{"id":42959,"date":"2025-08-19T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42959"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:17:00","slug":"valantis-acquires-sthype-expanding-liquid-staking-reach-on-hyperliquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42959","title":{"rendered":"Valantis Acquires stHYPE, Expanding Liquid Staking Reach on Hyperliquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Valantis, a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol, has acquired Staked Hype (stHYPE), the second-largest liquid staking token (LST) on Hyperliquid. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>stHYPE, which launched as the first LST on HyperEVM, currently holds about $180 million in total value locked (TVL), according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stakedhype.fi\/\">stHYPE website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the deal, stHYPE\u2019s operations, development, and scaling will be managed by Valantis Labs. Addison Spiegel, founder of Thunderhead, the team behind stHYPE, will serve as an advisor to Valantis.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid staking has become a central pillar within Hyperliquid\u2019s ecosystem. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/hyperliquid-l1\">DeFiLlama<\/a>, liquid staking accounts for more than half of Hyperliquid L1\u2019s $2.26 billion in DeFi TVL<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition builds on Valantis\u2019 earlier launch of LST-specific DEX pools for both stHYPE and hHYPE, which together have attracted nearly $70 million in TVL and processed more than $500 million in trading volume.<\/p>\n<p>Valantis said in a press release it plans to expand stHYPE\u2019s integrations with its DEX and HyperCore, with the goal of establishing a broader liquidity network for Hyperliquid.<\/p>\n<p>HyperEVM, which went live in February, has grown to more than $2 billion in TVL across nearly 100 protocols.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:<\/em><\/strong> <em>Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/ethics\">our standards<\/a>. For more information, see<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/coindesk-news\/2023\/04\/14\/how-coindesk-will-use-generative-ai-tools\"><em>CoinDesk&#8217;s full AI Policy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valantis, a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol, has acquired Staked Hype (stHYPE), the second-largest liquid staking token (LST) on Hyperliquid. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. stHYPE, which launched as the first LST on HyperEVM, currently holds about $180 million in total value locked (TVL), according to the stHYPE website. Following the deal, stHYPE\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-42959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}