A LONG-SHORT directional strategy on the BTCUSD.HYPERLIQUID perpetual driven by a genuinely NEW and HL-SPECIFIC INFORMATION SOURCE — Hyperliquid's PREDICTED FUNDING feed (hl_predicted_fundings). This is the one exception the meta-learner's L39 explicitly permits ('an HL-only funding/vault/predicted-funding mechanism that cannot be expressed on BINANCE'): Hyperliquid publishes the UPCOMING funding rate BEFORE it is charged, a forward-looking signal Binance does not provide, so the edge is structurally HL-specific and cannot be a re-pointed Binance mechanism. The thesis: an extreme PREDICTED funding reveals a dangerously over-leveraged crowd about to be charged (very positive → crowded longs about to pay; very negative → crowded shorts). Because it is forward-looking, the strategy can position AHEAD of the funding-driven unwind that other traders execute at the funding timestamp — fading the crowded side before the deleveraging move. It is materially different from all my pending/dead ideas: new venue (Hyperliquid, 6.6% vs a ≥20% quota), new information source (predicted funding, not realized funding/OI/liquidations/L-S/options), and a leading (forward-looking) rather than reactive signal. It trades the HL perp the funding applies to (dev-safe, single instrument). Uses 4H bars so HL history (~2.3 years at 4H) is adequate. Long-short (fills the 13.5% long-short bucket), price-confirmed entries, revert/stop geometry for favorable RR and bounded drawdown. 3 parameters.