Tesla Unveils its New Flying Roadster

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Tesla showed a second-generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters during a livestream on Thursday at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas. After that demonstration, Tesla-linked perpetual futures on Hyperliquid moved back to about $357 after an overnight rise toward $380.

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Tesla revealed its second-generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters during a livestream on Thursday at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas, outside Waco.
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The demonstration showed a driverless prototype going up a curved ramp, flipping off it, and landing on its wheels.
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Tesla-linked perpetual futures on Hyperliquid fell back to around $357 after an overnight move toward $380.
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Hyperliquid listed the TSLA-USDC contract at a mark price of $356.66, down $3.42 over 24 hours.

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Tesla’s Roadster reveal was visible immediately to viewers watching the livestream and to people tracking the event at the SpaceX test site. The demo added a public image of a driverless prototype using a ramp and landing on its wheels, which is the concrete change those audiences saw that day.

Before the reveal, the Hyperliquid contract had already moved during the overnight session, and after the demonstration it was quoted back near $357. That means the market instrument is still trading, but its level changed over that short window rather than disappearing or switching to a different contract.

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