How concentrated is Hyperliquid open interest? Top-10 wallets' share of BTC OI

GET /v1/hyperliquid/positions and GET /v1/hyperliquid/positions/symbols answer it in two calls. With symbol=BTC&sort=size&limit=10 the first returns the 10 biggest open BTC positions, and the second returns each coin's open interest as total_value, longs plus shorts, in USD. The top-10 share is the sum of the ten size_usd values over BTC's total_value. For one side, divide the top longs by total_value_long, or the top shorts by total_value_short. The full parameter lists are on Positions and Open interest by coin.

Quick answer

Read the ten biggest positions, then the coin's open interest.

# the 10 biggest open BTC positions, largest first
curl -H "X-API-Key: $VIKE_API_KEY" \
  "https://data.vike.io/v1/hyperliquid/positions?symbol=BTC&sort=size&limit=10"

# open interest per coin; take the BTC row
curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $VIKE_API_KEY" \
  "https://data.vike.io/v1/hyperliquid/positions/symbols" \
  | jq '.[] | select(.symbol == "BTC")'

Example response

Captured from the live API on 2026-10-24 at 17:15 UTC: the output of the second call, the BTC row of /positions/symbols.

The ten biggest positions, captured three seconds earlier, summed to $1,044.0M, so 29.7% of BTC's $3,517.5M open interest sat in ten wallets. Five of the ten were shorts worth $726.8M, which is 41.2% of all BTC short interest; the five longs held 18.1% of long interest. The top 20 held 39.0%. count is the number of open positions, 40,907 here.

{
  "symbol": "BTC",
  "total_value": 3517530411.0,
  "total_value_long": 1755336015.0,
  "total_value_short": 1762194396.0,
  "count": 40907,
  "count_long": 28271,
  "count_short": 12636,
  "venue_open_interest_usd": 3496304666.0
}

Variations

The top 100. Raise limit for a top-100 share.

# the 100 biggest open BTC positions, for a top-100 share
curl -H "X-API-Key: $VIKE_API_KEY" \
  "https://data.vike.io/v1/hyperliquid/positions?symbol=BTC&sort=size&limit=100"

The share in one step. Total the ten rows and split them by side.

# the top-10 notional and its split by side, to divide by BTC's total_value
curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $VIKE_API_KEY" \
  "https://data.vike.io/v1/hyperliquid/positions?symbol=BTC&sort=size&limit=10" \
  | jq '{top10_usd: ([.positions[].size_usd] | add), longs_usd: ([.positions[] | select(.direction == "long") | .size_usd] | add), shorts_usd: ([.positions[] | select(.direction == "short") | .size_usd] | add)}'

Every coin at once, from the 5-minute file. For a concentration table across all coins, download the file of every open position and group it by asset and wallet in your own tools.

# a temporary link to the current open positions of every asset, refreshed about every 5 minutes
curl -H "X-API-Key: $VIKE_API_KEY" \
  "https://data.vike.io/v1/hyperliquid/archive/url?dataset=positions&date=latest"

Before you rely on it

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 with view: positions and sort: size, then view: open_interest, at 1 credit a call.

What share of BTC open interest on Hyperliquid do the 10 biggest positions hold right now?

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