Posted August 25, 2025
For the past two years, we’ve been building Kintsu with one mission: to unify fragmented DeFi ecosystems through liquid staking. Our vision has always been bigger than a single chain. It’s about unlocking capital, aligning validators, and creating staking tokens that serve as composable building blocks across DeFi.
Today, we take the first step toward that mission on Hyperliquid with the launch of sHYPE on testnet.
But let’s be clear: this isn’t about choosing one chain over another. Hyperliquid accelerates us. Monad grounds us. Kintsu thrives on both.
Liquid staking is no longer just about unlocking yield. It’s becoming the coordination layer for DeFi, the connective tissue that ties validator incentives, user capital, and protocol growth into one system.
The problem? Most liquid staking today is fragmented by chain. Tokens accrue value in silos, validator sets are gated by whitelists, and governance often drifts away from decentralization.
Kintsu was designed to break this pattern. By expanding across ecosystems while anchoring value to a unified DAO, we ensure that growth in one environment compounds into the other. One system, multiple deployments, shared alignment.
This isn’t multi chain for the sake of it. It’s modular liquid staking, built to unify, not fragment.
Hyperliquid has quickly become one of the most active hubs for on-chain DeFi. With billions in daily trading volume, HIP-3’s thriving builder community, and a native order book driving efficient markets, it offers fertile ground for rapid experimentation and scaling.
By launching sHYPE on Hyperliquid, Kintsu unlocks immediate benefits:
This gives Kintsu the chance to refine its modular design with real liquidity and active users, while expanding our ecosystem reach.
With mainnet targeted for 2025, Kintsu will launch sMON on Day 1, ensuring validators, users, and builders are aligned from the very start.
Both sHYPE and sMON accrue value to the same DAO, governed transparently to support validator inclusion, user incentives, and ecosystem-wide composability. They aren’t competing tokens, they’re two doors into the same house, designed to unify high-performance environments rather than fragment them.
Kintsu isn’t just building another LST. We’re building a coordination layer for DeFi, aligning validator incentives, unlocking staked capital, and creating a base layer of composability across ecosystems.
By expanding to Hyperliquid now, we sharpen our model with speed, scale, and an engaged builder economy. With Monad on the horizon, we anchor that model in decentralization, resilience, and governance credibility.
Together, they form the foundation for the liquid staking standard Kintsu is building.
sHYPE is live. sMON is next. Kintsu is just getting started.
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