Markets has listed $BVIV, the "Bitcoin VIX" perpetual, on Hyperliquid [mkts], giving traders long or short exposure to 30-day expected bitcoin volatility with up to 5x leverage. The instrument is denominated in USDC and was co-deployed by Markets, Volmex Finance, Perps Inc, and Seda Protocol.
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).
Kinetiq has launched the Elysium testnet, with a fresh third-party RPC endpoint now available. Hypedexer has stood up an Elysium testnet RPC — synced from genesis, with both HTTPS and WSS access — joining the block explorer, documentation, and official RPC endpoints already open to builders.
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 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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