EQX Labs Wins EQANT Spot Ticker on Hyperliquid for 500 HYPE

The $35,800 paid for a four-letter ticker is a pure naming-rights bet: the value rests entirely on the planned ANT listing for Anthropic, not on any tokenized asset that exists yet. It shows Hyperliquid's ticker auction functioning as a speculative market in its own right, where deployers price future attention rather than current utility. The open question is whether EQX Labs can tie EQANT to anything substantive before the Anthropic ticker association draws scrutiny or the premium looks stranded.