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HIP-3 and Markets by Kinetiq with Omnia | Livestream

HIP-3 and Markets by Kinetic with Omnia | Livestream By 0xResearch

Author: Kinetic | Date: October 2023

This summary breaks down how Kinetic is utilizing liquid staking as a distribution wedge to build a user-owned exchange ecosystem on Hyperliquid. It is essential for investors tracking the evolution of decentralized perpetuals and the HIP-3 application layer.

This episode answers:

  • How does KM Hype allow users to co-own a perpetual exchange?
  • Why is risk isolation critical when blending staking with exchange liquidity?
  • What is the strategy for capturing users outside the Crypto Twitter bubble?

Top 3 Ideas

THE STAKING WEDGE

  • Distribution Wedge: Kinetic uses staking as a primary entry point for capital. This creates a massive liquidity base that can be redirected into more complex financial products.
  • The Trojan Horse: Staking provides the necessary building blocks for any DeFi ecosystem. It allows Kinetic to capture 80% market share before launching their own exchange.
  • Efficiency Gains: Using LSTs for exchange liquidity removes the need for complex staking logic rewrites. This speeds up the deployment of new markets while maintaining security.

EXCHANGE SPECIFIC LSTS

  • Revenue Sharing: KM Hype holders receive a guaranteed 10% share of exchange revenue. This aligns user incentives with the long term success of the platform.
  • Risk Isolation: Kinetic segregates general staking risk from exchange execution risk. Users only opt into the specific volatility profiles they find acceptable.

THE BINANCE KILLER

  • Jurisdictional Freedom: Hyperliquid offers portfolio margin and non-custodial trading without the handicaps of centralized entities. This creates a superior product for global retail users.
  • Mobile Distribution: Kinetic plans to target households through mobile interfaces rather than just power users. This expands the total addressable market beyond the current crypto bubble.

Actionable Takeaways

  • The Macro Trend: Vertical Integration. Protocols are moving from single-utility tools to full-stack financial ecosystems that own both the liquidity and the application layer.
  • The Tactical Edge: Monitor HIP-3 auctions. Watch how new exchanges utilize Kinetic's infrastructure to bootstrap liquidity without issuing predatory new tokens.
  • The Bottom Line: Kinetic is building the infrastructure for a post-Binance world where users own the venues they trade on. This matters for your roadmap because user-owned liquidity is the next major phase of DeFi growth.

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A quick shout out to today's sponsor, Katana. We'll hear more from Katana later in today's episode. Nothing said on Xerox Research is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Pokio, Ryan, and our guests may hold positions in the company's funds or projects discussed. All right, welcome back and good morning to another Zerx Research live stream. Myself and Vicio joined today again by Shondaanda Deans. Uh glad to have you back on as well as Omnia uh with or from at Kinetic. Very good. Um how we doing today, guys?

Omnia: Good to be here. Thanks for having me, guys.

Shondaanda: Yeah, thanks for coming on. This is like your fifth time on so I think you've been on more than Sean. So many to go still.

Omnia: Yeah, we just keep on doing them every every so often. We have to update the people.

Ryan: Yeah. Um I guess like to start us off, Omnia, you guys had a very major announcement that was also kind of not particularly public. Like you very much started off Well, you've had two major announcements actually. I guess I don't know how much you want to talk about the TGE, but maybe like is there something you would have done differently with regards to the TGE and the points program now that you like

Omnia: Yeah, that's a good question. Uh quite literally zero. Um I think Kinetic is in the right place at the right time in the right ecosystem, you know, with the right people. Um everything about Kinetic today, I honestly wouldn't change a single thing. U the trajectory is extremely clear. uh the people that are working on it like all 18 contributors uh including ourselves like three founders um yeah I mean it's just really a dream team and everything that's being worked on is just uh of ridiculous proportions and uh the things that we seem to focus on like seem to scale by like 10 to 100x like every time prior to like what the idea by itself was right like and I always talk about how like liquid staking in a vacuum is actually like an extremely extremely boring business um and how I would weep if the largest liquid staking protocol on Hyperlid that was truly native to the ecosystem was simply just that right and ceased to be anything else. So yeah, that really sets the stage for everything that's happening right now and everything that's to come as well. It's uh obviously very ambitious for liquid staking protocol today.

