Rebuilding Hyperliquid's L4 Order Book From Raw Node Data

The L2 Order Book You See in the UI Isn't the Full Story

Hyperliquid's UI shows you aggregated L2 depth — price levels summed together. For market microstructure research (order flow, queue position, individual order lifetimes) you need L4: visibility down to the individual Order ID.

Rebuilding L4 from raw node data

L4 Order Book Reconstruction is an ETL engine that:

1. Downloads the raw LZ4 files from Hyperliquid's official node-data bucket
2. Replays the order-status events in sequence
3. Exports the result to Apache Parquet (ZSTD) — with per-order visibility, not aggregated price levels

This is for quants and data teams who need real microstructure, not a UI-level order book snapshot.

Requirements & honest caveats:

• Python
• Your own AWS account (the official bucket is requester-pays — transfer costs are billed to whoever downloads)
• Disk space for the Parquet output
• Status: 4/4 unit tests passing. The full pipeline hasn't yet been run end-to-end against the live bucket — stated here for transparency, not buried in fine print.
• Hyperliquid hasn't published an explicit redistribution clause for this data — a known, shared risk across every provider working with this dataset, not specific to this tool.

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