{"id":25673,"date":"2025-07-30T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hyperliquid-faces-disruption-amid-traffic-surge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:14:46","slug":"hyperliquid-faces-disruption-amid-traffic-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hyperliquid-faces-disruption-amid-traffic-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperliquid Faces Disruption Amid Traffic Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29, the popular DEX for perpetual futures trading, Hyperliquid, experienced a brief disruption. According to the status page, a sudden surge in traffic led to issues with the <span data-descr=\"application programming interface\" class=\"old_tooltip\">API<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcJPEZ9S6DH-SN0G6DzGCHLQkrD-g8givLB21v5tkTCnYTQa28z1JxZJPdHatnVBLnjtoy7ouHcXB8g4VSCoz7Fe4_kBaYwXXgZYXknfhKD3DIIOCXhatbSlyN1S3XWSfwxr9YQ?key=ZAFAKZNT5XeDp8XPUq5qiA\" alt=\"Hyperliquid Faces Disruption Amid Traffic Surge\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperliquid.statuspage.io\/\">Hyperliquid Status<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFrom 14:10 to 14:47 UTC, there was a delay in order transmission to nodes due to API server overload caused by a sudden traffic spike. This was not related to a hacking attack or vulnerability exploitation. The issue has been resolved, and we continue to work on improvements,\u201d stated Hyperliquid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Developers promised to add additional protective mechanisms to prevent similar disruptions in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the issue was identified, some funding rates on Hyperliquid turned negative. Traders complained that their orders were not being executed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is bad, can\u2019t close my position in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HyperliquidX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HyperliquidX<\/a> . Something is wrong. Facing this for the first time. Many are facing the same issue, as seen from discord. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V592N9wUdX\">pic.twitter.com\/V592N9wUdX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 noorucn.eth (@sportytechworld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportytechworld\/status\/1950198240466653657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A DEX representative immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/channels\/1029781241702129716\/1030197017655394447\/1399761717181026398\">confirmed<\/a> on Discord that the team was investigating the incident. Half an hour after the initial reports, Hyperliquid resolved the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the disruption, asset prices on the platform differed from the market by approximately $9.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption also affected BasedApp, a trading application based on Hyperliquid, supported by Delphi, Hashed, and Spartan. A project representative confirmed in a comment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/364646\/hype-drops-slightly-as-hyperliquid-experiences-brief-downtime-and-order-execution-issues\">The Block<\/a> that users were unable to place orders. At the time of writing, the service is operating normally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Market Reaction<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/ru\/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%8B\/hyperliquid\">CoinGecko<\/a>, the price of HYPE has decreased by nearly 2% over the past day. At the time of writing, the token is trading at $43.32, with a 24-hour low of $42.59.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXdnuxRE3oCwcXyxPb-7CtAFA8TvCLxnUPpVHzUlFIgwvtV1jSNkB6sc16kIo6FozVetGWoh4V_7ZpJ-z0EqUpmyWLla5yqkh1-PHQotxgfEBQa99be0esgd7y2ln1g4fK9FpgWGOQ?key=ZAFAKZNT5XeDp8XPUq5qiA\" alt=\"Hyperliquid Faces Disruption Amid Traffic Surge\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly chart of HYPE\/USDT on KuCoin. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/chart\/?symbol=KUCOIN%3AHYPEUSDT\">TradingView<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hyperliquid is one of the leading decentralized platforms for leveraged futures trading. It operates on its own HyperEVM blockchain, which ensures high speed and low fees.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on July 9, the Web3 wallet Phantom <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/phantom-introduces-perpetual-futures-trading-with-hyperliquid-support\">launched<\/a> perpetual contract trading through integration with Hyperliquid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29, the popular DEX for perpetual futures trading, Hyperliquid, experienced a brief disruption. According to the status page, a sudden surge in traffic led to issues with the API.\u00a0 Source: Hyperliquid Status.\u00a0 \u201cFrom 14:10 to 14:47 UTC, there was a delay in order transmission to nodes due to API server overload caused by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,787,1823],"class_list":["post-25673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-dex","tag-hyperliquid"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"214","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}