Data terms

Hyperliquid Data Dictionary

A trader reference for the live market fields and HypeBasis labels shown across markets, funding, watchlists, portfolio, and calculators.

Last updated: 2026-05-07Last reviewed: 2026-05-07
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Live market data is context, not a trading signal. Verify the current venue state, order book, fees, funding, and risk limits before acting.

Direct answer

HypeBasis uses public Hyperliquid data to organize trader context: price, funding, open interest, volume, spread, liquidity, and setup labels, including Flow Lab proxy metrics. The fields below explain what each number means, how traders use it, and where it can mislead.

How HypeBasis treats data

  • Public market endpoints can provide market context, but they do not know your account, order size, or execution path.
  • HypeBasis sorts current or recent data into rankings, not recommendations.
  • Liquidity labels and setup scores are HypeBasis calculations built to make research faster.
  • Treat fallback or stale states as lower-confidence context until you check the live venue.

How to read market panels

  • Read readiness checks as friction context: data freshness, funding, spread, liquidity, turnover, and mark/oracle gap.
  • Use compare rows to ask whether a market looks unusual versus selected peers, not to rank trades.
  • Read Flow Lab walls, skew, and pressure as public-data proxies, not as historical liquidity, CVD, or liquidation clusters.
  • If a metric says not sampled or fallback data, lower your confidence and verify the live venue.
  • Open the linked dictionary terms when a metric label is unclear before using calculators or sizing assumptions.

Market Price

Market Price

Mark price

Meaning

The reference price HypeBasis shows for a perp market from public Hyperliquid data.

How traders use it

Use it as the starting point for market scans, detail pages, and calculators.

Watch out

A displayed mark is not guaranteed executable. Always compare it with order-book depth and spread before assuming you can trade at that level.

Market Price

Oracle price

Meaning

An external reference price used for marks, funding, and liquidation-related calculations.

How traders use it

Check oracle quality when a derivative references a market that can move differently from the visible order book.

Watch out

Oracle behavior can differ by product and market. Thin or synthetic markets need extra caution around old or disputed reference data.

Market Price

Mid price

Meaning

The midpoint between the best bid and best ask when order-book quotes are available.

How traders use it

Use mid price to estimate the center of the quoted market and the spread around it.

Watch out

Mid price is not a fill price. A market can show a reasonable mid while meaningful size trades through multiple price levels.

Market Price

Mark / oracle gap

Meaning

The percentage difference between the displayed mark price and oracle price.

How traders use it

Use it to spot when the traded derivative reference and external reference price are separated enough to deserve a closer look.

Watch out

A small gap is normal in live markets. A larger gap is context for review, not a standalone long or short signal.

Participation

Participation

Open interest

Meaning

The open position size in a perp market, shown by HypeBasis as estimated notional.

How traders use it

Use high open interest to find where trader positioning and liquidity concentrate.

Watch out

High OI can mean healthy participation or crowded leverage. Compare it with funding, volume, and spread before drawing conclusions.

Participation

24h volume

Meaning

The last 24 hours of trading activity, shown as notional value.

How traders use it

Use volume to identify active markets, then confirm tight spreads and depth before assuming easier execution.

Watch out

Volume can spike during stress. High activity is not the same thing as low risk or good liquidity at your order size.

Participation

Volume / OI

Meaning

A HypeBasis ratio comparing recent 24-hour volume with open interest.

How traders use it

Use it to separate markets with static positioning from markets where positions turn over often.

Watch out

The ratio is a heuristic. It can look high because volume surged, OI fell, or both happened at once.

Participation

Validator summaries

Meaning

A free Hyperliquid info response for validator status, jail status, stake, commission, signer, and recent blocks.

How traders use it

Use it to check validator concentration and reliability risk.

Watch out

A validator summary is not a delegation recommendation. Show source time, old-data labels, and missing fields before comparing validators.

Participation

Profile pocket

Meaning

A Flow Lab proxy that groups recent candle close volume into price buckets and reports the strongest bucket price plus its share of visible close-volume.

How traders use it

Use the profile pocket to spot the visible price area where recent close-volume clustered before comparing the chart with funding, spread, and depth.