Ryan: Yeah, I want to kind of talk about that a bit because and maybe the other guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but liquid staking is not a particularly attractive business, but you get lots of um capital within your and that that works. Is that how you guys are thinking about it as well where you're like look like liquid staking is the bread and butter and it's what we starting off with, but we're very much like focused on adding multiple businesses on top of this liquid staking product.

Omnia: Yeah. Yeah. Liquid staking for us even since the beginning when we started thinking about building Kinetic last summer so wow about a year and a half ago we always knew that liquid staking could not be the endgame liquid staking is very much a wedge it's it's the distribution arm um on top of the fact that it is very much an extremely necessary and required building block for any DeFi ecosystem we had a deposit last week that was larger than the entire liquid staking ecosystem on Monad for an example Right.

Um, you know, the hybrid VVM ecosystem is very very alive and very well. Um, a lot of capital moving through it. A lot of people running strategies uh with liquid staking tokens already. It's accepted on options desks for example. It's accepted on onchain options protocols. Um so yeah our mission has always been with the liquid staking arms to ensure that Khype is by far and large the most liquid and utilized LST and ultimately the perfect money Lego for hype.

Um an example of where KH could end up next which you know we don't have influence on besides making sure it's a really robust and sound product is perhaps BLP. That could be really interesting. I mean, there's nearly $800 million worth of kh that could be utilized in in BLP without the Hyperlid Labs team having to rewrite some sort of staking logic that allows like stake tokens which would be locked on transfer uh to be used for BLP. So, it only makes sense to use an LST, right? And one that's already done all of the leg work in terms of infrastructure, security, liquidity, etc., rather than like you know try and use I don't know like already natively stick time right because of the fact that it is a blockchain and you have to respect the things you've implemented on that blockchain right like on staking time or transfer windows from spot to or or staking to spot balancers takes seven days on hyperlquid so I very much respect that there are things that I don't know but you know liquid staking token very much like it's not just cutting corners but huge for efficiency uh when with regard to something like BLP so anyway That's just something that comes to mind especially with recent events about things about like BLP coming out which obviously we're not privy to but that's okay. I think we've built everything we need to have done to to make things happen there including a recent hyper core listing of Kh against USDH.

Ryan: Yeah. I I um I want to ask about that thing you mentioned with the Monad stuff. Um this is specifically referring to KM hype, right?

Omnia: Uh no. So like one singular deposit into Khype last week.

Ryan: Oh wow.

Omnia: So yeah, I was like 509,000 hype deposited. Uh KM hype actually like you're right. That's that's even larger than single deposit I was referring to. Um but KM hype with regards to markets was also history in and of itself. It's the first time an exchange related LST with an actually disclosed and guaranteed profit share has ever been created really. Um they started off as like a really small idea where you know you could think of I mean hyperlid obviously sets the stage for like some really really crazy stuff to happen and um a few months ago we started thinking about it like what if with HIP3 and obviously through liquid staking obviously you could effectively open up the ability for an exchange to be co-owned by its users right like wouldn't it be crazy if you know some portion of Binance uh was tradable right like if somebody who really believed in Binance and traded a lot on the exchange, wanted to actually bet on the upside of it, you know, you could, right, and back it and in exchange for that, take whatever proportional ownership you have in that as some sort of revenue or take for it.

And that was essentially what set the stage for what we call XLSTs or exchange specific LSTs. And this is more so designed for the launch platform, which is effectively a launchpad. You can think of it as a pump fund for people who want to launch HIP3 exchanges. um nowhere near the same in terms of like uh frequency given like there's me beam coins and like $20 million they need to raise for an exchange right very very different things but the point being the concept is the same right like you drastically lower the barrier to entry nobody needs to go and build a liquid staking protocol by themselves you can use the battle test and architecture that we've already developed and then it the the work will be on you to come and create a really robust offering for people who decide to back you and in exchange for backing you these people should get upside side in what you're creating, right? This is what KM hype is. This is what we raised for last week and thankfully in an hour and a half and why K&TQ was a really cool part of that was because it was entirely K&TQ gated, right? So if you were not a KTQ holder and even if you had the entirety of the hype yourself, you couldn't just come in and like strongarm your way in. Uh or even if you were a KTQ holder, you couldn't be the only one seating it, right? So in total nearly 500 people seated it and then like 40 or 50 people bought on secondary markets uh which allowed this kind of uh pre uh pre-launch exchange token to be traded which is very interesting. So anyway that is the high level of uh kind of the lore behind what happened and then obviously like what followed.

