Hyperliquid Bridge has pushed past EigenCloud for total value locked, signifying a major re-sorting among the leading DeFi infrastructure protocols. Data from DefiLlama shows that Hyperliquid Bridge has $6.53 billion in TVL compared to EigenCloud with $6.37 billion. Hyperliquid Bridge now ranks 9th out of 146 DeFi protocols that have over $200 million in TVL.
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Bridge Dominance Shifts
Hyperswitch from HYPE is now the biggest DeFi bridge. It allows users to move tokens from Ethereum mainnet to another chain with just one transaction. Users can then use their wrapped tokens to interact with the HYPE perpetuals.

Source: Medium
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Why Bridge TVL Rotation Is Important?
Bridge TVL, or Token Value Locked, is basically a measurement of the value of tokens that have been staked on various blockchain platforms. For Hyperliquid and its market makers the big number, $6.53 B is essentially a very strong message about users trust, chain liquidity and also indicates that HYPE’s custody is a better way to store their token than just farming points only.
Investors and exchanges looking at HYPE should consider Hyperliquid’s token economics and liquidity features that support both the protocol’s native token and the HYPE-USDC trade pairs. For developers, BridgeTVL is a way for them to see where money really is on the blockchain.
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DeFi Consolidation and Outlook
The DeFi TVL ranking has been concentrated among the top few protocols. According to DefiLlama figures, the top 10 DeFi protocols account for more than 60% of total aggregated DeFi TVL. HYPE’s growth can also be interpreted as the continuation or development of the trend towards application-specific L1s, the building of vertically integrated exchanges, and native bridging instead of third-party solutions like Wormhole and LayerZero.

Source: LinkedIn
In the future, HYPE’s sustainability will depend on the ability to maintain trading volumes, going beyond the existing perps market to spot and stablecoin infrastructure, and avoiding a potential bridge risk event that in the past has caused major contagious problems.
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