Watch out

It is not a true trade-by-price volume profile. It uses candle close volume, so intrabar trading and aggressive flow are not captured.

Cost

Cost

Funding rate

Meaning

The periodic perp payment rate between longs and shorts. Positive funding generally means longs pay shorts; negative funding generally means shorts pay longs.

How traders use it

Funding can turn a flat price path into a cost or income stream for traders holding positions through funding events.

Watch out

A high rate can signal crowding, but it is not a reversal signal by itself. Funding can stay extreme longer than expected.

Cost

Annualized funding

Meaning

A display conversion that scales the current periodic funding rate into a rough annualized number.

How traders use it

Use annualized funding to compare carry pressure across markets.

Watch out

It is not a forecast. It assumes the current rate persists, which often fails during volatile or crowded periods.

Liquidity

Liquidity

Spread

Meaning

The gap between the best bid and best ask in an order book, usually shown as basis points on HypeBasis.

How traders use it

Spread is direct trading friction. Wider spreads can make a trade lose value after entry.

Watch out

A narrow top-of-book spread can still hide thin depth. Check order-book size before trading meaningful notional.

Liquidity

Visible depth

Meaning

The sampled notional value visible across the bids and asks HypeBasis fetched from the order book.

How traders use it

Use visible depth to judge whether the shown spread is backed by enough nearby liquidity for further review.

Watch out

Visible depth is a snapshot and may move quickly. It is not a guarantee that your order will fill at the displayed prices.

Liquidity

Impact price

Meaning

An estimate of how far price may move when a specific order size consumes visible book liquidity.

How traders use it

Use impact to translate liquidity from a generic label into an order-size problem.

Watch out

Visible depth may move quickly. Impact estimates can understate slippage during volatile markets or API delays.

Liquidity

Sampled public depth

Meaning

The visible bid and ask notional HypeBasis can sample from public Hyperliquid L2 book data at the time the page loads.

How traders use it

Use sampled public depth to check whether the visible book looks deep enough for closer review.

Watch out

It is not hidden liquidity, a guarantee of fill quality, or a durable order-book history. Levels may move before an order reaches the venue.

Liquidity

External reference depth

Meaning

Visible order-book depth sampled from free public venues such as Binance or Coinbase.

How traders use it

Use it to compare whether Hyperliquid's visible BTC, ETH, or SOL book looks thin or broad versus major external venues.

Watch out

Reference depth does not tell you where to trade and does not guarantee liquidity.

Liquidity

Sampled book wall

Meaning

The largest visible bid or ask level HypeBasis found in the currently sampled order book near the live top-of-book reference.

How traders use it

Use sampled walls to find price levels where visible resting liquidity is larger than nearby levels and deserves closer order-book review.

Watch out

A sampled wall is not historical liquidity and can disappear before an order reaches the venue. It is not a predictive, hidden-liquidity, or liquidation level.

Liquidity

Book skew

Meaning

A HypeBasis calculation comparing sampled bid size with sampled ask size in the visible order book.

How traders use it

Use book skew to see whether the currently sampled book leans bid-heavy, ask-heavy, or roughly balanced before studying individual levels.

Watch out

Book skew only describes the sampled visible book at fetch time. It does not predict price direction or reveal hidden liquidity.

Liquidity

Wall dominance

Meaning

A HypeBasis comparison of the strongest sampled bid wall and strongest sampled ask wall in the current visible book.

How traders use it

Use it to see whether the largest visible sampled wall is materially bigger on one side or roughly balanced across both sides.

Watch out

It compares only currently sampled visible liquidity. It is not historical support, resistance, hidden liquidity, or a trade-direction signal.

Liquidity

Liquidity label

Meaning

A HypeBasis label that summarizes spread, depth, volume, and participation for quick scanning.

How traders use it

Use it to prioritize markets for deeper order-book review before opening a detail page.

Watch out

The label is not a guarantee of execution quality. Treat it as a triage aid, not a venue promise.

Liquidity

Estimated liquidation bands

Meaning

A derived HypeBasis view that estimates approximate long and short vulnerability bands from public market context and explicit assumptions.