Ryan: So yeah I guess one so just for the listeners as well as my understanding KM hype you get the deposit and then that is used for the launch product so that KM hype has a completely different risk profile technically to Khype because Khype you find KM hype is from what I understand whatever is like used to launch markets is semi like permal locked but not really right.

Omnia: Yeah, yep. Yep. So, at Kinetic, we have this philosophy of isolating risk, right? Like any traditional company would or like any anybody in their in their right mind, right? Like you would want to segregate the risk between what is a general purpose liquid staking token which is Khype, right? This is like the building block for DeFi. KM hype is not the perfect building block for DeFi, right? you are taking way different risk by staking into KM hype than you would be for KHY or for VK hype for example which is the earn related product right that is a different risk profile than KH so you have the general purpose LST which is KHY you have earn which is represented by what we call VK hype this is hype staking again like nobody's losing hype exposure under the hood it this hype is being deployed by beta into several different protocols like project X felix hyperlend and it is generating further returns right in one specific vault that goes and basically gets exposure on behalf of users right it's a way to diversify your exposure to the hyperlink ecosystem gate exposure to hypervm protocols without having to manage it yourself it's totally passive and then there's KM hype right which is which stands for kinetic markets hype effectively this is still hype obviously completely under the hood you're still earning the native staking yield but similarly to reststaking without all the nonsense that goes into staking.

You are taking your hype and you are essentially associating it with uh or or delegating it if you will to the exchange that kinetic is going to launch which is called markets right the underlying stake will power the exchange again now this is totally separate from the earned product this is totally separate from from the general purpose LST it will power the exchange in a completely isolated environment without exposing anybody who you know connect is the single largest staking account on hyperlid outside of team right? Why should anybody on hyperlquid even if it was 1% or you know 10 basis points uh have any sort of exposure to what happens at markets right if they're just doing regular you know DeFi activities that makes zero sense right and this is the case unfortunately with like you know a rising trend if you will where across the ecosystem there seems to be this blended risk right uh so at kinetic you know we have very clear philosophies around making sure that risk is completely isolated and there there's no need to basically blend uh risk across what should be separate products.

Um that's why you know trap by you know you don't get exposed to certain you know underlying contracts or exposure if you're just depositing into like a checking account right or a regular passive investing account right so it should be similar onchain and obviously with the advantage of you know being able to you know do what you want to have freedom over your own capital but still not get exposed to things that you shouldn't have exposure to if that's not what you opted into. So that's that's the high level philosophy.

Ryan: I think that makes sense. Um I guess one of the actual questions there you go you can ask. I I was just going to ask something about kind of the risk profile of KM hype and like based on my understanding it's not necessarily pegged to one hype and it could uh trade freely right because on one hand you have this downside that the hype is illquid. it's locked because the protocol needs it for the HIP3 markets. But at the same time, there's a upside because in perpetuity earn 10% of the exchange revenue, right? So if people expect that this exchange is going to do really well, it might trade at a premium, but if the exchange doesn't do well, there's a risk that it trades uh below the value, right?

