At the center of the announcement is portfolio margin, now live on testnet in pre alpha.
Hyperliquid uses it to unify how spot trades and perpetual futures are financed on the network. In simple terms, portfolio margin looks at your whole account instead of each trade in isolation. If a trader holds spot assets and opposite futures positions that hedge each other, the system recognizes the lower risk. Also, it cuts the amount of collateral that must be locked up.
What Portfolio Margin Means
On Hyperliquid, a single portfolio margin account covers both spot and perpetual contracts. It balances sit in one place and can be reused across strategies. Idle borrowable assets in that account automatically earn yield. It turns unused capital into an additional source of return. This is without forcing the user to move funds into a separate lending market.
Hyperliquid is about to launch a massive update: [Portfolio Margin]
One unified balance for spot + perps → huge boost in capital efficiency.
Key points:
• Spot & perp PnL offset → safer, smarter trading
• Earn yield automatically on unused collateral
• Carry trades… pic.twitter.com/mitQt8gbdm— Vikingo.hl (@VikingoDigital_) December 12, 2025
The feature is in pre alpha on testnet, with strict caps on how much can be borrowed and a narrow set of assets allowed. For now only USDC can be borrowed and HYPE, the native token, is the sole collateral type. With plans to add USDH and Bitcoin before a wider release.
NEW: HYPERLIQUID ANNOUNCES “THE HYPERLIQUID BLOCKCHAIN WILL INTRODUCE PORTFOLIO MARGIN IN AN UPCOMING NETWORK UPGRADE. THIS FEATURE IS LIVE ON TESTNET IN PRE-ALPHA MODE”
SOURCE: https://t.co/FOdCdxvOch pic.twitter.com/hSr7b76lkT
— DEGEN NEWS (@DegenerateNews) December 12, 2025
Portfolio margin will extend across HIP 3 decentralized exchanges and future HyperCore asset classes. Also, developers will later be able to tap it through HyperEVM smart contracts using tools like CoreWriter. That composability matters because Hyperliquid already supports high throughput on chain order books. It has attracted over 700 million dollars in total value locked across lending and related protocols. This will give these margin upgrades real liquidity to work with.
More About Hyperliquid’s Ecosystem
HyENA is a new Internet trading engine in the Hyperliquid ecosystem that turns margin into a yield source instead of dead capital. It is a perpetuals DEX where all positions are margined in USDe, using Hyperliquid’s HIP 3 standard so traders get the same fast, low cost experience as native Hyperliquid markets. As you post USDe as margin, that collateral earns rewards in the background, so idle funds function more like a productive savings account than static balance.
Introducing HyENA – the Internet Trading Engine with Native Rewards.
→ USDe-margined perpetuals DEX built on Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 standard
→ Earn rewards based on your USDe margin collateral while you trade
→ Idle margin becomes a productive savings account
→ HLPe combining… pic.twitter.com/iR65QqsxW9— HyENA (@hyenatrade) December 9, 2025
HyENA also introduces HLPe, a vault token that bundles trading returns and basis yield into a single asset, simplifying strategy management for active users. Built directly on the core building blocks of Hyperliquid and Ethena, HyENA aims to end the era of funding fees on top of non yielding collateral and make on chain derivatives more capital efficient for everyday traders.
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