How traders use it

Use estimated bands to understand where leverage assumptions could become fragile before using the liquidation calculator with your own inputs.

Watch out

Estimated bands are not observed liquidation clusters. Actual liquidation prices depend on account equity, margin mode, funding, PnL, and margin tiers.

Signals

Signals

Flow tension

Meaning

A HypeBasis state that compares current sampled book skew with recent candle-pressure proxy direction.

How traders use it

Use it to spot when visible book imbalance and recent candle-volume pressure line up or disagree.

Watch out

Flow tension uses public-data proxies. Divergence is not a reversal, continuation, or execution signal.

Signals

Flow Map

Meaning

A HypeBasis market view that combines sampled depth, candle-pressure proxy, profile pocket, and visible levels.

How traders use it

Use it to inspect market structure quickly before drilling into funding history, calculators, or the venue order book.

Watch out

It is descriptive only. It does not show hidden liquidity, liquidation clusters, entries, exits, or recommendations.

Signals

Flow level map

Meaning

A Flow Lab V2 table that sorts latest close, sampled bid wall, sampled ask wall, and profile pocket into one inspectable public-data map.

How traders use it

Use the level map to compare where current price, visible depth, and recent close-volume proxies sit relative to each other before deeper review.

Watch out

It is not an entry plan, observed liquidation map, or hidden-liquidity detector. Every level may update as fresh public data arrives.

Signals

Flow regime

Meaning

A Flow Lab V2 label that says whether the public-data level map is compressed, spread out, one-sided, balanced, incomplete, or missing.

How traders use it

Use the label to scan the current public-data map before comparing funding, spread, depth, and candles.

Watch out

The regime is a descriptive label only. It is not a prediction, directional signal, probability estimate, or instruction to trade.

Signals

Setup score

Meaning

A HypeBasis watchlist score for Coiling, Momentum, and Reversion/Dip conditions from public market data.

How traders use it

Scores organize research queues so traders can compare price, volume, funding, and trend context faster.

Watch out

A setup score is not a signal, prediction, recommendation, or probability estimate.

Signals

Candle pressure proxy

Meaning

A HypeBasis proxy that adds candle volume when a candle closes up and subtracts candle volume when a candle closes down.

How traders use it

Use it to summarize recent candle direction and volume pressure without manually scanning every bar in the visible window.

Watch out

This is not trade-level cumulative volume delta. It does not know whether buyers or sellers initiated individual trades.

Signals

CVD proxy delta

Meaning

A Flow Lab comparison saved in this browser between the current candle-direction signed-volume proxy and the previous view.

How traders use it

Use it to see whether the public OHLCV pressure proxy rose or fell since your previous view without claiming trade-level order-flow data.

Watch out

This is not real trade-level CVD. It uses candle direction multiplied by candle volume and cannot identify buyer-initiated or seller-initiated trades.

Signals

Trade-pressure proxy

Meaning

A future label reserved for trade-level rollups that can classify recent pressure from public trades rather than candle direction alone.

How traders use it

Use the label only when HypeBasis stores or receives public trade data granular enough to support a trade-pressure read.

Watch out

Current Flow Map V1 uses a candle-pressure proxy instead. Do not call candle-derived pressure a trade-pressure proxy.

Freshness

Freshness

Reference venue data

Meaning

Saved external order-book data used to compare broader market depth while keeping Hyperliquid as the main venue.

How traders use it

BTC, ETH, and SOL liquidity can be deeper on large centralized venues, so reference data helps avoid overreading one Hyperliquid book.

Watch out

Reference venues have their own access rules, product types, and rate limits. HypeBasis should show source, time, old-data labels, incomplete-data labels, and missing-data labels.

Freshness

Stale or fallback data

Meaning

A state where HypeBasis cannot show fresh upstream data and either keeps the last good data briefly or marks the market data unavailable.

How traders use it

Use freshness to decide how much confidence to place in rankings, heatmaps, and calculators.

Watch out

Do not treat stale, fallback, or delayed data as live trading context. Refresh and verify against the venue before acting.

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Risk notice
Crypto perpetuals and leveraged trading are high risk. You can lose money through liquidation, funding, slippage, oracle issues, protocol failures, and market volatility.

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