HyPC
Summary
HyperCycle (HYPC) is an Ethereum ERC-20 token marketed as infrastructure for decentralized AI-to-AI transactions, co-founded by SingularityNET's Ben Goertzel and TODA inventor Toufi Saliba. The token has lost approximately 99% of its value from its all-time high of $1.29, and its smart contract contains a PAUSER_ROLE that allows a designated admin to halt all token transfers at will. No independent smart contract security audit has been publicly submitted, and the tokenomics structure — which allocates 20% to team, advisors, and partners with a relatively short vesting cliff — has been cited by multiple analysts as generating sustained selling pressure that disadvantages retail participants. ZachXBT has broadly flagged AI-narrative token projects as high-risk.
Timeline(8 events)
2023-04-01
HyperCycle ICO/IDO begins; token sale conducted on Seedify, Poolz Finance, and Vent Finance at a public price of $0.085 per HYPC. Project raised approximately $8.96M total across all rounds.
CoinCarp / CryptoRank2023-05-05
HyperCycle IDO closes. Token generation event (TGE) occurs; 10% of public sale allocation unlocked immediately, with 3-month cliff and 21-month monthly vesting thereafter.
CoinCarp project info2023-05-08
HYPC records an early price peak of approximately $1.29, representing a ~15x return over the IDO price within days of launch.
CoinMarketCap2023-10-24
HYPC reaches a second all-time high of approximately $1.11–$1.18, driven by renewed AI token narrative interest. This becomes the definitive ATH reference point.
CryptoRank / CoinCodex2024-01-01
HYPC begins sustained decline as AI token hype cycle cools. Team and early investor vesting unlocks begin contributing to sell pressure.
CoinGecko historical data2025-01-01
HYPC opens 2025 at approximately $0.191. The token then declines 96.4% over the course of 2025 to approximately $0.0068 by year end.
CryptoRank price history2026-04-04
HYPC records its all-time low of approximately $0.003914 on Ethereum Mainnet.
CoinMarketCap2026-05-01
HYPC trading at approximately $0.008, down approximately 99.4% from ATH. Market cap approximately $1.27M. CertiK security rating listed at 3.8/10. ZachXBT intelligence feed flags HYPC for AVOID.NET investigation.
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model: claude-sonnet
generated: 5/4/2026, 4:05:02 PM
last updated: 5/19/2026, 4:03:19 PM
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