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Call-buying bonanza around Trump's Hyperliquid comments includes some eyebrow-raising trades

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 666 words · By Oliver Renick
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Wednesday was already shaping up to be the best for crypto assets in recent memory, with bitcoin trading the highest since June as President Donald Trump scheduled a meeting with industry leaders.

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Topics 3

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What happened

Wednesday was already shaping up to be the best for crypto assets in recent memory, with bitcoin trading the highest since June as President Donald Trump scheduled a meeting with industry leaders.

Why it matters

ET, the president hinted at regulating Hyperliquid, the decentralized exchange that's been garnering popularity among traders as the home base of "perpetual futures" trading — the swap-like derivatives contracts with high leverage and no expiration that have…

Common ground

"I understand that [Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair] Mike [Selig] is also working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a fully compliant and legal fashion," Trump said in a press conference.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/call-buying-bonanza-around-trumps-hyperliquid-co…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 28 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Options volume in Hyperliquid was almost eight times the 30-day average”
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Claim 2: “Shares of Michael Saylor's Strategy rallied nearly 13% Wednesday”
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Claim 3: “Both are down roughly 30% year-to-date”
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Claim 4: “We have four things on our balance sheet... Two billion of HYPE token, cash, common equity, and deferred tax liability. No debt and no funky converts”
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Claim 5: “President Donald Trump scheduled a meeting with industry leaders”
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Two independent web sources report that Donald Trump planned/scheduled meetings with cryptocurrency industry leaders at the White House.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During and between his terms as president of the United States, Donald Trump has made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. Fact-checkers at The Washington Post documented 30,573 false or m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump assumed office as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. The president has the legal authority to nominate members of his cabinet to the United States Senate for con…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Donald_Trump
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
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Claim 6: “bitcoin posted the worst year relative to the S&P 500 since 2019”
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Claim 7: “Trading in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) was more than 4.5 times the 30-day average”
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Claim 8: “Just shy of $2 million in calls of various strikes and expiries traded before 3 p.m.”
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Claim 9: “Hype, the digital token that powers the exchange's blockchain-based settlement and operations, jumped 18%”
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The provided evidence contains general token unlock data and unrelated gaming value lists, but does not confirm the specific 18% jump of the Hype token.
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web search NEUTRAL — Source-verified token unlock data with precision labeling. Track cliff and linear vesting, upcoming releases, and circulating supply impact across 500+ tokens.
https://tokenomist.ai/
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web search NEUTRAL — Supreme Values, the #1 MM2 Value List. Track real-time Murder Mystery 2 (MM2) values, trusted and used by millions of traders., stability changed from "Receding" to "Stable" Chroma Beach Set increased…
https://supremevalues.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Swap crypto & tokens at the best rates across 18+ chains. The 1inch swap aggregator is your gateway to secure and efficient DeFi.
https://1inch.com/
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Claim 10: “The Clarity Act is a bill that would establish a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies”
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Claim 11: “U.S. residents not being allowed on the platform [Hyperliquid]”
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The Block and Sandmark both explicitly state that Hyperliquid is currently not available to US users or does not currently serve US users.
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web search NEUTRAL — U (minuscule: u) is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others world…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U
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web search NEUTRAL — U, or u, is the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet. U may also refer to: The prefix U+ (then a number) is used to indicate a codepoint as being in the Unicode character encoding system (to di…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_(disambiguation)
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web search NEUTRAL — U, u meaning: 1. the 21st letter of the English alphabet 2. abbreviation for universal: in the UK, a film or a…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/u
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Claim 12: “bringing the stock's year-to-date gain to more than 163%”
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The provided evidence consists of Microsoft Teams login and error pages, which are completely irrelevant to the claim about stock gains.
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web search NEUTRAL — Oops, unknown error!
https://teams.microsoft.com/v2/?skipauthstrap=1
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn how to create and manage teams and channels, turn on language translations, and share files. Learn how to transition from a chat to a call, manage calendar invites, and use background effects. S…
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/log-in
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web search NEUTRAL — Communicate and collaborate with anyone, anytime, with Teams. Stay focused, work together, and achieve more with one platform for all your communication needs. Host impactful meetings with features su…
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app
