$30 million in HYPE will be required for each developer to launch prediction markets on Hyperliquid’s HyperCore under a planned upgrade that starts on testnet before any mainnet rollout.
500,000 HYPE stakes will be locked for six months and can be slashed by validator vote if markets are poorly defined, settled incorrectly or left wrongly unsettled for more than a week.
Developers will be able to deploy individual questions without separate validator approval, but only through templates that validators have already approved, keeping rule-setting centralized.
HIP-4, Hyperliquid’s outcome-market framework, went live in May with validator-controlled crypto, macro and sports markets; the new model aims to broaden that lineup while 27 active validators still oversee the system.