Glossary

In Hyperion Exchange (HyperionX), users can play various roles and perform diverse operations: Roles:

  1. User: Everyone using the platform, including traders, liquidity providers (LPs), and token holders.

  2. Trader: A user who trades on the exchange.

  3. Liquidity Provider (LP): A user who provides liquidity to the exchange, obtaining HLP in return for depositing USDX and earning liquidity profits.

  4. Holder: A user holding HPX tokens, who can either interact with the exchange or become LPs/Traders.

  5. Staker: A user who stakes HLP to earn rewards.

  6. VIP: Users who reach a specific trading volume or HLP staking amount.

  7. Inviter: Users who send invitation codes and earn profits from invitees.

  8. Invitee: Users who use invitation codes.

Operations:

  1. Trade: Opening, closing, and swapping actions performed by users on HyperionX.

  2. Perpetual: Buying long or selling short contracts on the Perp page, adjusting margin.

  3. Options: Opening, closing, and settling operations on the Options page.

  4. Buy HLP: Providing USDX to mint HLP, earning liquidity profits.

  5. Sell HLP: Destroying HLP to retrieve USDX.

  6. Stake SLP: Staking HLP tokens to earn rewards.

  7. Unlock: Retrieving locked HLP tokens.

  8. One-Click Trade (1CT): Allows users to trade without pop-up confirmations.

Trading Behaviors:

  1. Users gain profits or incur losses from the liquidity pool through trading.

  2. Perpetual contracts are settled in USDX, allowing users to profit from long or short positions.

Menu Bar:

  1. Borrow Fee: Interest rate for borrowed funds.

  2. Long Open Interest (OI L): Total amount of perpetual contracts held by long positions.

  3. Short Open Interest (OI S): Total amount of perpetual contracts held by short positions.

  4. Long/Short Ratio (L/S): Ratio of long to short position volumes.

  5. Funding Rate: Funding fees paid between long and short positions.

Trading Window:

  1. Long: Going long, profiting from price increases.

  2. Short: Going short, profiting from price decreases.

  3. Market Order: Executing trades at market prices.

  4. Limit Order: Setting trades at specific prices.

  5. Available Balance: Funds in the exchange wallet.

  6. Available Liquidity: Remaining liquidity available for trading.

  7. Total Position: Holding volume of perpetual futures contracts.

  8. Stop Orders: Stop loss and take profit orders.

  9. Collateral: Funds required to open a position.

  10. Liquidation Price (Liq.Price): Price at which perpetual futures are forcibly settled.

  11. Trading Fees: Fees paid for placing orders/closing positions.

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