Shondaanda: That's right. That there's liquidity risk and then there's obviously like the execution risk of the exchange. So the the liquidity risk any of the 500ish holders right now could price and trade it at like basically price at a discount, right? So people can come in and actually buy, you know, KM hype at a discount if that was the case, right? Um and then like you said as well, Shondaanda, like people could price the revenues for KM hype much higher and anything else associated with KM hype much higher and then people could buy it from them at a premium or anybody could price it at whatever premium they'd like if there was a willing taker. So that's the idea and that's the duality of KM hype and like kind of the beauty of exchange LST is like all it's it's stakers make up the pricing of know said XLST. Now the interesting part again and what makes KM hype I guess interesting for arbitrageers as well is that all of the hype for KM hype is staked under the hood. Right? So the interesting part about this is that none of the hype is actually being used to finance anything from ticker related auctions or any other sort of expenses. So all of the hype stays there and is not getting put um it's not getting spent the protocol. So kinetic is still purchasing each and every single ticker right and every market and handling all the expenses. It's not like this is like a pool with like a management or performance fee if that makes sense right. So I hope that also makes sense, right? like uh this is one of the dangers where you know a portion of an LST right if like say some other team is building an LST for HIP3 exchange you have to be sure as a staker that they're not using it for other things that you're not comfortable with right which is like financing the ticker auctions which gradually depletes the amount of hype that you have under the hood right like if I go and buy an HIP3 market for a thousand hype and I've raised a million hype then I technically partially unbacked right because some portion of that hype is no longer in possession of the LST. It's been spent as gas, the hybrid of the blockchain, right? So that has been the philosophy with KM hype. All of the hype is there. It's all staked. You could see it all on chain. And you know, at any time should the buffer be filled.

So to give an example mechanically as to what this looks like, there's 500,000 hype required for each type of exchange. As we all know uh what kinetic did with markets essentially is have a 388,888 hype buffer so that people can come and go as they please. So if that buffer is full somebody can come and withdraw uh any amount of that 388,888 and that 500,000 uh is is not able to be withdrawn because it is powering the exchange. At some point in the future Canada governance will be able to decide whether the exchange should continue to live on or not. Um, and the beauty as to why KM hype was gated by KMTQ holders was because the people that are associated with, you know, own coowning the exchange just so happen to be completely aligned with the protocol, right? So, they're one and the same, right? If you are a KM hype holder, you are more than likely because you can technically buy this in secondary two, you are more than likely a K&Q holder. Therefore, there again, you're one and the same, right? Like your hype exposure or some of it is tied to the protocol, you know, managing it on behalf of, you know, markets growth. So you should also be able to vote again in the future on whether you know the exchange ceases to exist or not. And that gives arbitrageers confidence who people again who are obviously interested in having hype exposure and if somebody for for whatever reason prices at a discount will be able to always know they could buy 1k of hype and redeem one plus hype off that in the future because it is earning the staking rewards even if it earns zero money from markets. So yeah, I hope that uh makes more sense out of it.

Ryan: Yeah. No, that makes a lot of sense. Um do you maybe want to get into the philosophy of markets XYZ and what assets you guys are planning on listing? I know that uh Felix is doing equities, Ventual also doing pre-markets. Um but I'm curious what you guys are doing. Are you going to compete with them or kind of offer the same markets?

Omnia: Yeah, it's a good question. I think comp competition is like really relative, right? Like um that was the question for us for five months like if we were going to compete with like existing liquid staking protocols and for us the the approach was completely different. So I I guess naturally you could assume that there will be competition on HIP3 who markets competes with is is up to uh the market entirely. But like the idea is that markets is coming to become you know a beast of its own right. uh in our in our videos we outline some really interesting ideas for markets that will exist. Um but the general philosophy is that it'll be all markets at all hours and all onchain right so you can you can always make of this what you will but the idea being that you can expect the world's biggest markets to be traded on uh the markets platform and this is the importance for cam hype right it's powering the entire existence of the market's offering uh rather than going and sourcing the hype privately or uh you know any other sort of you know I guess you could say methods by which people can source hype for HIV3 um the entire ity of the idea essentially was that all these markets can live on chain and be co-owned by their users right so there's a world just tagging on to what you said as well Sean just that you know there could never be sellers of KM hype or there could be you know such small amount of sellers that only you know a single-digit percentage of uh you know KM hype is in circulation and available for trading right um and these people would be be able to essentially have uh upside in whatever comes with the markets exchange so whether that equities, whether it be FX, compute, uh, energy markets, um, commodities of any kind, you name it, right? It can all technically exist on markets and, uh, you know, the KM hype holders be able to essentially share in the upside of that and not have some sort of, uh, dangling carrot, right? Like you have some sort of revenue that you can use to price KMI or whatever that should be and should scale with the growth of markets as well.

