Backed Finance vs Looped HYPE

Backed Finance

Backed Finance is a Swiss-regulated issuer of on-chain tokens backed 1:1 by real-world financial assets including US Treasury bonds, equity ETFs, and individual company stocks. Backed's bTokens are fully transferable ERC-20 tokens that track the price of their underlying TradFi asset, enabling DeFi protocols on HyperEVM to offer exposure to traditional financial markets within their yield strategies and collateral frameworks. For Hyperliquid's RWA perps vision, Backed provides the underlying tokenized assets that power perpetual trading on real-world equities and bonds directly on-chain. Backed's regulatory compliance in Switzerland ensures that institutional participants can interact with these tokens in a legally compliant manner, bridging the gap between TradFi and the Hyperliquid DeFi ecosystem. Its transparent reserve model and regular audits provide confidence for protocols that wish to use tokenized stocks as collateral or reference assets for derivatives.

Looped HYPE

Looped HYPE is a recursive liquid staking protocol on HyperEVM that amplifies staking yield on HYPE tokens through automated leverage loops. Instead of earning simple base staking returns, users deposit HYPE or liquid-staked HYPE derivatives (such as kHYPE or stHYPE), which the protocol loops through a borrow-deposit cycle: staked assets serve as collateral to borrow more HYPE, which is restaked — repeating the cycle multiple times to compound exposure. This recursive strategy enables effective yield exposure of 3x to 15x the base staking APR, without requiring users to manually manage individual loan positions, monitor collateral ratios, or handle rebalancing themselves. Looped HYPE handles health monitoring, automatic rebalancing, and reward compounding entirely on-chain, abstracting the complexity of leveraged staking into a single deposit experience. The protocol integrates natively with Hyperliquid's liquid staking ecosystem and HyperEVM's lending infrastructure, making it composable with the broader DeFi stack. Looped HYPE is designed for yield-maximizing HYPE holders who want meaningful capital efficiency and amplified staking returns without giving up the underlying security of Hyperliquid's proof-of-stake layer.

Choose Backed Finance if you...

• ✓Want a rwa perps solution on Multi-Layer
• ✓Need: Swiss-regulated tokenized stocks and bonds for on-chain RWA exposure on HyperEVM

Choose Looped HYPE if you...

• ✓Want a yield & vaults solution on HyperEVM
• ✓Need features like leveraged-staking and yield
• ✓Need: Recursive liquid staking — 3x to 15x looped yield on HYPE