Elysium has launched its Hyperliquid-focused layer-2 network as Hypesium, a Telegram trading bot built for the chain, which has drawn promotional posts advertising 1,500 USDT and a token allocation for content creators.
Summary
- Elysium launched Nov. 9, using HYPE for gas and settling transactions to HyperEVM.
- Hypesium’s Starlist campaign advertises cash rewards and 1% of its token supply for creators.
- Kinetiq says half of Elysium’s sequencer revenue will fund purchases of its KNTQ token.
- Promotional posts describe first-block sniping, wallet tracking, and automated exits among Hypesium’s features.
Elysium launches with HYPE gas and KNTQ buybacks
Kinetiq Research announced Elysium’s public mainnet launch on Nov. 9, describing an Ethereum-compatible network built on Arbitrum technology and operated with Conduit.
In its announcement, the company said Elysium settles to HyperEVM and uses HYPE as native gas. It advertised 100-millisecond blocks and an execution target of 300 million gas units per second.
HYPE moves between HyperEVM and Elysium on a one-to-one basis without a wrapper token, according to the release. HyperEVM ERC-20 assets can bridge to the new network permissionlessly.
Half of sequencer revenue will go toward KNTQ buybacks, while 25% is committed to builders whose applications generate demand for blockspace. Developers can use their allocation for liquidity programs, user incentives, or fee rebates.
The launch follows Kinetiq’s earlier Elysium network plans, which crypto.news covered in August. Those plans included directing purchased KNTQ toward burns and assigning the remaining quarter of sequencer fees to the treasury.
Hypesium rewards creators for posts and replies
Starlist’s Hypesium campaign listing describes a competition in which the top 20 creators share 1,500 USDT. Participants ranked 21 through 100 are offered a combined 1% of the Hypesium token supply when the token launches.
The listed cash prizes range from 300 USDT for first place to 35 USDT each for positions 11 through 20.
Creators are instructed to mention Hypesium and publish content explaining its features. Replies count toward the campaign, while copied posts receive one-fifth of the normal STARS score, according to the listing.
One X post from Sajidkhan Khan makes the incentive explicit: “Create content, earn STARS, and climb the leaderboard.”
His post advertises the cash pool and token allocation alongside fast swaps and Telegram sniping. It quotes another account promoting instant execution, position monitoring, and sell limits.
The campaign establishes a financial incentive to publish about Hypesium. It does not establish how much of the discussion comes from contestants or whether rewarded posts caused either name to enter X’s worldwide trends.
Hypesium promotes trading in a pool’s opening block
A separate post from SofiX.eth describes Hypesium as a bot designed specifically for Elysium, claiming the chain has no public mempool.
According to the post, the bot prepares a purchase before a liquidity pool exists and sends the buy when the pool-creation event arrives. The account calls this “first-block execution” and lists deployer snipes, ticker snipes, tracked wallets, and automated exits.
Its accompanying promotional image advertises bridging, trading, and launch sniping through Telegram. The post provides a product description, without transaction records demonstrating execution speed or trading results.
Hypesium’s campaign materials say bot wallets are encrypted and exportable, and advertise a 1% trading fee. They describe transaction simulation and checks intended to identify tokens that cannot be sold.
Trading tools have been expanding around Hyperliquid’s smart-contract environment. Pump.fun previously added HyperEVM token trading using USDC, while HYPE remained the network’s transaction-fee asset.
Kinetiq participated in a separate infrastructure rollout when DoubleZero launched Hyperliquid order-book feeds in September. DoubleZero described that subscription service as supplying market data to trading firms, market makers, and quantitative desks.
US guidance calls for clear promotional disclosures
The Federal Trade Commission’s influencer guidance says endorsements should make financial or other material relationships with a brand obvious to readers.
Financial connections can include benefits beyond cash. The agency says disclosures belong with the endorsement itself, where readers are unlikely to miss them, and should not be buried among hashtags or placed only on a profile page.
For posts published outside the United States, the FTC says US law can apply when an effect on American consumers is reasonably foreseeable. Its guidance identifies “ad” and “sponsored” as examples of clear disclosure language.
