Kintsu Launches sHYPE on Hyperliquid

London, United Kingdom, September 16th, 2025, Chainwire Kintsu, a liquid staking protocol supported by investors including Castle Island Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, Spartan, Arche Capital, and F-Prime, has announced its expansion to Hyperliquid with the launch of sHYPE , now live on ￰1￱ protocol aims to address fragmentation in decentralized finance (DeFi) through decentralized validator curation and composable staking ￰2￱ is changing how liquid staking works on Hyperliquid by introducing a governance model that plays out like a game: delegates stake governance tokens and campaign for delegations by curating high performing validator ￰3￱ compete for stake, delegates compete for reputation and voting power, and the entire system is driven by transparent ￰4￱ result: validator performance fuels yield, and yield powers a more resilient, composable LST designed for the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

“By transforming simply staked assets into programmable collateral, we catalyze growth by infusing the highest risk-adjusted yields and boosting chain ￰5￱ scale, liquid staking must be controlled transparently and programmatically, it is necessary and inevitable that LSTs become truly community governed, not run in an opaque discretionary ￰6￱ two years of research and development, we are proud to announce that Kintsu is expanding to Hyperliquid and bringing a new level of resilience to liquid staking on the HyperEVM.” — Stephen, Founder of ￰7￱ Hyperliquid Hyperliquid has emerged as one of DeFi’s most important hubs, averaging billions in daily trading volume and strengthened by HIP-3’s permissionless market ￰8￱ launching sHYPE on Hyperliquid, Kintsu delivers: Validator Competition and Yield Structure — The decentralized validator registry enables open competition among validators, with yields determined by performance ￰9￱ output directly influences yield distribution, which in turn underpins the sHYPE token ￰10￱ and Integration — sHYPE is designed for direct integration with HyperEVM based decentralized finance applications and yield ￰11￱ CoreWriter contracts, it also connects with Hyperliquid’s native staking layer, expanding interoperability across the ￰12￱ and Governance Alignment — Unlike traditional locked staking mechanisms, sHYPE maintains liquidity for participants while supporting composable capital ￰13￱ structures oversee validator selection and curation, with the objective of ensuring transparency and incentive alignment across ￰14￱ Pass Multiplier NFT Over 300,000 participants engaged with the Beta Pass NFT, marking a significant milestone for the ￰15￱ on this response, the team has introduced the Battle Pass Multiplier ￰16￱ who join the waitlist will be entered into a selection process for a Battle ￰17￱ can be increased through referrals, staking sHYPE, and engaging with supported ￰18￱ participants will receive the Battle Pass Multiplier NFT, which provides 1.5x Kintsu Points, offering an early advantage in rank ￰19￱ initiative is designed around a community driven model of liquid staking, with validator performance and participant activity serving as key factors in shaping ￰20￱ can join the waitlist ￰21￱ Kintsu Kintsu is a liquid staking protocol built to unify fragmented DeFi ￰22￱ decentralized and gamified validator curation, composable staking tokens, and governance designed for credible neutrality, Kintsu is redefining validator alignment and protocol ￰23￱ can learn more at ￰0￱ Director of Growth Alexios Konstantinidis Kintsu alexios@kintsu.

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