Ryan: One question I have here is who who's doing your um I guess like this is one of the few opportunities I have because Charlie's very quiet and the last time I had a chat with him. He didn't want to exchange at us. So I'm going to ask this and you don't have to answer it if you don't want to. when you're approaching this building out of this markets product. So you're bringing in liquidity and who's doing the because the primary variable here is and Shondaanda you can correct me if I'm wrong but the primary thing here is like you have to choose the asset name and like what market it is um and Oracle how are you guys doing the Oracle are you working with the um how are you guys doing the Oracle side

Omnia: yeah it's a good question so the Oracle provider for markets is KO so KO is an extremely established institutional data provider uh you know provides data to the CBOE CFTC SEC, you know, all the threeletter agencies. Um, and yeah, I I guess has some crossover with crypto too, but the point being that yeah, the focus for markets is real world and institutional, I guess you could say offerings and uh, you know, assets that can be traded. So yeah, KO will be the oracle provider for sure. In terms of who provides liquidity, I think the idea is like the breadth of markets should allow for all types of liquidity providers to essentially have a great time in terms of asset selection. Like that is a huge huge uh point of the offering. Um and we definitely expect to have some institutional liquidity providers uh especially because of the fact that you know the pricing source is expected to be top tier essentially. We've been working on it for a very long time. Um and yeah, ultimately people can actually see like on the markets site like where we raised the 888,000 hype uh some of the the the features as to you know what they can expect uh from you know markets in general and how it'll be priced. So obviously like what won't be made public is some of the formula as to like how things are priced but in general um the high level information that traders will need to have will be publicized for sure.

Ryan: I think that makes sense and when you say um so Felix has USDH Mark trade XY Z is using USDC how are you guys thinking of the quote asset

Omnia: yeah we also stated that the quote asset will be USDH as well yeah it only makes sense right like if we're if we're going to have you know this uh I mean I mean in general like kinetic is built for hyper the good by people on hyper liquid good right so why would we use anything other than an aligned quote asset um competing on the validator operator per side um is something that we noticed probably wasn't the best idea. So therefore it's really just to bring exotic assets to hyperlquid things that don't exist on chain um at least not in the form of like a really efficient perpetual to trade. So yeah, this is uh this is why you know USD was selected because it would also make it the cheapest place to trade all of these equity per um you know commodity ps etc. Like anything that exists on markets it will be the cheapest venue by far trade.

Ryan: Yeah that makes sense. Um last question I have and then Danny actually Danny you can go and I'll just follow up.

Danny: Yeah, I was going to ask I think it's relevant to the discussion here like how are you thinking about kind of distribution or like monetization of the trading activity itself. Like when I look at some of these other like eventuals and some of the other non uh kind of XYZ listings, there's not a lot of activity happening there. Um if you might be competing over potentially some of the same tickers like I see there's kind of maybe you know connection or working with PBP.trade trade like I guess fundamentally how are you thinking about it's it's a competitive space how are you going to get you know volume and trading activity to to your offerings

Omnia: yeah it's very competitive like that is uh you know not inaccurate at all um the the primary difference for markets is that you know what we've realized is that CT is a very very small bubble right um these things need to be super super cheap and accessible for anybody to trade outside of crypto Twitter um and while crypto Twitter clientele, if you will, are like really really valuable to have. They are very much the tip of the iceberg. Um, people seem to forget that PvP is the highest grossing app uh that's developed to builder codes ever essentially probably now neck andneck with Phantom. And the reason they did this is not just because of the pure USD that they generated, but also the fact that they plowed the entire thing into hype and staked it. Um, they've earned, you know, high four digits hype in terms of staking yield now on this. So yeah, I mean these guys they they know distribution very well. We know distribution very well. And the idea would essentially be that you know who we go after in terms of users on markets uh will be those that are really priced out or in inaccessible in terms of or or are in a position where markets of this caliber are inaccessible to them. Uh especially with like the ability to trade a perpetual on them, right? So it's one thing to be able to buy spot which has its own I guess you could say cons uh but we believe that you can make a perpetual at some point way more efficient to trade or hold than a spot. So yeah you know there is there is a line between how much you focus on the same pool of users and then how far out you go outside of that. And I guess you could say you can expect markets by far in collaboration with you know the different partners that we mentioned PvP being you know the core one.

