About

.Our Hyperliquid staking integration enables seamless delegation of HYPE tokens to any active Hyperliquid validator. Behind the scenes, Hyperliquid uses a dual-layer architecture:

• HyperEVM – an EVM-compatible Layer 1 where HYPE exists and transactions are initiated.
• HyperCore – the high-performance execution layer where staking operations actually occur.
• CoreWriter – the contract that connects these layers, allowing EVM transactions to control staking, unstaking, and fund movement on HyperCore.

Once the delegate action is completed, user funds are locked for 1 day but the rewards are being earned during this time. After this lockup period, delegations may be partially or fully undelegated at any time. Rewards are accrued every minute and distributed to stakers every day. Rewards are redelegated automatically to the staked validator so users do not need to manually claim them — instead the rewards are reflected in the staked balance.

Users wishing to unstake are required to wait a 7-days long cooldown period during which the assets are locked. After the 7-day period is over, the funds can be unlocked and added to the available balance on HyperEVM.

Our integration abstracts away all the cross-layer mechanics. Movement of funds between HyperEVM and HyperCore is fully handled by our infrastructure, ensuring HYPE staking appears like any other yield source within Yield.xyz — standardized with complexities abstracted away.

Pending Actions

Withdraw

After the 7-day cooldown period has passed, users will need to withdraw their unstaked balance using the WITHDRAW pending action to make it available again. You can retrieve the balance available to be withdrawn via our /stake/balances endpoint.

Unlock Locked

If during the staking flow a delegate transaction is to fail or the user has an unstaked balance after the 7-day cooldown period, a pending action will be available on the locked balance that allows users to unlock these tokens. To unlock these tokens, the UNLOCK_LOCKED pending action is available via our /stake/balances endpoint.

Delegate

If during the staking flow a delegate transaction is to fail or the user has a locked balance after the 7-day cooldown period, a pending action will be available on the locked balance that allows users to delegate the tokens to a validator in order to continue earning rewards. To delegate these tokens, the DELEGATE pending action is available via our /stake/balances endpoint.

Considerations

1. There is a 0.03 HYPE minimum requirement when staking via Yield.xyz API. This restriction is not enforced at the protocol level. However, users need to initialize the Hyperliquid account by transferring more than 1 USD-stablecoin worth of any quote token or HYPE from the HyperEVM which is taken as a one time fee.

Preferred Validators And Their Addresses