Hyperlane Native Staking Powered by Symbiotic
As the modular stack matures, network design is no longer one-size-fits-all. Hyperlane, a permissionless interoperability framework for bridging, asset issuance, and general message passing, is leaning into this future with a novel security model, and it's being built on Symbiotic.
Hyperlane’s Interchain Security Modules (ISMs) can now leverage staked capital to secure the validator set. Following this approach, Hyperlane has become the first fully operational interoperability protocol to utilize multiple collateral assets while pioneering token staking rewards via Symbiotic vaults.
Staking via Symbiotic to hold stHYPER not only provides economic security to the protocol, but also boosts message sender rewards over time. Stakers benefit from a HYPERstreak multiplier, a rewards boost that grows the longer stHYPER is held.
Here’s what this rollout includes — and why it matters.
Cryptoeconomic Security for Warp Routes
Hyperlane lets developers create their own warp routes — custom messaging lanes for moving assets across chains, secured by validator sets of their choosing. This makes security modular: through Interchain Security Modules (ISMs), developers can configure how messages are verified, whether by using Hyperlane’s default validator set, supplying their own, or combining multiple approaches.
By integrating with Symbiotic, Hyperlane adds a new dimension to this model: shared security underpinned by economic incentives.
$HYPER can now be staked through Symbiotic vaults to secure Hyperlane’s messaging infrastructure. This enables cryptoeconomic guarantees, where stake enforces behavior, not just social coordination. Warp Routes that opt into this security model inherit a set of validators’ credible commitment to uptime, correctness, and liveness.
The Symbiotic vault’s HYPER is delegated to validators contributing to the verification logic within Hyperlane’s default ISMs. Validator selection is based on factors such as operational security standards and a strong track record of performance.
Staking That Starts with Utility
Hyperlane’s rollout of native staking introduces real functionality out of the gate:
- $HYPER staking rewards: $HYPER is the first token to be used as a reward for providing cryptoeconomic guarantees through Symbiotic vaults. Stakers earn directly from their contribution to network security.
- stHYPER: stakers receive stHYPER, a liquid staking token that reflects yield accrual. HYPER stakers, on the first day after TGE, will be able to lock a higher ‘HYPERstreak’ multiplier’ on future message sender rewards.
- Autocompounding from L2s: Users can stake $stHYPER via rollup-native vaults and have rewards automatically restaked to maximize returns. This mechanism is available to any project building with Symbiotic.
On TGE day, users who stake HYPER into the Symbiotic vault immediately secure the maximum hyperstreak multiplier of 1.6x on message sender rewards. This creates a strong incentive to stake early rather than simply holding or selling unstaked HYPER. Early staking contributes to the protocol’s security and ensures participants capture maximum reward potential.
Together, these upgrades mark a shift from speculative staking to staking with actual purpose — providing security and earning rewards for it.
Built for Modularity
Hyperlane currently supports messaging across over 150 chains and 5 VMs, and has already passed over nine million messages. The network’s architecture makes it easy to deploy new routes, spin up new security models, and evolve over time.
Symbiotic matches that design.
By offering a permissionless coordination layer for staking, Symbiotic allows any protocol, including Hyperlane, to move beyond locked-in validator sets or rigid trust assumptions. Security can be composed of native tokens, restaked assets, or both. Rewards and slashing conditions are fully customizable.
Hyperlane’s choice to adopt this model signals the next phase of modular infrastructure, where messaging, security, and economics evolve in parallel.
Getting Started
Hyperlane’s staking is now live. This marks the first use of native staking through Symbiotic — and a new direction for cross-chain infrastructure.
Stakers can begin earning rewards, supporting network security through a single vault interface.
To start earning message rewards and secure the maximum hyperstreak multiplier, stake your $HYPER on day one through the stHYPER vault on Symbiotic:
→ Read Hyperlane’s announcement
About Symbiotic
Symbiotic is a shared security protocol that serves as a thin coordination layer, empowering network builders to control and adapt their own (re)staking implementations in a permissionless manner. By enabling communication between networks and vaults, Symbiotic provides maximum flexibility for stakers and builders alike.
About Hyperlane
Hyperlane is the open standard for permissionless interoperability across blockchains, enabling seamless cross-chain general message passing. It empowers developers with fully open source tooling to connect applications, chains, assets, and messages anywhere across any chain or virtual machine. Its flexible, customizable, and extensible framework allows developers to securely build rich, cross-chain functionality into their applications, and is backed by robust and responsive developer support and an active community of builders.