The Hyperliquid L1 will support native spot trading, as well as two permissionless standards for native tokens:
HIP-1: deploy native tokens and onchain spot order books
HIP-2: “Hyperliquidity,” a novel mechanism to permanently commit liquidity to a spot order book for HIP-1 tokens. Hyperliquidity strategies run entirely onchain and synergize with users' order book liquidity.
As with perps, the spot order book is entirely onchain. HIP-1 and HIP-2 are steps toward general purpose infrastructure with performant native components.
The first spot launch is . There is no sale and no planned utility for . There are 1 billion total tokens, and this number will never increase. 50% of will be distributed proportionally to points holders. The remaining 50% will be permanently committed as Hyperliquidity on the /USDC pair.
Once thoroughly tested, HIP-1 and HIP-2 will become part of the permissionless infrastructure on the Hyperliquid L1. While HIP-1 assets will be native to the Hyperliquid L1, the standard opens the possibility for bridges from other chains.
is live on testnet, so users can familiarize themselves with how native spot assets work on the Hyperliquid L1. Once testing is complete, will launch on mainnet.
The points snapshot for mainnet has already been taken and will include closed alpha points. The distribution on testnet is different and meant for testing only.