Hyperliquid opens fast data nodes for infrastructure providers

The Hyperliquid Foundation is making its fast onchain data nodes accessible to professional infrastructure providers. Where direct access was previously reserved for large market players, smaller players can now connect through certified providers for less than $1.000 per month.

Hyperliquid is available at OKX and Bybit.

In short:

• The Hyperliquid Foundation is opening its non-validating node to external infrastructure providers; access previously required staking 10,000 HYPE.
• Providers may sell access for less than $1.000 per month and must guarantee 99.9% availability.
• Preferential treatment of specific clients is prohibited; whistleblowers can receive a reward for reporting violations.

Access no longer reserved for major market makers

Hyperliquid processes enormous volumes of order, transaction and position data every second. Trading programmes that want to receive this information as quickly as possible typically run a so-called non-validating node and connect it to a stable upstream node. The Foundation node sits close to the core validator network, which ensures shorter transmission links and more stable data.

Until recently, direct connection to that node was only possible if you staked 10,000 HYPE and met the Tier 1 market maker conditions, which amounts to more than 0.5% of weighted maker volume over fourteen days. For smaller and medium-sized teams, that threshold was virtually unattainable. The Hyperliquid Foundation is now removing that threshold by admitting professional infrastructure companies as an intermediary.

Strict requirements and ban on preferential treatment

Infrastructure providers wishing to connect to the Foundation node must meet a number of conditions. They must have been active as a provider for at least one year, serve at least 100 clients and be active on at least five different networks or protocols. In addition, no peering or service agreement may have been terminated by another network or foundation for breach of contract in the past three months. The required uptime for the node is 99.9%.

A notable element of the rules is the ban on discriminatory pricing. Providers may not offer any client, such as a market maker, a faster connection than others. The reference price is currently below $1.000 per month and covers compute and bandwidth costs. The node scales automatically with the number of connected peers. Anyone who provides evidence of a violation of the preferential treatment ban, and whose evidence is verified by the Foundation, may qualify for a bug bounty payout.

The Hyperliquid price stands at $56.85 at the time of writing, up 3.5% over the past 24 hours.