Kinetiq has set the Elysium mainnet launch for November 9th, announced via the Enter Elysium account as "a new era for Hyperliquid." The date follows the rollout of the Elysium testnet, whose third-party RPC access went live through QuickNode, Chainstack, Hypedexer, and Alchemy — Elysium's named launch RPC providers — alongside the block explorer, documentation, and official RPC endpoints already open to builders.
Kinetiq has distributed the final batch of kPoints and opened a 10-day claim window for holders to acquire KNTQ at a fixed price of $0.26/KNTQ. A total of 36,800,000 kPoints were distributed through the program, and participating holders have been allocated 50,000,000 KNTQ.
Ascend Launch announced a tokenomics update moving its buybacks from 90% HYPE / 10% KNTQ to 50% HYPE / 50% KNTQ, with Kinetiq framed as core to the program. Kinetiq retweeted the announcement, which increases demand for KNTQ through Ascend's buyback mechanics. No timeline, amounts, or further terms were disclosed.
BVIV, the "Bitcoin VIX" perpetual listed by Markets, is now live and tradeable on Hyperliquid (mkts). Perps Inc and Volmex Finance announced the launch, giving traders long or short exposure to BTC's 30-day implied volatility with up to 5x leverage, denominated in USDC.
Kinetiq announced that all HYPE staked on Gemini will be delegated to the Kinetiq validator on Hyperliquid. In a follow-up post, Kinetiq noted that the Kinetiq × Hyperion DeFi validator is powered by Mavana (MAVAN_BMNR).
Benzinga News is now live in Markets' home feed, placing real-time market coverage directly alongside trading content so users can go from signal to execution in one view. The integration works on both web and mobile, and was promoted by Benzinga and retweeted by Kinetiq — noting that traders already talk about the news and can now see it right alongside the conversation. Kinetiq frames it as part of Markets' push to be the fastest route from market intel to execution.
Markets has added a Truth Social / Trump market to its trading platform, per an announcement on X retweeted by Kinetiq. The listing gives traders exposure tied to Trump Media & Technology Group's social network, joining markets like the earlier Anthropic pre-IPO offering on the same platform. Contract terms, pricing, and settlement details were not disclosed in the brief announcement.
Kinetiq reports that $1M of KNTQ has been burnt. The burn follows the protocol's programmatic token purchases derived from protocol revenue, which it has executed over recent months as part of its buyback-and-burn mechanics.
The Kinetiq protocol published KIP-5, a proposal to redirect all purchased KNTQ tokens to the Hyperliquid Assistance Fund. Kinetiq says it has programmatically executed KNTQ purchases derived from protocol revenue for the last five months, and that effective immediately these purchases will accrue to the HL Assistance Fund.
Markets has launched an Anthropic pre-IPO exposure market, trading against expectations of an Anthropic IPO in late 2026 with an implied pre-money valuation embedded in the market. The offering lets traders speculate on the AI company's outcome before any official public listing.
Kinetiq distributed the final batch of kPoints (36.8M total) and opened a 10-day window for holders to acquire 50M KNTQ at $0.26/KNTQ. Unclaimed tokens return to the Kinetiq Foundation.
Kinetiq held the KNTQ token generation event, distributing the governance token via airdrop to eligible kPoints holders.
The Kinetiq Foundation unveiled KNTQ, a 1-billion-supply governance token, allocating 24% to kPoints holders via airdrop. The eligibility deadline for accepting the terms was November 21, 20:00 UTC.
Kinetiq raised $1.75 million in seed funding from investors including Maven 11, Pier Two, Chorus One Ventures, IMC Crypto, Infinite Field, Flowdesk, and Susquehanna.
Kinetiq introduced iHYPE, an institutional-grade liquid staking product, with Hyperion DeFi as the first institutional depositor. The launch expanded Kinetiq beyond its flagship kHYPE product, which had over $1.3B TVL at the time.
Kinetiq announced "Launch," an Exchange-as-a-Service platform that lets teams deploy their own perpetual-futures exchanges on Hyperliquid via HIP-3.
Kinetiq's liquid staking protocol went live on Hyperliquid's HyperEVM, allowing HYPE holders to stake for kHYPE. Ahead of the launch, whales unstaked roughly $40 million of HYPE.
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