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Kinetiq Research
Kinetiq builds liquid staking and market infrastructure for the Hyperliquid network. Its products include kHYPE liquid staking, Kinetiq Earn, institutional staking, validator infrastructure, KNTQ staking, and Launch, an Exchange-as-a-Service platform for HIP-3 perpetual markets.
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Kinetiq
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Kinetiq is a liquid staking protocol on Hyperliquid, designed to establish kHYPE as the network’s first staking pool. Through its StakeHub operating system, Kinetiq automates validator delegation and optimizes yield distribution across top-performing nodes. By staking $HYPE, users earn rewards while contributing to network security and liquidity. Audited by Spearbit, Pashov Audit Group, and Zenith, Kinetiq integrates with leading DeFi protocols such as Curve, Pendle, and Hyperlend, positioning itself as a core infrastructure layer for the growing Hyperliquid ecosystem.Category: Staking
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KHYPE
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kHYPE is a reward-accruing liquid staking token for HYPE, the native token of the Hyperliquid blockchain. Kinetiq enables users to stake HYPE and mint kHYPE, which can be used across an ecosystem of decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and yield strategies. Kinetiq Earn additionally allows users to deposit kHYPE for vkHYPE and pursue rewards through curated DeFi strategies, subject to third-party risks and geographic restrictions.Category: Liquid Staking
Launch By Kinetiq
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Launch by Kinetiq enables deployment and operation of perpetual futures exchanges on Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 protocol without the previously required $20M+ capital barrier. Its crowdfunding model helps teams raise the 500,000+ HYPE stake required for builder-deployed markets, with isolated staking pools limiting risk to the supported exchange.Category: Launch Pad
Markets
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Markets provides an interface for trading perpetual markets such as Bitcoin. The platform displays price, volume, open interest, funding, order books, trades, and charts, and supports leveraged long or short orders with take-profit and stop-loss settings. It also includes trader pages, statistics, a mobile app, documentation, and related resources. The rendered page attributes the service to Kinetiq Research.Category: Centralised Exchange
KNTQ
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KNTQ is Kinetiq’s governance token and primary value-accrual instrument. The protocol generates revenue from validator commissions, staking revenue, and market fees, with acquired KNTQ distributed to stakers through buybacks, burns, and rewards. Users can stake KNTQ for sKNTQ, which provides protocol rewards and staking benefits such as Markets.xyz fee discounts and referral rates.Category: Liquid Staking