Staking, restaking, liquidity and trading products that pay more than the alternatives and still let you out.
stHYPE
HYPEstHYPEstHYPE can do. HYPE-USDMark64.38524h Change+4.12%20% off fees| TIER | HOLD stHYPE | FEES OFF |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 10 | 5% |
| Bronze | 100 | 10% |
| Silver | 1,000 | 15% |
| Gold · You | 10,000 | 20% |
| Platinum | 100,000 | 30% |
| Diamond | 500,000 | 40% |
From 5% off at 10 stHYPE to 40% off at 500,000. Your stHYPE keeps earning the whole time.
Trade on PrimeInstitutions pay for HYPE’s fee discounts and deployer rights. Your HYPE stays staked, never lent or sold. Paid daily in HYPE.
Restake stHYPEStake in one transaction. To get out, swap to HYPE in seconds, or unstake for free in about 5 days. Native staking takes 7.
Read the full comparison → stHYPE anywhere.Accepted by lending markets, vaults and DEXs across HyperEVM. Borrow against it, loop it or LP it, and your staking rewards keep accruing the whole time.
11 apps accept stHYPE See the full ecosystem → Native staking, kHYPE and stHYPE all earn HYPE staking rewards. The difference is what you give up to get them.
| Feature | Native staking |  kHYPE |
stHYPE
BEST OF BOTH |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earns HYPE staking rewards | Yes 2.18% APR | Yes 1.86% APY | Yes 1.97% APY |
| Stays liquid while staked | No Locked while staked | Yes | Yes Use it across DeFi |
| Time to get HYPE back | No 7 days | No 7–8.5 days | Yes ≈4.8 days avg, up to 7 days |
| Hyperliquid trading fee discount | Yes Up to 40% | No | Yes Up to 40% with Prime |
| Restaking for extra HYPE | No | No | Yes Yes, paid in HYPE |
stHYPE BEST OF BOTH kHYPE Native staking HYPE? Start here.Build a HYPE position from USDC, and see where liquidity engineering goes next.
Deposit USDC and DCA into HYPE at your limit price. Unused stablecoins earn yield on HyperEVM until each order fills.
Next, we're applying liquidity engineering to Hyperliquid's largest markets: native staking, institutional liquidity, and trading.
We assume most of DeFi offers poor risk/reward and design against it. We avoid pooled risk unless it creates real liquidity, show every strategy's terms before you opt in, and have every contract independently audited.
Read the audits →
Mechanism design, onchain data and lessons from building stHYPE, STEX and Prime. Written by the team that ships them.
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