Arthur Hayes sells HYPE stock – for new Ferrari
- “I need to put down my down payment on the new Rari 849 Testarossa,” Arthur Hayes writes in an X post. The Italian sports car costs around $540,000.
- The BitMEX founder has cleared his HYPE portfolio.
- On-chain data from Lookonchain shows that Hayes realized a profit of around $823,000 from the sale of his 96,628 HYPE – an increase of 19.2 percent.
Arthur Hayes(@CryptoHayes) just sold all 96,628 $HYPE($5.1M) he bought a month ago, making ~$823K(+19.2%).
During his speech at the WebX Summit on Aug 25, he predicted a 126x upside for $HYPE, but is now out with less than a 20% gain.https://t.co/B6z5x7dOsv pic.twitter.com/69s0ZzIIii
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 21, 2025
- As recently as August, Hayes predicted a 126-fold increase in the price of the HYPE token at the WebX conference in Tokyo.
- HYPE is the native token of the decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid.
- The price is currently trading at $49, a decline of eight percent over a 24-hour period – but still an increase of 660 percent since its launch in November 2024.
- Read why the share price is currently on the brink in this HYPE analysis.
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- Data from Hypurrscan