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Hyperliquid is putting nearly $1 billion worth of HYPE tokens under the spotlight.
The Hyper Foundation has proposed a validator vote to formally recognize HYPE tokens held in the protocol’s Assistance Fund as burned. If approved, the tokens would be excluded from HYPE’s circulating and total supply, even though they are already inaccessible at the protocol level.
A Burn Without a Transaction
This is not a traditional token burn.
The Assistance Fund is a built-in mechanism within Hyperliquid’s layer-1 execution that automatically converts trading fees into HYPE and sends them to a system address. That address was created without a private key, meaning the tokens cannot be accessed or spent unless a hard fork is introduced.
“The Hyper Foundation is proposing a validator vote to formally recognize the Assistance Fund HYPE as burned, removing the tokens permanently fro
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