One of the most important lessons I keep reminding myself is that I should always plan my stop-loss and selling targets in advance. Without that discipline, it’s easy to let emotions take over, and this week was another reminder of that.

On the DeFi side, my holdings remain centered around HYPE. I currently have 1,508 PT-vkHYPE and 1,006 HYPE staked. Kinetiq (epoch 8) stayed steady, closing the week at 619 points with a Diamond tier, without much change in strategy. Hyperlend (epoch 25) reached 9.97k points, where I deposited 250 HYPE and borrowed 6,000 USDC. HypurrFi (epoch 30) grew to 40,685, with 1,508 PT-vkHYPE and 42,000 PURR locked, alongside a loan of 310. Upheaval now sits at 81,904 points, where I provided liquidity with 70 HYPE and 3,500 USDC; an airdrop and the UPHL launchpad are expected this week. Meanwhile, Felix (epoch 18) at 67 (Silver) and HyperBeat (epoch 23) at 2,020 (Diamond) remain on hold as I don’t have the bandwidth to actively manage them this week.

Trading was a different story. My overall trading size was about 80k, split between Based and Aster. On Based, across two accounts, I held 60.4k, while on Aster I maintained around 20k (17k in spot and 3k in perps). The volatility this week was extreme. Even though $PUP soared to over 100 times my entry price, I failed to take profits at the right time and ended up worse off than last week. Overtrading only made the damage heavier.

Despite this, I see Aster as Hyperliquid’s true testing ground. I plan to begin farming there more actively. For now, I’m holding a single spot position but intend to balance between spot and perps, while also hedging through Based. My main priority won’t be profit-driven trading, but rather activity aimed at future airdrops. When I do trade, I’ll keep leverage low and focus on accumulating more HYPE.

For my daily routine, I continue to check in on Farcaster and Remix, Hyperlend, DripTrade, and Liminal. The projects I’m most actively playing with are BasedApp, Kinetiq, Liminal, Unit, HypurrFi, and Hyperlend, along with OpenSea, Farcaster, Remix, and Paragraph. Looking forward, Aster is the one project that’s really caught my attention and deserves deeper study.

Next week already looks busy. On September 22nd at 13:00, the UPHL launchpad begins, and I’ll be allocating $5.9k out of my $8.9k main account into it. The rest, combined with potential profits from Aster, will be distributed into Abstract ($3k), OpenSea ($2k), and Calci Polymarket ($2k). It’s a packed schedule, but one I’m looking forward to.

One of the most important lessons I keep reminding myself is that I should always plan my stop-loss and selling targets in advance. Without that discipline, it’s easy to let emotions take over, and this week was another reminder of that.

On the DeFi side, my holdings remain centered around HYPE. I currently have 1,508 PT-vkHYPE and 1,006 HYPE staked. Kinetiq (epoch 8) stayed steady, closing the week at 619 points with a Diamond tier, without much change in strategy. Hyperlend (epoch 25) reached 9.97k points, where I deposited 250 HYPE and borrowed 6,000 USDC. HypurrFi (epoch 30) grew to 40,685, with 1,508 PT-vkHYPE and 42,000 PURR locked, alongside a loan of 310. Upheaval now sits at 81,904 points, where I provided liquidity with 70 HYPE and 3,500 USDC; an airdrop and the UPHL launchpad are expected this week. Meanwhile, Felix (epoch 18) at 67 (Silver) and HyperBeat (epoch 23) at 2,020 (Diamond) remain on hold as I don’t have the bandwidth to actively manage them this week.

Trading was a different story. My overall trading size was about 80k, split between Based and Aster. On Based, across two accounts, I held 60.4k, while on Aster I maintained around 20k (17k in spot and 3k in perps). The volatility this week was extreme. Even though $PUP soared to over 100 times my entry price, I failed to take profits at the right time and ended up worse off than last week. Overtrading only made the damage heavier.

Despite this, I see Aster as Hyperliquid’s true testing ground. I plan to begin farming there more actively. For now, I’m holding a single spot position but intend to balance between spot and perps, while also hedging through Based. My main priority won’t be profit-driven trading, but rather activity aimed at future airdrops. When I do trade, I’ll keep leverage low and focus on accumulating more HYPE.

For my daily routine, I continue to check in on Farcaster and Remix, Hyperlend, DripTrade, and Liminal. The projects I’m most actively playing with are BasedApp, Kinetiq, Liminal, Unit, HypurrFi, and Hyperlend, along with OpenSea, Farcaster, Remix, and Paragraph. Looking forward, Aster is the one project that’s really caught my attention and deserves deeper study.

Next week already looks busy. On September 22nd at 13:00, the UPHL launchpad begins, and I’ll be allocating $5.9k out of my $8.9k main account into it. The rest, combined with potential profits from Aster, will be distributed into Abstract ($3k), OpenSea ($2k), and Calci Polymarket ($2k). It’s a packed schedule, but one I’m looking forward to.