The $52.5 area was identified as an important support level when our previous analysis examined whether buyers were strong enough to defend it.
Price briefly fell below the level on July 31 but recovered before the daily close. Selling returned during the August 1 session, pushing HYPE back underneath it while the token remained inside the descending channel that has guided price lower since early July.
The current candle has not closed, so the move is not yet a confirmed daily breakdown. The next support sits only slightly lower, making the reaction around $51 more important than the intraday loss of $52.5 alone.
The weakness continued despite a new protocol milestone announced on July 31.
Hyperliquid said the initial implementation of permissionless HIP-4 deployments is now live on testnet.
HIP-4 is a standard for fully collateralized contracts that settle within a fixed range. It can support prediction markets, event-based contracts and option-like products without the open-ended exposure associated with perpetual futures.
The permissionless rollout allows developers to begin testing their own outcome markets instead of relying entirely on markets introduced through Hyperliquid’s existing deployment process.
The implementation is still being developed. Hyperliquid said configurable fees and additional testnet market templates will be introduced gradually.
For now, HIP-4 expands what developers can build on the platform, but it does not show how much demand those products will attract on mainnet or whether their use will increase demand for HYPE. Price continued to follow the descending channel after the announcement.
The next support sits near $51, where the 0.5 Fibonacci retracement meets the lower boundary of the descending channel.
Because both levels are concentrated in the same area, a daily close below $51 would carry more weight than the current move under $52.5. It would break the Fibonacci support and push price beneath the channel that has contained the decline since July began.
Below that area, the chart shows limited visible support before approximately $47, but reaching that level will delete more than 40 days of gains.
HYPE traded around $47 between May 17 and May 20 before beginning the advance that eventually carried it toward its all-time high. That earlier consolidation makes it the next historical area where buyers may respond, although it should be treated as a zone rather than a fixed floor.
A daily recovery above $52.5 would reverse the latest break, but it would not end the broader decline. HYPE would still face the upper half of the descending channel and a heavier resistance cluster between $56 and $57.
That area includes:
An intraday move into the zone would not be enough to change the structure. HYPE would need to close above the cluster and remain there to weaken the descending channel.
Until that happens, $51.2 is the immediate test. Holding it would keep the current channel intact and leave room for another rebound, while a daily close below it would expose the previous demand area around $47.
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