Elysium Mainnet Goes Live on HyperEVM

Kinetiq has launched Elysium on public mainnet, introducing a dedicated execution layer designed around the Hyperliquid ecosystem. According to the official Arbitrum announcement, Elysium is the first dedicated blockchain built with the Arbitrum Platform to settle on HyperEVM, Hyperliquid’s EVM-compatible smart contract environment. The network went live on November 9 and uses HYPE as its native gas asset.

The architecture gives Elysium a different role from HyperEVM itself. Application logic executes on Elysium, while the network settles to HyperEVM and uses Arbitrum AnyTrust for data availability, with full-data posting to HyperEVM as a fallback. Elysium therefore adds execution capacity around Hyperliquid without replacing either HyperEVM or HyperCore. Kinetiq says HYPE can move between HyperEVM and Elysium on a 1:1 basis without requiring a wrapped representation.

Arbitrum Execution Meets Hyperliquid Settlement

Kinetiq configured Elysium around 100-millisecond block times and an execution target of 300 million gas per second, targeting applications such as market-making systems, lending, derivatives and high-frequency trading infrastructure. Those specifications describe the network’s architecture and targeted capacity rather than independently demonstrated production throughput. Arbitrum similarly cautions that block frequency and execution capacity do not measure final settlement or end-to-end trading performance.

The network launches with infrastructure and application support from Alchemy, Conduit, Arbitrum and Uniswap. Uniswap Protocol functionality is available from day one, allowing markets and liquidity pools to be created directly on Elysium. That makes the mainnet more than an empty execution environment, although infrastructure availability should not be confused with demonstrated user adoption or sustained liquidity.

Elysium also arrives as activity around HyperEVM expands beyond applications built directly for Hyperliquid. Pump.fun recently added HyperEVM token trading with USDC, while Hyperliquid’s market infrastructure has already supported substantial activity in products such as its RWA perpetual markets. Elysium extends that ecosystem by giving developers a separate execution environment optimized for applications that need more dedicated blockspace.

HyperCore Integration Still Comes Later

One important component is not live yet. Kinetiq plans a post-launch upgrade that will give Elysium smart contracts native read and write access to HyperCore. Applications are expected to read order-book depth, prices, balances and positions, while authorized trade-only agents could submit orders to users’ HyperCore accounts. For now, those direct HyperCore capabilities remain planned functionality rather than part of the launch configuration.

The model also creates explicit economic links between network usage and ecosystem participants. Kinetiq has committed 25% of Elysium sequencer revenue to builders whose applications generate blockspace demand and 50% to KNTQ buybacks. Those allocations connect future network activity to application incentives and KNTQ economics, but their financial impact will depend on actual sequencer revenue after launch.

Elysium is another example of Arbitrum technology being configured for specialized financial infrastructure rather than used only through Arbitrum One. Robinhood followed a related dedicated-chain approach when its Arbitrum-based public mainnet expanded into tokenized assets and DeFi. Elysium takes the model in a different direction by anchoring settlement inside Hyperliquid’s environment. Its next measurable distinction will come from real application activity, liquidity and blockspace demand rather than the performance parameters available at launch.