Hyperliquid vaults - the search for alpha


Went through all vaults in Hyperlid, looking for alpha … The average crypto participant couldn’t care less about it but if all I want is beta I’d rather just buy BTC. In traditional finance markets, it’s very hard to do this kind of analysis but , in crypto, vaults provide a very interesting opportunity. Obviously alpha is scarce but the data is out there for us to look at in a way that doesn’t exist in tradfi.

Methodology

  • Retrieved data for all vaults and compute capital adjusted percentage returns. The goal was to adjust for capital changes which are frequent in vaults
  • Compute alpha vs both SOL & Beta
  • Compute sharpe
  • Look for high sharpe traders that have ~ statistically significant across SOL & BTC
  • Filter for traders with > 10k usd. Realistically I won’t be comfortable to hand over my money to someone trading a very small amount of money
  • Filter for >120 days of trading

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Key stats for the top performers :

NameTVL (kUSDT)Sharpe RatioGain %SOL Alpha - tstat
Growi HF30532.3773
Delta_018121.912732.3
pmalt1192.54842.2
HLP Liquidator5992.61464932
Tedy57123221.71732
Sentiment Edge602.2911.9
Spitfire10741.82461.9
Martyrbit9721.9271.8
-VectorZero-171.8791.8
Cryptoaddcited1401.8481.7
Quebi - Apex One12281.7
Road to 10 Million1801.51231.6
Octavious Maximus122.13451.5
Gucky_2coin_1dot75x141.8411.5
Crypto Trading Channel711.3161.4
JizzJazz541.21771.3
Zhelvis131.51341.3
yubo degen fund1251.6771.2
DailyTradeAI Low risk4281.1871.2
BTC / SOL / HYPE Trend + L/S Overlay501.4291.1

Some vaults like Growi 01, Delta_01, pmalt, Sentiment Edge & Spitfire look very interesting - high sharpe with statically significant alpha.

Growi HF

Delta01HF

pmalt

SemtimentEdge Spitfire Tedy57123