Um yeah you can you can definitely expect us to branch out far far away from purely just CT. Uh it is super capped. There's a huge ceiling and uh again if that that's not you know CT is like usually expected to just trade pure crypto assets. And I think what has been cool to see over the last year or so has been the fact that there's been a lot of bleeding over between like trad assets and crypto in terms of the people that trade both. Um I mean like being in the space since 2017 is the first time I see such convergence between people that are talking about trading you know traditional assets versus crypto assets or both at the same time. So I think what will be really cool to see is like what kind of crossover does come on over but the idea being it's not the target. It's not the end uh it's not the end state in terms of target users. and stay in the target users is obviously putting, you know, markets in the hand of households, right? Uh maybe that leaks the fact that there's going to be a mobile version of markets, but still I think the point being that yeah, like um the ceiling with crypto Twitter audience is very real and not something that we plan to focus on outside of the core users that obviously do come in. So yeah, I hope that helps give a little bit more color as to what some of the direction will look like and why market's not really here to simply compete with um you know any of the existing exchanges. We have a lot of respect for them all and the idea is not to like sit there and like [ __ ] on each other's turf. It's more so just to grow the pie in general. Uh I think if we could bring in net users, which is like the goal by far, it makes Hyperlink a better place. And uh yeah, it's not done for purely altruistic purposes. I mean, the idea is obviously to build a really kick-ass app here. Uh, but the point being that there are a lot of other ways to go about it besides people who are, you know, really interested in trading for like, you know, maybe a couple of reasons as opposed to like actually solving somebody's problem, right? This is probably best for for people who may find it hard to open a Robin Hood account or an interactive broker account or something like that, right? Like that's an example of uh the type of trader that could thrive on markets.

Danny: Yeah, I think that makes sense. Um, one more I guess taking it away from Marcus for a second. Um, you guys, and I think this is expected, um, post points program, you saw a lot of hype leave. Um, you've, I think you made some of it back with KM hype. Um, are you looking to do more and more of these styles of um, programs to bring in new hype stakers? What's the like what's the strategy going forward for that to like question very well and alive.

Omnia: Yeah. Yeah. So, Kinetic today still has close to 80% market share in liquid staking. And I think what we've noticed is that a lot of people are obviously very very defensive when interacting with HyperVm protocols, especially with their forever hype stacks. So in our case it's it's more so a matter of how do we make everyone feel as comfortable as possible staking with kinetic and one of the biggest things has essentially been just making sure that any you know security related concerns are as alieved as they possibly can be. Um, Kinetic has a ridiculous security culture and obviously this is not a a super public thing uh, understandably. But yeah, so Kinetic has been audited six times, right? First of all, which is absolutely massive. Prior to launch, it was four. We just did two other ones to audit the uh, launch platform and also KM Hype. Uh, so one of our largest audit partners, Spearbit, we also run one of the largest uh, bug bounties in the industry for uh, which is $5 million bug bounty. Um and daily we are monitoring you know every single type of submission there is on this and mitigating anything that has that has ever arised. Thankfully um you know there have been zero issues and the idea is to make sure that that is not the case. So a couple things that we're rolling out as well. Um on top of the audit program we've we've worked with Hyper Native for you know monitoring systems for a very long time now. And then on the other side of it is like safe harbor related opt-in which allows anybody who does you know in the event of some sort of unfortunate situation um you know who does like white hat something you know they would get a proportional reward and like no ability to like legally you know go after them. So, so like Kinetic has like put in place a lot of really interesting security redundancies on top of the fact that we have like a massive bug bounty which should deter, you know, a lot of people from acting nefariously. Um, but also encourages people to if they find issues, bring it up to us and get paid accordingly, right? Like that's been a big thing. HyperVM like is very much a quote unquote beta, but you know, we treat this as if we're building on the most established, you know, blockchain in existence, right? Like if this was Ethereum, right? this would kind of be considered like a standard thing, right, for like a really large protocol. So, we're very much like punching above our weight here, right? That's one thing. Um, and very soon people can expect some very very interesting changes on the protocol side that should encourage a lot of stake to flow from hyper core to hyperbm through kinetic. So, again, without saying much here, the point being that yeah, it is something that is still a really core focus for kinetic. Obviously, like the staking component is is massive and it always will be for us. Um and it's now again like the the the next part and like you said like talking about a post points era or post token era. Kpoints still run today. Um you guys may have seen recently or may not but quite a few people have noticed that Kpoints have been going on since November 13th which is the day that uh Kpoints originally ended. So that was really interesting to to reimplement and uh we saw a lot of people really excited about it obviously which is great. Um, and the idea for us now is making sure that a couple things happen, right? Exporting the liquid staking infrastructure and and doing this in a way that is extremely profitable for the kinetic protocol and subsequently the KTQ token holders. Um, and obviously now with KM hype, you know, markets going live and the exchange being, you know, forced to be reckoned with should be super exciting and like an industrial case study to say the least. um you know the staking business takes uh it is still very much front and center but I guess you could say it is like a dualpronged approach right dominating the staking landscape as well as dominating the exchange landscape is is very much going to be a super fun task to undertake and now kinetic can do it without like the quoteunquote overhang of like the uh pre-token state of every protocol essentially on on hyperl but like well beyond hyperlid as well so I hope that makes sense and like gives some color but um yeah It's it's definitely an interesting state of the union and yeah, we couldn't be, you know, more excited to be in this position. Like we honestly like we give very little [ __ ] about macro micro. We just really focus on um you know what it is that we do best which is staking and now uh the exchange related component with markets on top of hyper liquid.

