Hyperliquid generates revenue through on-chain perpetual futures and spot trading, facilitated by its HyperCore execution layer. Every order, trade, and liquidation occurs on-chain with one-block finality, enabling ultra-low latency and transparent trading. Liquidity providers and market makers earn supply-side fees from bid-ask spreads and transaction rebates, while network participants can earn governance and staking rewards via the HYPE token.

Hyperliquid is a layer-one (L1) blockchain purpose-built for trading and decentralized finance. It combines: HyperCore, the high-performance trading engine powering perpetuals, spot markets, and oracles; HyperEVM, a fully compatible smart contract layer enabling developers to build DeFi applications such as lending, vaults, governance, bridges, and stablecoins directly on-chain. Its consensus mechanism, HyperBFT, is a custom algorithm inspired by HotStuff, optimized for throughput (200k+ orders/sec) and deterministic finality. The HYPE token underpins the network, granting holders rights to participate in governance, staking, and securing the protocol — effectively letting users own a share of the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

HYPE tokenholders own, govern, and secure the Hyperliquid network through on-chain governance. The Hyper Foundation oversees community governance and ecosystem growth, ensuring decentralization and alignment of incentives across traders, builders, and validators. Hyperliquid’s investors include Tioga Capital Partners, Collab+Currency, Infinite Capital (San Juan), Optimista Capital, and RockawayX, all holding minority venture capital positions.

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# Hyperliquid Block time Methodology

## 1. Overview

Block time measures the average time interval between consecutive blocks on the Hyperliquid HyperEVM blockchain, expressed in milliseconds. This metric provides insight into the blockchain's performance consistency and helps assess network health and transaction processing speed. The calculation analyzes consecutive block timestamps to determine the average time required to produce blocks on a daily basis.

## 2. Data sources

The calculation uses the following raw data sources:

- **Hyperliquid HyperEVM block data**: Raw blockchain block records containing `timestamp` and `number` fields for each block produced on the HyperEVM chain
- **Block production metadata**: Timing information for sequential block production used to calculate intervals between consecutive blocks

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Block timestamp extraction
- **Purpose**: Retrieves block timing data and filters out invalid records
- **Logic**: Extracts `timestamp` and `number` fields from Hyperliquid HyperEVM block data, applies safe casting to ensure proper data types, and excludes the genesis block (block number 0) which is timestamped at Unix epoch start and would skew calculations. For incremental processing, applies lookback period filtering to ensure data freshness while maintaining calculation accuracy
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (when block was produced), `block_number` (sequential block identifier)

### Component B: Temporal sequencing
- **Purpose**: Prepares consecutive block pairs for interval calculation
- **Logic**: Uses LAG window function ordered by `block_number` to retrieve the previous block's timestamp and number for each current block. This creates pairs of consecutive blocks needed to calculate time intervals
- **Key fields**: `previous_timestamp` (timestamp of preceding block), `previous_block_number` (number of preceding block)

### Component C: Block interval calculation
- **Purpose**: Calculates time differences between consecutive blocks
- **Logic**: Computes millisecond differences between current `block_timestamp` and `previous_timestamp` for blocks that have valid previous records and are truly sequential (block number difference equals 1). Truncates timestamps to daily boundaries for aggregation grouping
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily boundary), `block_time` (millisecond interval between blocks)

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: Groups block intervals by day and calculates average `block_time` across all valid block intervals within each 24-hour period
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable for timing metrics
- **Time aggregation**: Daily boundaries using timestamp truncation, with filtering to include only data from June 1, 2025 onwards
- **Final calculation**: Average block time in milliseconds per day, standardized through Token Terminal's `finalize_metric_block_time` macro which adds metadata fields (`chain_id` as 'hyperevm', `product_id` as 'hyperevm', `timestamp_grain` as 'day') and applies zero-fill strategy for missing data points. Results are filtered based on chain availability configuration to ensure data quality standards.

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

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