Income, Balanced, Aggressive: read the leaderboard through your own eyes
The same vault is right for one investor and wrong for another. How the Income, Balanced, and Aggressive fit scores work — and how to use them to build your own basket by hand.
Topic
vaults
A collection of 46 issues
What we measure on a vault, and what it actually means
TVL, drawdown, Calmar, gross leverage, leader stake — every column on the vault leaderboard in plain English, and the trap each one is built to catch.
How the Altcopy Index works
The Altcopy Index is a mechanical, rules-based basket of Hyperliquid's strongest investable vaults. The membership rule, the 40% whale cap, how to follow it by hand today — and the vault of vaults coming next.
The Hyperliquid vault leaderboard, and why the official list isn't enough
Hyperliquid's official vault list ranks by a flattering APR and sweeps the graveyard off the page. Here's the leaderboard I built instead — every number recomputed from public data, nothing taken on faith.
The survivors nobody talks about: two of Hyperliquid's oldest vaults
Age is the cheapest filter in vault-picking. Two of Hyperliquid's oldest vaults — one running 2.6 years — survived 48% drawdowns and came back. But one now sits in cash and the other is an underwater long with a 77% whale. Longevity buys a look, not a deposit.
Skin in the game, tested: when the manager's own money still isn't enough
Three Hyperliquid vaults where the manager holds 42–62% of their own fund — far above the 5% floor — and results from −30% to +56% a year. The cleanest test there is of whether “skin in the game” means anything. It proves conviction, not competence.
Is anyone else doing this? Hyperliquid vaults vs. the alternatives
Copy trading, on-chain managed funds, “house” liquidity pools, Drift's vaults — what's actually comparable to a Hyperliquid vault, and what's genuinely one-of-a-kind. With a side-by-side table, and why the closest peer just lost $285M.
The vault scammer's playbook: every con, and the red flag that gives it away
Pooled money attracts con artists. The full playbook of vault scams — paper-profit mirages, annualized-month APRs, backdoor contracts — and the public-data fingerprint that gives each away. Plus why the safety model is shifting from legacy native vaults to the HyperEVM future.
Double the leverage, not double the money: Growi HF vs. its 2x twin
HyperTwin runs the exact same strategy as Growi HF — at 2x leverage. It's the closest thing to a controlled experiment on Hyperliquid. The result: barely more headline return, 4.5x the drawdown, and a lifetime loss while the 1x version quietly compounded $1.65M.
Paper profits: why a vault being “up” isn’t the same as having made money
On Hyperliquid, a vault's open positions are marked to market — so its “return” quietly blends money it has actually banked with paper gains it hasn't. One top vault's standing is 60% unrealized, riding on a single coin. How to tell proven skill from a bet still in play.