Hyperliquid Governance Vote Aims To Permanently Sideline $1b...

The proposal seeks a binding social consensus that the funds will never be accessed through future protocol upgrades.

The Hyper Foundation proposed a validator vote to formally recognize HYPE tokens held in the Hyperliquid protocol’s Assistance Fund system address as permanently inaccessible, excluding them from the asset’s circulating and total supply.

According to the foundation, the Assistance Fund is a protocol-level mechanism embedded in the layer-1 network’s execution. It automatically converts trading fees into HYPE tokens and routes them to a designated system address. At the time of writing, the wallet contains about $1 billion in tokens.

The system address was designed without control mechanisms, making the funds irretrievable without a hard fork. “By voting ‘Yes,’ validators agree to treat the Assistance Fund HYPE as burned,” Hyper Foundation wrote.

Native Markets, the issuer of the Hyperliquid-native stablecoin USDH, reminded users that 50% of the stablecoin’s reserve yield is routed to the Assistance Fund and converted into HYPE tokens. “Should this validator vote pass, these contributions will then be formally recognized as burned,” the company wrote.

While the proposal uses the term “burned,” it does not reduce the existing supply. Instead, it formalizes how the fee-derived tokens are treated for governance purposes, reducing ambiguity around Hyper’s effective supply.

The distinction has become more relevant as Hyperliquid’s fee-driven model has been attracting institutional attention.

In a research note covering Hyperliquid-focused digital asset treasuries (DATs), financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald framed Hyperliquid as a protocol that returns nearly all of its fee revenue to tokenholders through automated repurchases.

Cantor estimated that Hyperliquid had generated about $874 million in fees year-to-date (YTD) as of 2025. The company said 99% of protocol fees are routed through the Assistance Fund mechanism to repurchase HYPE.

The company characterized the repurchases as a contributor to a declining circulating supply. However, the Hyper Foundation’s proposal drew a clear line by recognizing that the Assistance Fund balances were never intended to be spendable or recoverable.

Source: CoinTelegraph