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Stanley Druckenmiller quietly added a new kind of crypto bet last quarter.
Duquesne Family Office held 2.94 million shares of Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (NASDAQ:PURR) on June 30, a stake worth $23.15 million and its first reported position in the company.
The second-quarter filing showed Duquesne's reported portfolio expanding from $3.38 billion across 70 positions to $5.21 billion across 95.
The disclosure has already produced headlines for the fund's Amazon and Alphabet purchases and its IREN and crypto-infrastructure positions, but the overlooked PURR holding reveals a different crypto wager.
PURR is not Hyperliquid itself. It is a digital asset treasury company that accumulates and stakes Hyperliquid (CRYPTO: HYPE), the token behind the fast-growing on-chain exchange.
The stake represented roughly 0.44% of Duquesne's reported portfolio, according to the filing. PURR reported holding 20 million HYPE tokens and $103 million in cash as of April 29.
Duquesne has not explained why it established the position.
Why Hyperliquid Is So Hyped
Hyperliquid is an on-chain exchange best known for perpetual futures, which are leveraged contracts with no expiration date.
It offers fast, low-cost trading around the clock, handles billions of dollars in daily volume and generates more than $900 million in annual protocol fees, according to PURR.
A portion of that fee revenue supports HYPE buybacks, while holders can also earn staking income. A recent upgrade known as HIP-3 enabled developers to launch perpetual contracts tied to oil, metals, equities and other real-world assets.
PURR provides indirect public-market exposure to HYPE, although its shares can trade above or below the value of its token holdings.
The timing is notable. Hyperliquid launched HIP-4, its new outcome-market system, on May 2, during the same quarter in which Duquesne established its PURR position.
The product supports fully collateralized contracts that settle on real-world events, including crypto prices, Federal Reserve decisions, inflation and sports.
That puts Hyperliquid in competition with Polymarket and Kalshi, although it remains primarily a trading platform rather than a consumer prediction market app.
Within 25 days of launch, HIP-4 captured roughly 20% of combined Hyperliquid-Polymarket daily volume for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) prediction markets, according to Galaxy.