Hyperliquid’s 5% Leap: A Fool’s Gold or Trader’s Delight?

Now, the altcoin gang, bless their hearts, has been having a rough week. They’ve been sulking in a short-term downtrend, with Bitcoin meandering between $88.7k and $90.3k like a lost soul in a corn maze. The altcoin market cap, minus Ethereum [ETH], has been sitting on the fence for five days, neither here nor there. But ol’ Hyperliquid? It’s been acting like it’s got a rocket strapped to its back since Friday. Curiouser and curiouser.

![Aeon’s query latency distribution reveals a system designed for speed-achieving sub-millisecond response for the vast majority of requests [latex] (85\%) [/latex]-but acknowledging the inevitable cost of occasional, longer delays [latex] (up to 2.5ms) [/latex] when cached data is unavailable, a characteristic notably absent in the consistently stable, yet slower, [latex] 1.5ms [/latex] response time of HNSW.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.15311v1/figures/latency_cdf.png)




