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#HyperCore burned 17,092 HYPE in a day: the annual deflation is estimated at 6.15 million tokens
On April 1st, HyperCore repurchased 43,749.54 HYPE at an average price of about $36.77, after which 26,657 HYPE were distributed to stakers and 24 to validator nodes. Considering these operations, the net daily burn amounted to 17,092 HYPE, corresponding to a deflation of approximately 17,000 HYPE per day and about 6.15 million HYPE annually. For comparison, Solana issues about 25.19 million SOL per year through staking rewards and validator incentives; meanwhile, HyperCore’s buyback efficiency is noted to decrease as the price rises, to help smooth supply pressure across different market phases
#HYPE@$HYPE .
HYPE
-6.25%
SOL
-6.43%
OurCryptoTalk
2026-04-02 06:59
$SUI hit $5.35 in January 2025.
Everyone called it the Solana killer.
But it will probably NEVER get back to ATH
The tech is there but the TOKENOMICS are designed to work against the price.
Let me show you exactly why 👇
Today it trades around $0.88 which is an 83% drawdown.
To reclaim ATH from here $SUI needs a 507% rally.
At current circulating supply that would require a market cap above $19B.
👉 But here is the problem :
By the time the price would hypothetically reach $5.35 again there will be billions more tokens in circulation.
At full dilution that is a $53.5B fully diluted market cap needed.
For reference ,$SOL sits at roughly $50B FDV after
> years of ecosystem dominance
> surviving multiple outages
> building the largest non-EVM DeFi ecosystem
> becoming a household name in crypto.
$SUI would need to become 75% the size of Solana.
Meanwhile the circulating market cap today is $3.4B. The FDV is already $8.8B.
That 2.5x gap between what exists and what is coming is a giant red flag the market is already pricing in.
The "Solana Killer" tag was given during the hype cycle and it did not age well.
Solana has gone 18+ months without a full network halt but $SUI went down for 6 hours in January 2026.
Its second major outage since a May 2023 launch with $1B in assets frozen
👉 The Unlock Wall
61% of all $SUI is still locked and it is unlocking every single month.
That is roughly 42 to 53 million tokens per month.
$40 to $50M in new supply every month until 2030.
April 1 2026 alone : 53.4M $SUI unlocking i.e. $47.5M.
Going to Community Reserve, early contributors and series B investors.
To reach $5.35 ATH the current 3.9B circulating tokens would need a $20.8B market cap.
But by end of 2026 circulating supply will be closer to 4.5B tokens.
That pushes the required market cap to $24B.
By 2028 when supply crosses 6B+ tokens you need $32B+
👉 The Chain is Shrinking.
If on-chain activity was exploding you could argue demand would absorb the unlocks.
TVL peaked at $2.57B in late 2025.
By March 2026 it crashed to $573M with 78% collapse with one of the most severe capital flights in recent DeFi history.
It has since recovered slightly to around $600M.
But for context, Solana DeFi TVL exceeds $10B.
$SUI is not even in the top 7 chains by TVL anymore.
In Q3 2025 daily active addresses fell 9.5% quarter over quarter.
Average daily transactions dropped 4.7%.
Total network fees declined 11.1% which measured in $SUI fell 22.3%.
Less users, transactions and revenue while more tokens keep hitting the market.
SUI
-4.23%
SOL
-6.43%
OurCryptoTalk
2026-04-02 06:53
$SUI hit $5.35 in January 2025.
Everyone called it the Solana killer.
But it will probably NEVER get back to ATH
The tech is there but the TOKENOMICS are designed to work against the price.
Let me show you exactly why 👇
Today it trades around $0.88 which is an 83% drawdown.
To reclaim ATH from here $SUI needs a 507% rally.
At current circulating supply that would require a market cap above $19B.
👉 But here is the problem :
By the time the price would hypothetically reach $5.35 again there will be billions more tokens in circulation.
At full dilution that is a $53.5B fully diluted market cap needed.
For reference ,$SOL sits at roughly $50B FDV after
> years of ecosystem dominance
> surviving multiple outages
> building the largest non-EVM DeFi ecosystem
> becoming a household name in crypto.
$SUI would need to become 75% the size of Solana.
Meanwhile the circulating market cap today is $3.4B. The FDV is already $8.8B.
That 2.5x gap between what exists and what is coming is a giant red flag the market is already pricing in.
The "Solana Killer" tag was given during the hype cycle and it did not age well.
Solana has gone 18+ months without a full network halt but $SUI went down for 6 hours in January 2026.
Its second major outage since a May 2023 launch with $1B in assets frozen
👉 The Unlock Wall
61% of all $SUI is still locked and it is unlocking every single month.
That is roughly 42 to 53 million tokens per month.
$40 to $50M in new supply every month until 2030.
April 1 2026 alone : 53.4M $SUI unlocking i.e. $47.5M.
Going to Community Reserve, early contributors and series B investors.
To reach $5.35 ATH the current 3.9B circulating tokens would need a $20.8B market cap.
But by end of 2026 circulating supply will be closer to 4.5B tokens.
That pushes the required market cap to $24B.
By 2028 when supply crosses 6B+ tokens you need $32B+
👉 The Chain is Shrinking.
If on-chain activity was exploding you could argue demand would absorb the unlocks.
TVL peaked at $2.57B in late 2025.
By March 2026 it crashed to $573M with 78% collapse with one of the most severe capital flights in recent DeFi history.
It has since recovered slightly to around $600M.
But for context, Solana DeFi TVL exceeds $10B.
$SUI is not even in the top 7 chains by TVL anymore.
In Q3 2025 daily active addresses fell 9.5% quarter over quarter.
Average daily transactions dropped 4.7%.
Total network fees declined 11.1% which measured in $SUI fell 22.3%.
Less users, transactions and revenue while more tokens keep hitting the market.