Papertrade faces unverified ETH price manipulation allegations over Hyperliquid trades
Image: Crypto.newsOn October 11, unverified allegations surfaced that two wallets used roughly $20 million in ETH trades on Hyperliquid to move ETH prices 0.1%, 0.2% while holding nine-figure leveraged positions on decentralized trading platform Papertrade. Papertrade uses Hyperliquid's best bid and offer midpoint to price synthetic trades settled against its liquidity pool. No independent verification of the alleged manipulation, profits or losses existed, and Papertrade had not issued a confirmed public response as of the October 11 reports.
Key points
- Unverified allegations claim two wallets used ~$20M in ETH trades on Hyperliquid to shift ETH prices 0.1%, 0.2%.
- The wallets allegedly held leveraged Papertrade positions worth nine figures during the Hyperliquid trades.
- Papertrade uses Hyperliquid's best bid and offer midpoint to price its synthetic trades against its liquidity pool.
- No independent verification of the alleged manipulation, profits or losses existed as of the October 11 reports.
Why it matters
The allegations highlight risks from protocols using external venue pricing for synthetic trades, and unverified large-scale manipulation claims can impact user trust in decentralized trading platforms.
What's unclear
Whether the alleged price manipulation actually occurred, as no independent verification existed as of the October 11 reports.
Whether Papertrade's liquidity pool incurred any losses from the alleged activity, as reports did not establish this.
Price context · HYPE
At publication
$85.24
Now
$85.28
Change since
+0.05%
7 days · dashed line = publication
Sources · 2 publishers
Blockonomi
Tier 3
Papertrade Exploit Claims Follow $20M ETH Trades on Hyperliquid
Coverage timeline
- First reported by Crypto.news
- Confirmed by Blockonomi
- CryptoVideos brief published
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