in wide swings. HYPE rose from $10 in April 2025 to $60 by September of that year.
Autumn brought a steep retracement toward $21 by January. In early 2026, the token rebuilt steadily through spring.
June delivered the strongest move yet, taking HYPE to $76. July and August then gave back much of those gains, with the price falling to $51.
The latest session reversed sharply. HYPE jumped from $58.50 to close above $72 in a single day.
The close was $72.253, up 23.51%, or $13.753. The daily range covered $58.040 to $72.258.
Support sits at $65, then $58 and $51. Resistance appears at $76, the June high, followed by $85 and $100.
RSI reads 74.55, with its signal line at 49.43. That gap of more than 25 points confirms an abrupt and powerful momentum shift.
The oscillator has moved into overbought territory, past the conventional 70 threshold. Momentum is strongly bullish, although a reading this stretched often precedes a pause.
ChatGPT's base case requires a 73% move from the current level. Whether the CFTC process produces an actual framework will determine that outcome, and the concrete markers will be formal agency steps and actual U.S. user access rather than further statements of intent.
Hyperliquid Is Trying to Enter One Market. LiquidChain Is Building Across Three.
Hyperliquid's next rating depends on access. The larger the market it can legally reach, the bigger the opportunity.
LiquidChain is addressing the same issue at the infrastructure level.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana still operate as separate ecosystems, forcing users and developers to deal with bridges, fragmented liquidity, repeated deployments, and extra fees whenever capital moves between them.
LiquidChain is building a single execution layer designed to connect all three, so one deployment can reach multiple major networks without rebuilding the stack each time.
That gives the project a broader addressable market from day one: not one chain, but liquidity spread across the largest crypto ecosystems.
The presale is currently priced at $0.01454, with just over $940,000 raised. If cross-chain execution becomes a core part of the next DeFi cycle, LiquidChain will still be valued before that market fully develops.
