Tor00_1 (@cryptoo_tor) “Wintermute is literally paying $10M a year to legally front-run everyone on Hype” — TopicDigg

Wintermute is literally paying $10M a year to legally front-run everyone on Hyperliquid and it’s completely destroying altcoin liquidity Bloomberg finally exposed what HFT desks have been screaming about for weeks. Hyperliquid’s gossip priority auctions let top funds see incoming orders 50–60ms before anyone else on the network Look at how completely broken this setup is: -> One Wintermute wallet won ~76% of the top slots last month, burning ~$26k every single day just to starve out competition -> HL claims the auction is open to everyone. Complete BS. You only get that 60ms head start if you have direct peering with Foundation nodes, which requires 0.5% of total maker volume and 10k HYPE staked ($700k+) -> Smaller MMs are getting sniped nonstop and just unplugging their bots on alts -> Retail gets stuck with the bill: across 86 altcoin pairs, order book depth on HL imploded by 82% while spreads blew out from 2.13 to 3.55 bps Honestly, I don't even blame Wintermute. If I had their balance sheet, I would milk this exact loophole until someone forced me to stop The blame sits 100% on the protocol design. Burning auction fees is cool for $HYPE holders, sure, but letting one fund buy a monopoly on data speed turns a decentralized exchange into a rigged casino Scrap read-priority auctions completely or make the slots equal, because right now altcoin execution on HL is absolute garbage