Are Hyperliquid whales taking or making? Market versus limit share of large fills

Group a coin's /large-fills by size_cohort and order_type; a cohort's market share above 50% means it takes liquidity more than it provides, since every trade in the feed has one market and one limit side.

GET /v1/hl-cohorts/symbols/{symbol}/large-fills answers it in one call: a coin's newest fills over $50,000, each saying whether the wallet crossed the book (order_type: market, a taker) or rested on it (limit, a maker), with the wallet's account-size rung in size_cohort. Sum size_usd per size_cohort and order_type; the market share of a cohort's USD is how much of its large-fill volume it took rather than made. The full parameter list is on Large fills.

Quick answer

Nothing but the coin: the default returns everything the feed holds.

cURL

# every ETH fill over $50,000 the feed holds
curl -H "X-API-Key: $VIKE_API_KEY" \
  "https://data.vike.io/v1/hl-cohorts/symbols/ETH/large-fills"

Example response

Captured from the live API on 2026-10-24 at 17:19 UTC, trimmed to 4 rows of 200. The 200 rows covered the 30 minutes from covered_from to the call. Across all of them the market and limit sides each total $14.57M, because every trade appears once per side: 50% is the baseline, not a finding. By cohort, 4x whale wallets took 72% of their $6.67M ($4.82M at market) and whale wallets 71%, while 2x whale and 3x whale wallets almost only made, 1% and 0%. All four whale rungs together came to 51%.

Example response

{
  "symbol": "ETH",
  "min_usd": 50000.0,
  "hours": 24,
  "covered_from": "2026-10-24T16:49:30.623000+00:00",
  "truncated": true,
  "has_more": false,
  "size_cohort_basis": "current",
  "fills": [
    {
      "ts": "2026-10-24T17:18:46.608000+00:00",
      "wallet": "0x0622a2198712c9527817493553dca548f42e8088",
      "direction": "sell",
      "size_token": 36.6585,
      "size_usd": 85025.7249,
      "price": 2319.4,
      "order_type": "market",
      "size_cohort": "4x whale",
      "pnl_cohort": "3x rekt",
      "pnl_cohort_basis": "current"
    },
    {
      "ts": "2026-10-24T17:18:46.608000+00:00",
      "wallet": "0xdc519874071cca5457fdf8b3c31760ac1ca16ef7",
      "direction": "buy",
      "size_token": 36.6585,
      "size_usd": 85025.7249,
      "price": 2319.4,
      "order_type": "limit",
      "size_cohort": "2x shark",
      "pnl_cohort": "3x rekt",
      "pnl_cohort_basis": "current"
    },
    {
      "ts": "2026-10-24T17:18:46.608000+00:00",
      "wallet": "0x0622a2198712c9527817493553dca548f42e8088",
      "direction": "sell",
      "size_token": 25.8335,
      "size_usd": 59918.219900000004,
      "price": 2319.4,
      "order_type": "market",
      "size_cohort": "4x whale",
      "pnl_cohort": "3x rekt",
      "pnl_cohort_basis": "current"
    },
    {
      "ts": "2026-10-24T17:18:46.608000+00:00",
      "wallet": "0xdc519874071cca5457fdf8b3c31760ac1ca16ef7",
      "direction": "buy",
      "size_token": 25.8335,
      "size_usd": 59918.219900000004,
      "price": 2319.4,
      "order_type": "limit",
      "size_cohort": "2x shark",
      "pnl_cohort": "3x rekt",
      "pnl_cohort_basis": "current"
    }
  ]
}

Variations

BTC. The same split on the busiest coin, where 200 fills reach back about 20 minutes.

cURL — BTC

# every BTC fill over $50,000 the feed holds
curl -H "X-API-Key: $VIKE_API_KEY" \
  "https://data.vike.io/v1/hl-cohorts/symbols/BTC/large-fills"

Only the biggest fills. Raise min_usd to see who takes on the largest prints.

cURL — 250k and up

# HYPE fills of $250,000 or more from the last 24 hours
curl -H "X-API-Key: $VIKE_API_KEY" \
  "https://data.vike.io/v1/hl-cohorts/symbols/HYPE/large-fills?min_usd=250000"

Before you rely on it

A short window and a few wallets

The feed keeps the newest 200 fills over $50,000 per coin, so on ETH the shares describe half an hour, not a day; read covered_from and repeat the call to build a longer sample. In a short window one or two wallets can make up a whole cohort, so count distinct wallets before you generalise. size_cohort is the wallet's rung now, not at the fill, and fills under $50,000 are not counted at all.

Ask your agent

Connected to the Vike MCP server (https://vike.io/mcp) in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, ask it in plain words. The hl_market tool answers (view large_fills), at 1 credit a call.

Ask your agent

In ETH's recent fills over $50,000, what share of each whale rung's volume was taken at market?

Are Hyperliquid whales taking or making? Market versus limit share of large fills

Quick answer

Example response

Variations

Before you rely on it

Ask your agent

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