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Claim 13: “I understand that [Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair] Mike [Selig] is also working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a fully compliant and legal fashion”
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Three independent sources (including The Motley Fool) confirm that President Trump stated CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid to the US in a compliant and legal fashion.
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web search NEUTRAL — 19 after US President Donald Trump said the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is working to bring the platform into the US under a compliant regulatory framework. Trump made the remarks at a…
https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/hype-jumps-11-perc…
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web search NEUTRAL — Trump says CFTC is working on US pathway. The rally accelerated after Trump said Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a “f…
https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/5e000-trump-sends-hype-soari…
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web search NEUTRAL — All it took was one sentence uttered by President Donald Trump stating that Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Michael Selig is working on a pathway for the decentralized crypto derivat…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/22/up-20-in-1-day-is-…
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Claim 14: “Shares of Cboe Global Markets dropped 3.5%, Miami International Holdings' shares fell 3.1% and CME Group's shares slid 1.7%”
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No evidence was found after searching for the stock price movements of Cboe, Miami International Holdings, or CME Group.
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Claim 15: “Those calls are now worth $2.45 each”
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Claim 16: “Coinbase surged almost 10%”
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Claim 17: “more than 120,000 calls traded versus under 8,000 puts”
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Claim 18: “Shares of Hyperliquid Strategies... surged 30% before the closing bell”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant results regarding Mini Countryman electric vehicles and contains no information about Hyperliquid Strategies stock.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 19, 2026 · UK guide to charging the Mini Countryman Electric, covering Type 2 and CCS charging, home wallboxes, public charging, battery figures, range and cable choice.
https://www.evchargingcablestore.com/ev-news/mini-countryman…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Mini Countryman SE ALL4 charges at home at up to 11 kW over a Type 2 connector. With a usable battery of 64.7 kWh, a wall-mounted charger is the sensible choice.
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web search NEUTRAL — Our overview of all MINI EV chargers brings the brand's other electric versions together. For the MINI Countryman E we recommend a charger from our 11 kW EV chargers.
https://www.wallboxdiscounter.com/en/ev-charger-for-every-ca…
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Claim 19: “someone bought 2,000 8-strike calls expiring in November and December for about $510,000”
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Claim 20: “the president hinted at regulating Hyperliquid”
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Multiple sources (The Block, Sandmark, TikTok) report that President Trump suggested or announced plans to bring Hyperliquid into the US under a compliant framework.
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web search NEUTRAL — Perpetual futures contracts on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid have exploded in popularity over the past year, drawing traders with the ability to bet on crypto prices around the clock. However…
https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-09-04-trump-wan…
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web search NEUTRAL — US President Donald Trump said on 19 Aug that his administration is trying to open a compliant American route for Hyperliquid, the offshore decentralised perpetual futures exchange that does not curre…
https://www.sandmark.com/news/top-news/trump-says-cftc-onsho…
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web search NEUTRAL — Donald Trump announced plans to bring Hyperliquid to the US — what that means for non‑KYC trading, perps, stocks and crypto. Learn why traders call it game‑changing.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/when-is-hyper-liquid-coming-…
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Claim 21: “Bitcoin volatility measured by Volmex Labs' BVIV Index jumped 13% after hitting a year-to-date low of 35.5 Friday”
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Claim 22: “Hyperliquid Strategies does not own the Hyperliquid exchange”
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Claim 23: “Traders bought almost 45,000 calls and sold 29,000”
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Claim 24: “around 11 a.m., someone spent $65,000 trading 719 of the 8-strike calls expiring in mid-October, paying 90 cents each”
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Claim 25: “About $10 million in premium exchanged hands”
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Claim 26: “Dennis Davitt, CNBC contributor and co-founder of Millbank Dartmoor Portsmouth, an investment firm managing more than $500 million in institutional assets”
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Claim 27: “bitcoin trading the highest since June”
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Multiple web search results (Decrypt and TradingView) confirm Bitcoin reached high prices, with Decrypt specifically mentioning it reached its highest price since June.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. Hackers used social engineering against Twitter employee…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A cryptocurrency bubble is a phenomenon where the market increasingly considers the going price of cryptocurrency assets to be inflated against their hypothetical value. The history of cryptocurrency …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_bubble
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bitcoin was designed by its pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, to work as a currency, but its status as a currency is disputed. Economists define money as a store of value, a medium of exchange …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_bitcoin
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Claim 28: “David Schamis, CEO of Hyperliquid Strategies and founding partner at Atlas Merchant Capital”
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No evidence was found to confirm the identity or roles of David Schamis.
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