Danny: Yeah, I I think that makes sense. Um, I want to ask a bit more about the HyperVM after this, but first Danny needs to complete his task for the day.

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Ryan: Perfect. Um, I have I was going to ask about the HyperVM unless anybody has any more questions on the LST stuff.

Shondaanda: Yeah, I guess um I have one question more about the tokconomics of uh kinetic. So, I'm wondering how you see the role of the kinetic token. Like I know for markets 10% is earmarked for KM hype, 90% is going to be used for growth initially. Do you see more of that eventually going to the kinetic holders or is it more like they just got whitelist access to the KMI product and more of the value is going to flow to that?

Omnia: Without divulging too much about KDQ specific uh future developments, what we did soft announce was KB1. KB1 is going to be very interesting. you know, having a staked version of the K&Q token uh very much allows connect to do really really interesting stuff in terms of positioning the token as, you know, the very heart of the ecosystem, which I I don't know how anybody could deny uh is is very much already the case. Uh if not shown already by KM hype, you know, the future of product rollouts should be very apparent that KDQ is extremely important in everything it is that we do. Um there's been I had a conversation recently and um I've seen a lot of things happen like across the industry around like uh special differences between like uh tokens and equity and stuff and at kinetic that's never been the case and that never will be the case. The token is everything for every single participant whether it's investors in kinetic which is pretty much the lowest across the industry for liquid staking protocol at seven and a half% sold to investors. Um for contributors, same exact thing that is the only upside essentially every single participant has. Um and then again, obviously the same for the entire community, right? So the KTQ token float was the largest of any liquid staking protocol practically ever. Um for context, uh even above uh GTO at like 150% larger in terms of supply that went through an airdrop. So yeah, I hope this helps to kind of send a message in terms of like where kinetic stands and short-term price action is not something that affects really anybody on our team when we're focused on doing a lot more than just like liquid staking especially. Um an example like going back to like the investor related conversation as well something that was super interesting about like when kinetic race so like I' I've been pretty public about the fact that you know kinetic rays in 2024 you know well before even the launch of hypervm and uh you know well before we went live in July and now well before you know the token itself went live you know it is extremely extremely important like to have the context that the team is looking at this through because otherwise I mean it just it just looks like any other liquid staking protocol. But you know, Kinetic has raised less than $2 million, sold less than 8%, so 7.5 to be specific, of the protocol to investors, and has basically gone on to have essentially the highest, you know, growth to cap table or growth to invested uh raised amount uh ratio out of pretty much any protocol outside of hyper grid. Uh so that in and of itself has been extremely important

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