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Updated · robinhood.com · Aug 22
Robinhood Lists HYPE $77 Price Contracts at 94¢ for Aug. 22
Updated
Updated · robinhood.com · Aug 22

Robinhood Lists HYPE $77 Price Contracts at 94¢ for Aug. 22

3 articles · Updated · robinhood.com · Aug 22

Summary

  • Robinhood Derivatives is offering new HYPE event contracts tied to the token’s price at 7 p.m. EDT on Aug. 22, with $77-or-above contracts priced at 94¢ and $78-or-above at 89¢.
  • The market resolves using CF Benchmarks’ Real Time Index, averaging 60 readings in the final minute before expiration; winning contracts pay $1, usually within an hour of resolution.
  • Trading runs 24 hours a day except Thursday from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. ET, and Robinhood says additional fees apply if traders hold positions through settlement or close them earlier.
  • The listing follows an earlier HYPE contract for 1 p.m. EDT the same day and sits alongside similar crypto event markets for ETH, Bitcoin, XRP, Dogecoin and Solana.

Insights

Could last-minute market manipulation skew the 60-second index average and alter the final payout of Robinhood's HYPE contracts?
Is Robinhood ironically using centralized prediction markets to profit off the success of a decentralized trading giant like Hyperliquid?
With the contract expiring today, will Hyperliquid's massive fee-linked buybacks be enough to push HYPE over the $100 threshold?