Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: $HYPD) is deepening its Hyperliquid (CRYPTO: $HYPE) infrastructure push through a new partnership with Blockdaemon, giving the publicly listed DeFi company an institutional staking partner around one of crypto's fastest-growing trading ecosystems.
The companies said Monday that Blockdaemon will support Hyperion DeFi's Hyperliquid staking operations through the Kinetiq x Hyperion Validator. The setup is aimed at institutional clients looking for staking access, validator reliability and DeFi exposure without relying on lighter-weight infrastructure.
Hyperliquid has become a larger part of the onchain market structure conversation as its perpetual futures and spot order books continue to draw trading activity. The network is built around 70 millisecond block times and a fully onchain central limit order book, with the HyperEVM adding a smart contract layer for decentralized applications.
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For Hyperion DeFi, the deal adds another infrastructure layer to a public-market strategy centred on HYPE exposure, staking yield and onchain utility. The company has positioned itself as the first U.S. publicly listed DeFi company building on Hyperliquid, giving shareholders exposure to the ecosystem through treasury holdings, validator activity and services.
CEO Hyunsu Jung said the partnership is designed to support institutional adoption of Hyperliquid and provide access to native staking yield through validator operations. Blockdaemon founder and CEO Konstantin Richter said the Kinetiq x Hyperion Validator gives Blockdaemon a production-ready path to serve staking demand on the network.
Hyperion DeFi said its broader roadmap includes the HYPE Asset Use Service, private lending and vault infrastructure for institutional clients. Blockdaemon offers a broader infrastructure base, including staking, nodes, APIs, MPC wallet technology, and vault services, and says it secures more than $110 billion in digital assets for over 400 institutions.
The announcement keeps Hyperliquid near the center of the institutional DeFi buildout, where public companies, validators and infrastructure firms are starting to package onchain yield into more familiar access points.
Hyperion DeFi Inc. (NASDAQ: HYPD) is trading at $3.55 U.S. per share.