Hyperliquid’s Builder Codes Fuel Frontend Competition in Crypto Trading
Hyperliquid's protocol-level builder codes are reshaping the economics of decentralized trading interfaces. The innovation allows third-party frontends to embed fee structures directly into transaction payloads, capturing up to 1% on spot trades and 0.1% on perpetual contracts without maintaining orderbooks or liquidity pools.
Nearly 40% of daily active users now trade through alternative interfaces, with top builders Based, Phantom, and pvp.trade collectively generating over $31 million in fees. This distribution model mirrors traditional equity markets more closely than conventional crypto exchanges, fragmenting what was typically a vertically integrated stack into specialized layers.